Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko

Christianity has its origins in the Middle East. This is common knowledge. Until recently, that was the most anyone, interviewed on the street, could say. The idea that that early Church was mostly Arabic in origin is a new and radical idea to many people. The history of those Arab Christians is only now coming into print in the English speaking, Western world. "Arab Orthodoxy" is the translation of a Russian book published several years back. It is an excellent and detailed study of early under the Ottomans. It is the type of book that one does not rush through. There is a great deal of information that must be read and mulled over. Hopefully this book will lead to others that focus on earlier periods when the Byzantine Empire was flourishing.… (mais)