Book Review: Politik und Gesellschaft im Kaukasus: Eine unruhige Region zwischen Tradition und Transformation

A review of Olaf Leiße, editor, Politik und Gesellschaft im Kaukasus: Eine unruhige Region zwischen Tradition und Transformation. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, 2019. x, 490 pages 978-3-658-26373-7; 978-3-658-26374-4 (eBook

Book Review: The Victory of the Cross: Salvation in Eastern Orthodoxy

The Victory of the Cross: Salvation in Eastern Orthodoxy is the latest book by James R. Payton, Jr., emeritus professor of history at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. His previous books include Light from the Christian East: An Introduction to the Orthodox Tradition. He also edited A Patristic Treasure: Early Church Wisdom for Today

Book Review: Orthodox Christianity and the Politics of Transition: Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia

A review of Tornike Metreveli, Orthodox Christianity and the Politics of Transition: Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia. London and New York: Routledge. xii, 181 pages. ISBN: 978-0-367-42007-9 (hbk.

Book Review: A Short History of the Georgian Church [Sakʻartʻvelos eklesiis mokle istoria]

Metropolitan Archbishop Anania Japaridze (1949-present) is a member of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Georgia and has served as a bishop in that church since 1991. He has published several books, mainly on the history of the Orthodox Church in Georgia, but also books on how Georgians have been converted to other Christian denominations or religions, and, thereby “converted” to other ethnicities. The thesis of one such book is that Georgian converts to Islam in the northwest part of historical Georgian territories lost their Georgian language and national identity and became Abkhazians. (Apʻxazetʻi: kʻartʻveltʻa gaapʻxazeba = Abkhazia: Georgians becoming Abkhazian) His history writing is not critical and tends to be what Professor Robert Thomson (1934-2018), who wrote extensively about Christianity in the South Caucasus, referred to as “received history,” i.e., history that tends to repeat, in this case, what the institutional church has passed down and that uses sources that have not been critically assessed

Book Review: Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations: The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy, by Bremer, Brüning, and Kizenko

A review of Thomas Bremer, Alfons Brüning, and Nadieszda Kizenko (eds). Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations: The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy. Peter Lang, 2022. ISBN: 978363188699