Glory Be to Jesus Christ! Glory Be Forever!
In the hopes that posting in the General Forum will help generate all the more interest in an Eastern Christian Studies Collection to help fill that awful gap, I reproduce here, with a couple of additions to the Suggested Title List, a previous posting in the Suggestions Forum which has already gathered some interest:
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May the Grace and Peace of Jesus be with everyone on Logos Forums!
I am pleased that my Logos resource suggestion for the critical edition Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, edited by Norman P. Tanner, was endorsed by some of the Logos Forum MVPs as "a resource that belongs in Logos," and that several people heartily agreed with my suggestion that Johannes Quasten’s Patrology would make "a superb resource."
I do not know how long it may take for such Forum interest in my suggestions to actually materialize into a Pre-Pub offering of these works (which I am sure would find buyers enough to produce these high-quality and highly sought after works). However, emboldened by that interest, I here wish to suggest my own personal "wish list" for several small titles related to Eastern Christian Studies, which is a greatly neglected area among Logos titles.
I admit my particular interest at this time comes from being invited to take my Ph.D. at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute for Eastern Christian Studies (MASI), but I hope that Logos will find in my suggestion an easy way to start publishing more books on Eastern Christianity, broadening Logos’ horizons eastwards, since these are all small books that would be easy to produce, compared to Patrology or Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils.
Western Christianity’s Roman Catholicism and Protestantism has dominated the history of Christianity and of theology largely because Eastern Christianity (Catholic and Orthodox) spent most of history defending itself from or living under Muslim conquest. Its non-Western but unshakeably orthodox (and deeply spiritual) approach to and perspectives on the Christian faith add a tremendous amount to current discussions on Christian theology, unity and ecumenism. Logos users would be greatly enriched by more offerings in Logos from an Eastern Christian perspective which puts many of the Western Christian disputes or discussions in an entirely new light. Although many of the Eastern Early Church Fathers theological works are well-represented in current Logos resources, especially the 38-Volume Early Church Fathers collection, these works lack the context of Eastern Christian worship and spiritual life from ancient to modern times which these books I suggest would help provide, enriching the usefulness of those Early Eastern theological works already available in Logos.
So, without further ado, here is my current "Eastern Christian Studies Collection Wish List" (everyone feel free to add more suggestions):
The Christian Churches of the East, Volumes I and II. Donald Attwater.
The Orthodox Church (1993 Update). Kallistos (Timothy) Ware.
The Orthodox Way. Kallistos (Timothy) Ware.
These Are My Rites: A Brief History of the Eastern Rites of Christianity. Edward E. Finn.
The Uniate Eastern Churches: The Byzantine Rite in Italy, Sicily, Syria and Egypt. Adrian Fortescue.
Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism: The 14th Century Apologia of Demetrios Kydones for Unity With Rome. James Likoudis.
The Eastern Catholic Churches: An Introduction to Their Worship and Spirituality. Joan L. Roccasalvo.
After 900 Years: The Background of the Schism Between the Eastern and Western Churches. Yves Congar.
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. Vladimir Lossky.
The Byzantine Rite: A Short History. Robert F. Taft.
