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Bodies Like Bright Stars
Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia
Inbunden, 2009
599 kr
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While Russian Orthodox theologians celebrated saints as paragons of virtue and piety whose lives were to be emulated in the search for salvation, ordinary believers routinely sought the assistance of the holy dead for commonplace and earthly matters. The Orthodox faithful were more likely to pray …
Spiritual Elders
Charisma and Tradition in Russian Orthodoxy
Av Irina Paert
Inbunden, 2010
570 kr
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Spiritual elders (startsy) are a quintessential part of Russian Orthodox spirituality, yet scholars have given relatively little focus to them. Elders whose authority came not from their position within institutional church but from their reputation for personal holiness were mediating agents …
Saint Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of the Russian Identity
Inbunden, 2010
627 kr
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When Sergius of Radonezh founded a monastery near Moscow, his example spawned a movement of monastic foundations throughout Russia. Within three decades of his death in 1392, Sergius was recognized as a saint, and by 1450 many considered him the intercessor for the Russian land who freed its people …
Orthodox Russia in Crisis
Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles
Inbunden, 2012
683 kr
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A pivotal period in Russian history, the Time of Troubles in the early seventeenth century has taken on new resonance in the country's post-Soviet search for new national narratives. The historical role of the Orthodox Church has emerged as a key theme in contemporary remembrances of this time—but …
Primacy in the Church from Vatican I to Vatican II
An Orthodox Perspective
Inbunden, 2013
514 kr
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The primacy of the bishop of Rome, the pope, as it was finally shaped in the Middle Ages and later defined by Vatican I and II has been one of the thorniest issues in the history of the Western and Eastern Churches. This issue was a primary cause of the division between the two Churches and the …
Slavic Letters of St. Jerome
The History of the Legend and Its Legacy, or, How the Translator of the Vulgate Became an Apostle of the Slavs
Inbunden, 2014
697 kr
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The Slavic Letters of St. Jerome is the first book-length study of the medieval legend that Church Father and biblical translator St. Jerome was a Slav who invented the Slavic (Glagolitic) alphabet and Roman Slavonic rite. Julia Verkholantsev locates the roots of this belief among the Latin clergy …
Old Believers in a Changing World
Inbunden, 2011
627 kr
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This important collection of essays by a pioneer in the field focuses on the history and culture of a conservative religious tradition whose adherents have fought to preserve their beliefs and practices from the seventeenth century through today. Old Belief had its origins in a protest against …
Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace
American Conversions to Orthodox Christianity
Av Amy Slagle
Häftad, 2011
387 kr
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Like many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in what scholars today refer to as the "spiritual marketplace" or quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice-making that marks the post-World War II American religious landscape.In this …
Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700
An Anthology of Sources
Av Samuel Noble, Alexander Treiger
Häftad, 2014
514 kr
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All of the texts chosen for this volume are interesting in their own right, but the collection of these sources into a single volume, with helpful introductions and bibliographies, makes this book an invaluable resource for the study of Arabic Christianity and, indeed, the history of Christianity …
Russia's Uncommon Prophet
Father Aleksandr Men and His Times
Häftad, 2016
576 kr
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This lucidly written biography of Aleksandr Men examines the familial and social context from which Men developed as a Russian Orthodox priest. Wallace Daniel presents a different picture of Russia and the Orthodox Church than the stereotypes found in much of the popular literature. Men offered an …
True Significance of Sacred Tradition and Its Great Worth, by St. Raphael M. Hawaweeny
A Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Response to Roman Catholic and Protestant Missionaries in the East
Av St. Raphael M. Hawaweeny, Patrick Demetrios Viscuso
Inbunden, 2017
768 kr
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Never before published, the theological thesis of St. Raphael Hawaweeny (1860–1915) is a fascinating work that shows the intersection of Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy in the late nineteenth century. Canonized by the Orthodox Church in 2000, St. Raphael was the first …
Dangerous God
Christianity and the Soviet Experiment
Häftad, 2017
542 kr
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At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and …
Image of Christ in Russian Literature
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak
Av John Givens
Inbunden, 2018
1887 kr
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Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth …
Greek Orthodox Church in America
A Modern History
Inbunden, 2020
1641 kr
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In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running …
Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy
France and Russia, 1848–1870
Inbunden, 2020
725 kr
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Focusing on the period between the revolutions of 1848-1849 and the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy explores the circumstances under which westerners, concerned about the fate of the papacy, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, and Russian imperial power, began to …
Greek Orthodox Church in America
A Modern History
Häftad, 2020
387 kr
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In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running …
Image of Christ in Russian Literature
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak
Av John Givens
Häftad, 2021
478 kr
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Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth …
Philosophy of the Name
Inbunden, 2022
718 kr
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This is the first English translation, by Thomas Allan Smith, of Philosophy of the Name (Filosofiia imeni). Sergii Bulgakov (1871–1944) wrote the book in response to a theological controversy that erupted in Russia just before the outbreak of World War I. Bulgakov develops a philosophy of language …
Orthodox Sisters
Religion, Community, and the Challenge of Modernity in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Inbunden, 2024
796 kr
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Orthodox Sisters explores the relationship between women, religion, and social, cultural, and economic change between 1700 and 1935 through the experiences of Orthodox convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese. Focusing primarily on the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, William G. Wagner places …
Freedom and the Captive Mind
Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia
Inbunden, 2024
1742 kr
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Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of conservative groups within the Church and gratitude from other religious denominations. Father Yakunin believed the survival of …
Freedom and the Captive Mind
Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia
Häftad, 2024
381 kr
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Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of conservative groups within the Church and gratitude from other religious denominations. Father Yakunin believed the survival of …
Philosophy of the Name
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
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This is the first English translation, by Thomas Allan Smith, of Philosophy of the Name (Filosofiia imeni). Sergii Bulgakov (1871–1944) wrote the book in response to a theological controversy that erupted in Russia just before the outbreak of World War I. Bulgakov develops a philosophy of language …
True Significance of Sacred Tradition and Its Great Worth, by St. Raphael M. Hawaweeny
A Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Response to Roman Catholic and Protestant Missionaries in the East
Häftad, 2026
312 kr
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Never before published, the theological thesis of St. Raphael Hawaweeny (1860–1915) is a fascinating work that shows the intersection of Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy in the late nineteenth century. Canonized by the Orthodox Church in 2000, St. Raphael was the first …
Shepherd of Maglavit
Miracles and Politics on the Banks of the Danube
Av Roland Clark
Inbunden, 2027
1625 kr
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Shepherd of Maglavit
Miracles and Politics on the Banks of the Danube
Av Roland Clark
Häftad, 2027
409 kr
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