vol. 52, 1-2 (2011)

In this fssue:

Nicholas Denysenko on Baptismal Themesin the Byzantine Blessing of Waters on Theophany

Michael Plekon on Eastern Elementsin Kierkegaard's Eighteen upbuilding Discourses

Richard Rymarz on ukrainian Greco-catholicsat World Youth Day

Robert Haddad on the Jilioque

Articles and Reviews by:

sebastian Brock, Daniel Galadza. chris Hann, John-paul Himka,David Kennedy, Emma Loosley, Judith Deutsch Kornblatto

vincenzo Poggio Robert slesinski, and others.

A Journal of Eastern Christian StudiesRevue des dtudes de l'Orient chrdtien

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Book Reviews

B. ter Haar Romeny, ed' Religious Origins of Nations?

The Christian Communities of the Middle East

(Sebastian P. Brock) """"""""'125

A. Edward Siecienski, The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal

ControversY r ra(Robert M. Haddad) """"""

BarbaraSkinner,TheWesternFrontoftheEasternChurch:(Jniate ond orthodox conflict in Eightteenth-century Poland,

(Jkraine, Belarus, and Russia i an(John-Paul Himka) "'L)L

JonathanRiley-Smith,TheCrusades,Christianity,andlslam(John Bequette) 116

ThomasMathews,Byzantium:FromAntiquitytotheRe-naissance(Emma Loosley).j.'...""""' """'139

Douglas M. Koskela, Ecclesiality and Ecumenism:

Yves Congar and the Road to [Jnity 1^1(Catherine E. Clifford) """"""

Anna Lisa Cron e, Eros and Creativity in Russion Religious

Renewal: The Philosophers and the Freudians

(Judith Deutsch Kornblatt) """"""" """"' 145

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textbook that still has something to offer the specialist.

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on the market still adhere to a chronological survey linking

movementstoimperialdynastiesanddebatingthecentrever.sus periphery dicilotomy. Mathews is clear that his agenda is

one of inclusivity and of discouraging a privileging of cosmo-

politan culture or., that at the iringes of the empire. ln a

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