General

Intro

• Timothy Ware. The Orthodox Church; The Orthodox Way. 

• Michael Shanbour. Know the Faith: A Handbook for Orthodox Christians and Inquirers.

• Frederica Mathewes-Green. Welcome to the Orthodox Church; Two Views of the Cross: Orthodoxy and the West.

• Andrew Stephen Damick. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape; Arise O God: The Gospel of Christ’s Defeat of Demons, Sin, and Death.

• Stephen De Young. The Religion of the Apostles; Saint Paul the Pharisee: Jewish Apostle to All Nations.

• Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou. Thinking Orthodox: Understanding and Acquiring the Orthodox Christian Mind; The Crucifixion of the King of Glory: The Amazing History and Sublime Mystery of the Passion.

• Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy.
  
  

Advanced

• Vladimir Lossky. Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church.

• Michael Pomazansky. Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: A Concise Exposition.
  Seraphim Rose. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future; Nihilism; The Soul After Death.

• Fr. Dimitru Staniloae. The Experience of God: Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, Vol. I ; Orthodox Dogmatics: World, Creation & Deification, Vol. II.

• Dr. Joseph P. Farrell. God, History and Dialectic 4 Vols.
  Ed. Athanasopoulos. Divine Essence and Divine Energies. 

• Fr. Georges Florovsky. Collected Works

• Georgios Mantzaridis. The Deification of Man: St. Gregory Panamas & the Orthodox Tradition 

• Fr. Peter Heers. The Ecclesiological Renovation of Vatican II.

• Panayiotis Nellas. Deification in Christ: Orthodox Perspectives on the Nature of the Human Person.
  
  

Orthodoxy on Catholicism & Protestants

Advanced

• Michael Whelton, Two Paths: Orthodoxy & Catholicism

• Dr. Philip Sherrard. Greek East and Latin West; From Theology to Philosophy in the Latin West; Church, Papacy, Schism.

• Josiah Trenham. Rock and Sand: An Orthodox Appraisal of the Protestant Reformers and Their Teachings

• Bradley Nassif. The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church (2021).

• Bradley Nassif. The Reformation, Viewed from the East. Christianity Today Journal 

• Paul Hacker. Faith in Luther (2017).

• Father John Whiteford. Sola Scriptura – In the Vanity of Their Minds (2021).

• Fr. Panayiotis Papageorgiou. The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox East: A Historical Survey and Study of the Communications between the Reformers and the Patriarchs Joasaph II and Jeremias II (2017).

• Gundry, et. al. Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism

• Debate:  Seraphim Hamilton vs Anthony Rogers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voVFbWhWofg&list=PLwH-gfY9g41h16tvBOLcJtni0fiClYf7O&index=42

• Orthodox Resources for Reformed: http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/inq_reformed.aspx

• Perry Robinson. https://energeticprocession.wordpress.com/
  
  

Protestants on Orthodoxy

Advanced

• Robert Letham. Through Western Eyes (2007).

• Joshua Schooping. Disillusioned: Why I Left the Eastern Orthodox Priesthood and Church (2022). 

• Joshua Schooping. Of Rock and Sand: A Critique of Josiah Trenham’s Appraisal of Protestantism (2021). thereformedninja.blogspot.com/2021/07/of-rock-and-sand-critique-of-josiah.html

• Joshua Schooping. What is the Gospel According to the Eastern Orthodox Church? https://thereformedninja.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-gospel-according-to-eastern.html [he has many other short blog posts on his website]

• Daniel Clendenin. Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective (2003); Eastern Orthodox Theology : A Contemporary Reader (1995). [not a critical interaction, really just an examination of EO beliefs and practice]

• Daniel Clendenin. Partakers of Divinity: The Orthodox Doctrine of Theosis. JETS 37/3 (September 1994) 365-379. https://etsjets.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/files_JETS-PDFs_37_37-3_JETS_37-3_365-379_Clendenin.pdf

• Daniel Clendenin. Why I'm Not Orthodox. Christianity Today Journal

• J. B. Aitken. Towards a Western Trinity (2015). https://tentsofshem.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/towards-a-western-trinity/

• United Reformed Church. Report of the Committee Appointed by URCNA Classis SWUS to Study Eastern Orthodoxy. https://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4-eastern-orthodoxy-study-committee-report.pdf

• Lawrence W. Carrino. Coming Home?: Evangelical Issues for the Eastern Orthodox, Orthodox Conference on Evangelism. https://christiantruth.com/articles/orthodoxycominghome/

• Lawrence W. Carrino. Just Say No: An Evangelical Assessment of Eastern Apophaticism, Orthodox Conference on Evangelism. https://christiantruth.com/articles/orthodoxyapophaticism/

• Gavin Ortlund Youtube; What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church (2024).

• Jordan B. Cooper Youtube

• Randall H. Balmer. Sola Scriptura: The Protestant Reformation and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Trinity Journal, 3:1 (Spring 1982)  https://www.galaxie.com/article/trinj03-1-04

• CURC. Searching for the Historic Christian Church: The Allure of Eastern Orthodoxy.

• Harold O. J. Brown. Eastern Orthodoxy: Christian History Interview – An Evangelical Appraisal. https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/eastern-orthodoxy-interview-an-evangelical-appraisal

• Jack Kinneer. A Calvinist Looks at Orthodoxy.  [I found this really lacking in analysis, but he graduated from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary]

• Fr. Christopher Little. Dr. Bradley Nassif on "Reclaiming the Gospel" in the Orthodox Church: A Lesson for Anglicans. oldjamestownchurch.com/blog/2012/8/18/dr-bradley-nassif-on-reclaiming-the-gospel-in-the-orthodox-c.html

• J. B. Aitken. Jay Dyer rebutted on refuting Protestantism (2020). https://tentsofshem.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/day-jyer-rebutted-on-refuting-protestantism/
  
  

Tradition

Advanced

• Jaroslav Pelikan. The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1983).

• Heiko Oberman. Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought, pp. 55 (1967); Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism (2000).

• Michael Horton. The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way, pp. 186-187 (2011).

• Georges Florovsky. Bible, Church, Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View (2022).

• Martin Chemnitz. Examination of the Council of Trent: Part I, pp. 219-307 (1986).

• Alister McGracth. Intellectual Origins of European Reformation, pp. 141-148 (1987).

• Keith Mathison. The Shape of Sola Scriptura, pp. 19-81 (2001).