What is the best book out there to help me understand more about Eastern Othodoxy historically and doctrinally, and why the Catholic Church is right, historically and doctrinally?
I want something that would strengthen my reason and faith in my conversation with the Orthodox and help me to answer them as to history
Thanks,
Pat
HAPPY READING!!!
J.M. Hussey, The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, Oxford History of the Christian Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986). A fine survey of Byzantine history and theology. It grapples with a range of key issues: the iconoclastic controversy, the Great Schism, and the Crusades.
Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon, and Robin Cormack, eds., Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Leading contemporary Byzantine scholars here bring together the fruits of recent research. The place to start one.
John Binns, An Introduction to Christian Orthodox Churches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Henry Chadwick, East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic Times Until the Council of Florence, Oxford History of the Christian Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Robin Cormack, Byzantine Art, Oxford History of Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Jonathan Harris, End of Byzantium (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
Judith Herrin, Women in Purple: Rules of Medieval Byzantium (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
Romilly Jenkins, Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries, A.D. 610-1071, Medieval Reprints for Teaching 8 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991).
Alexander P. Kazhdan et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, 3 vol. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Derek Krueger, Byzantine Christianity, A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 3 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006).
Michael Maas, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian Cambridge Companions to Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
John Meyendorff, Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: the Church, 450-680 (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir Seminary Press, 1989).
Aidan Nichols, Rome and the Eastern Churches: A Study in Schism (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992).
John Julius Norwich, Byzantium: The Early Centuries (New York: Knopf, 1988).
John Julius Norwich, Byzantium: The Apogee (New York: Knopf, 1992).
Lyn Rodley, Byzantine Art and Architecture: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Steven Runciman, The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the XIth and XIIth Centuries (Oxford, 1953). Dated, but a classic.
Steven Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 (reprint of 1965 edition: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Alice-Mary M. Talbot, Byzantine Defenders of Images: Eight Saints’ Lives in English Translation (Dumbarton Oaks, 1998).
Warren Treadgold, A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1997).
Mark Whittow, The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
