Eastern Orthodox Christianity : the essential texts / Bryn Geffert and Theofanis G. Stavrou.

By:

Geffert, Bryn, 1967- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Stavrou, Theofanis G, 1934- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 447 pages) : mapContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300220728
0300220723

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eastern Orthodox Christianity.DDC classification:

281.909 23

LOC classification:

BX220

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Contents:

pt. 1. Origins and metamorphoses. Beginnings, scripture, and patristics -- New sect -- New church : Constantine and Constantinople -- Incarnational theology and Arian controversies -- Reaction -- Trinitarian debates -- Priests and bishops -- Early monasticism -- Christianity and the Byzantine state -- Holy fools -- Eastern trends in Christian theology -- Marriage and women in the early church -- Holy women -- pt. 2. Growth and schisms. Holy objects -- Missions to the north : Balkans and Rus' -- Iconoclastic controversy -- Hesychasm -- Great Schism -- Rise of Islam and Turkish expansion -- Rise of the Moscow Patriarchate -- pt. 3. Modernity and upheavals. Byzantine rite Catholics -- Peter the Great's reorientation of Russian Orthodoxy -- Engaging the West through creeds -- Popular piety and popular practices -- Orthodoxy under Ottoman rule -- The Greek revolution and Orthodox nationalism -- New thinking and church reform -- pt. 4. Revolutions and reevaluations. Russian revolution -- Soviet propaganda -- Church under Stalin -- Orthodoxy and ecumenism -- Women's ordination -- Orthodox nationalism and fundamentalism.

Summary: Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology or religious history, this essential, one-of-a-kind work frames, explores, and interprets Eastern Orthodoxy through the use of primary sources and documents. Lively introductions and short narratives that touch on anthropology, art, law, literature, music, politics, women's studies, and a host of other areas are woven together to provide a coherent and fascinating history of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.

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Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology or religious history, this essential, one-of-a-kind work frames, explores, and interprets Eastern Orthodoxy through the use of primary sources and documents. Lively introductions and short narratives that touch on anthropology, art, law, literature, music, politics, women's studies, and a host of other areas are woven together to provide a coherent and fascinating history of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.

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