Nicolaidis E. Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 288 p. Since the emergence of the history of science as an independent discipline, the attention of historians and philosophers has been focused on the events that took place in Western Europe in the XVI-XVIII centuries. Science was seen as a kind of Western enterprise that emerged from the walls of medieval universities and either rejected Christian thought, or, on the contrary, was fertilized by it. Historical material from other cultures was used only insofar as it could show why the scientific project was developed in Western Europe, and not, say, in the countries of the Far East, which, as is known, for a long time did not lag behind the West in technological terms. The changes that took place in the history of science in the 70s of the XX century not only changed the perception of historians about the development of science, but also drew their attention to the specifics of the existence of scientific knowledge in countries outside of Western Europe. The monograph of the Greek scholar Euphemius Nikolaidis is one of the first serious attempts to create a coherent and holistic narrative about the history of the relationship between science and religion in the Russian-glorious East, starting with the work of Philo of Alexandria (25 BC - 50 AD) and ending with the present. It is quite obvious that on the space of more than two hundred pages it is impossible to present a complete history of the relationship between Orthodoxy and scientific ideas, as the author readily admits. The purpose of his work is to provide a synoptic overview of the events that characterize these relations, using the example of sequentially arranged "cases", and putting them in the contexts of political history, the history of science, and the history of religion. The author draws on evidence from various branches of historical knowledge, and ... Read more