Announcing the Library's First Release of Orthodox Literature in Review

An Index of Book Reviews as seen in Orthodox Church journals

This is an Index of Book Reviews appearing in journals published by various organizations in the Orthodox Church.  The Index includes current and defunct journals, from the 1950s to the present.  The Index does not present full text of any of the reviews.  It is the task of the user to obtain the journal in which the review appeared in order to read the review/s.  The Diocesan Library houses many of the journals queried for this Index.

A list of journals and the individual issues queried (regardless of whether reviews appeared in the issue) for this Index can be checked by clicking on the appropriate tab at the bottom of the page in the Index.  The notation “Brief note” following the title of the book reviewed indicates a review of one or a few short paragraphs in length.

This Index is an Excel file and can be searched by using the “Find and Select” command at the top right side of the page.  The Index is alphabetical by title of the book reviewed.  For each title entry, the author of the book is given along with the name of the reviewer, and information on where the review appeared. 

This Index is almost three years in development.  It began because of a need expressed by clergy at the 2009 Eastern American Diocesan Meeting in Jackson, NJ who needed more access to book reviews of Orthodox materials.  We wish to thank Mary Ardrey, at the time a parishioner of All Saints of North America Church in Middlebrook, VA, who took on this project, set up the database for it and input the first one thousand entries.  Without her work, this Index would not have appeared. 

The Diocesan Library expects to release subsequent updates to include additional journals as they become available to the Library staff for query.  We suggest users contact the Diocesan Library first if a review is needed.

Donations to the Diocesan Library of Orthodox journals in any language are welcome.  Please contact us if you wish to make a donation.

This index provides title, author and subject access to the journal Life Transfigured, published by Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Ellwood City, PA.  The index is arranged alphabetically by subject followed by title of article, author (when known), and information concerning in which issue the article appeared.  The index provides indexing for all issues of the journal dating from 1984 (Vol. 16, no. 1) through the current issue, Vol. 43 (2011).   

The index is presented as an Excel file and can be searched using the “Find and Select” command at the top right side of the screen in the index. 

This index is the work of Judy Terry, a very dedicated parish librarian at St. John’s Orthodox Church in Memphis, TN, who deserves all the credit for inspiring us to get busy providing indices to Orthodox periodicals.  The role of the Diocesan Library in this project is as editor and then indexer of the issues of Life Transfigured which St. John’s library does not own.  Without Judy’s kick off work on this project, this Index would not have appeared on our Web site in its present form.

We expect to complete the indexing of Volumes 1-15 as issues of the journal become available to us.