Jan 12, 2012

Good news! Holy Transfiguraton Monastery has published a new edition of The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian. I’d like to describe the differences between the two editions...

May 4, 2011

I have just gotten my hands on a copy of the new Psalter published by Holy Trinity Monastery: A Psalter for Prayer, edited by David James. The translation is based on the Coverdale Psalter...

Feb 23, 2011

I'm pleasantly surprised by this book. From excerpts I knew she would be discussing the grey zone between liturgical, sacramental, material Christian blessings and prayers, and frankly pagan magical beliefs.

Dec 25, 2010

The first chapter could be used as a final exam in a Western Civilization class. Eco is an astonishingly literate man. I read about a third of the book; the plot was slow-moving and the characters artificial, but Eco's fascinating prose kept me interested longer than the story did.

Dec 15, 2010

Peter Leithart’s latest book is a stunning work of scholarship on a closely related collection of issues that are among the most important in Christianity: the life of Constantine, the meaning of Constantinianism, and the radical transformation of the world that took place while he was Emperor.

Dec 20, 2009

In some ways, [Justinian I] is the most interesting of them all, but also the most contradictory. Here is a Roman emperor who never set foot in Italy; a great conqueror – the greatest since Julius Caesar – who never led troops in the field; the most powerful man in the world, and one of its most paranoid; the richest and one of the most abstemious - he appears to have lived largely on greens and lemon juice.

Jan 21, 2009

I enjoyed the first two-thirds of this book. It's a slightly-futuristic pulp-fiction tale, with likeable characters and (as always) Gene Wolfe's delightfully dry voice.

Jan 13, 2008

There are many, many ancient Christian texts that are fully orthodox: biographies, commentaries, letters, sermons, debates with non-believers… These works got “lost” mostly because we forgot them—our “family memory” fades after a few decades or centuries. Contemporary Western Christians have a bad case of spiritual amnesia. I’m hoping to put a few of the more appealing and worthy works back on the shelf...

Oct 9, 2007

Teach Yourself Nepali by Michael Hutt, Abhi Subedi 12 used & new available from...