The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church

The College is pleased to announce that Dr Andrew Mellas (Senior Lecturer in Church History and Liturgical Studies) has signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to edit The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church. This forthcoming volume will feature more than 35 chapters authored by scholars from around the world, exploring the intricate dimensions of the Church in Byzantium—its emergence, theology, art and liturgy—and its afterlife, in captivity and in the modern world. The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church will serve as a resource for scholars, a companion for students and an introduction for the wider community to this fascinating chapter in the history of Christianity. It will explore how the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church” was multifaceted and multivocal: a canonical and conciliar institution, the mystical embodiment of Christ, the wellspring of theology, the ark of salvation and the liturgical world of the Orthodox.