An Introduction to the Christian Orthodox Churches.(Book Review)

From: The Christian Century | Date: February 8, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By John Binns. Cambridge University Press, 270 pp., $60.00; paperback, $21.00.

ONLY A FEW decades ago there were relatively few good sources of information about the Eastern Orthodox Church, but a remarkable publishing surge has now made many fine books available. Though the best single introduction remains The Orthodox Church, by Timothy Ware (now Bishop Kallistos), John Binns's solid work is among the good ones. Binns is vicar at Great St. Mary's Church in Cambridge, and vice-chairman of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, a group dedicated to dialogue between ...

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