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Eastern Orthodox Christianity : the essential texts /

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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Geffert, Bryn, 1967- (Autor), Stavrou, Theofanis G., 1934- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.