Eastern Orthodox Christianity : the essential texts /: the essential texts. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bryn Geffert and Theofanis G. Stavrou.
• Authors: Geffert, Bryn, 1967-; Stavrou, Theofanis G, 1934-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 447 pages), map
• Subjects: 281.909; RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox; History; Sources; History -- Sources; Histoire -- Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300220728; 0300220723
• Related ISBNs: 9780300196788; 0300196784
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 12, 2016).
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