Book Reviews Archives • Orthodox Life

An Athos Beyond Athos: The Spiritual Commonwealth of the Holy Mountain

October 1, 2018

by Reader Nicholas Chapman A review of: Speake, Graham. A History of the Athonite Commonwealth: The Spiritual and Cultural Diaspora of Mount Athos (Cambridge University Press). 294 pp. • $39.95 • Paperback •... Read More...

Fresco from Kariye Camii, Anastasis - showing Christ and the resurrection of Adam and Eve

Man, The Target of God: A Short Review

June 8, 2017

Book Reviews

A review of Man, The Target of God (Mount Thabor Publishing). 272 pp. • $19.95 • Paperback • ISBN: 9781780747552

Misappropriating “Brother-Making”

May 13, 2017

Book Reviews, Contemporary Issues

In light of another recent attempt to read contemporary mores into ancient Byzantine rites, we offer to our readers this review of a study rooted in true scholarship -- Claudia Rapp's Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Painting titled "Silence" by Mikhail Nesterov

A Modern Gateway to the Lives of Saints

February 17, 2017

Book Reviews

by Reader Nicholas Kotar  A review of Laurus, by Evgenii Vodolazkin (Oneworld Publications, 2016). 352 pp., $24.99. Hardcover ISBN: 9781780747552 One of the more common words of advice we hear from our priest... Read More...