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Church History & Current Events (43)
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CHURCH OF THE ANCIENT COUNCILS, THE : THE DISCIPLINARY WORK OF THE FIRST FOUR ECUMENICAL COUNCILS.
Author: ARCHBISHOP PETER L'HUILLIER
#: 642
The author translates each canon into clear and readable English, exploring the circumstances which gave rise to each of them and the ways in which they have been interpreted.
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BYZANTIUM AND THE SLAVS
Author: DIMITRI OBOLENSKY
#: 1670
The cultural impact of Byzantine civilisation upon the history and development of the peoples of Eastern Europe is examined in a scholarly and detailed way.
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EVENING WORSHIP IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Author: NICHOLAS USPENSKY
#: 2024
The only work in English on the history and development of Orthodox Evening Worship. A superbly detailed and argued book.
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RISEN INDEED: LESSONS IN FAITH FROM THE U S S R
Author: CANON MICHAEL BOURDEAUX
#: 2853
Based on the author's first visits to the Soviet Union in the 1960's. Although now long overtaken by events this book still reveals something of the flame of Faith which continued to burn even in the face of atheistic onslaught.
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RUSSIAN CHURCH UNDER THE SOVIET REGIME , THE , 1917 - 1982
Author: POSPIELOVSKY , DIMITRY
#: 2852
A history of the Russian Orthodox Church based on published sources, official Sooviet writings, samizdat materials, unpublished biographies and extensive personal interviews with Russian church leaders and emigres.
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TREASURES OF THE HOLY LAND
Author: VESELIN & LYDIA KESICH
#: 1544
Nicely illustrated with line drawings this book makes an interesting read both for armchair and actual pilgrims. Highlights not only the principal Biblical sites, but also those from the Apostolic and post Apostolic era's.
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IMPERIAL UNITY AND CHRISTIAN DIVISION : THE CHURCH 450-680
Author: JOHN MEYENDORFF
#: 4631
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FEED MY SHEEP
Author: METROPOLITAN PHILIP SALIBA
#: 40
The journals of the present Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in North America. They reveal a profound love for and willingness to serve the Church.
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MILLENNIUM OF FAITH
Author: FRANCIS HOUSE
#: 2856
An introductory history of the Russian Church in celebration of the 1988 Millennium.
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LEGACY OF ST VLADIMIR, THE
Author: FR. JOHN MEYENDORFF
#: 1535
A collection of essays presented at a symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of St. Vladimir's Seminary, New York. The essays deal with historical, theological, social and spiritual developments which brought Orthodoxy from Byzantium to the modern world.
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BYZANTIUM AND THE RISE OF RUSSIA
Author: FR. JOHN MEYENDORFF
#: 2386
"This book describes the role of Byzantine ... diplomacy in the emergence of Moscow as the capital of Russia in the fourteenth century." The author also examines the spiritual, cultural and political ties between Byzantium and the evolving Russian State.
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MILLENNIUM, THE, CHRISTIANITY AND RUSSIA ( A D 988 -1988 )
Author: ALBERT LEONG ED.
#: 2854
This collection of papers presented at a University of Oregon symposium illuminates the meaning of Russian Orthodoxy and its historical influence on the humanities in Russia from the conversion of Rus to the modern day.CANON MICHAEL BOURDEAUX
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RUSSIA , RITUAL , AND REFORM : THE LITURGICAL REFORMS OF NIKON IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Author: MEYENDORFF , PAUL
#: 2850
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ROME, CONSTANTINOPLE, MOSCOW: HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
Author: FR. JOHN MEYENDORFF
#: 836
Essays discussing different aspects of the estrangement between East and West and presenting an evaluation of several attempts at healing the schism.
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CRISIS IN BYZANTIUM
Author: ARISTEIDES PAPADAKIS
#: 2013
A historical study of the contribution of Patriarch Gregory of Cyprus to the Filioque controversy in the aftermath of the Council of Lyon.
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CONVERSATIONS WITH ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW I
Author: Olivier Clement
#: 2014
Since the collapse of communism in 1989 the Orthodox Church has found itself in a new situation as it confronts life in a secularly dominated Western world. In this book we learn some of the thoughts of the "First among Equals" of Orthodox Bishops as to how Orthodoxy might deal with some of these challenges.
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ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA, THE
Author: DIMITRY POSPIELOVSKY
#: 2843
For those interested in theology, Russian studies, and the history of culture this is "a panoramic view of one of the largest, most controversial, spiritually profound and deeply suffering of all Christian Churches." Covers nine centuries of history including the post-Communist era.
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TOWARD AN AMERICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
Author: ALEXANDER BOGELEPOV
#: 4028
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ORTHODOXY AND WESTERN CULTURE: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS HONORING JAROSLAV PELIKAN
Author: ED. BY PATRICK HENRY & VALERIE HOTCHKISS
#: 8165
Jaroslav Pelikan is considered by many to be the foremost living Church historian with works stemming from his five volume "The Emergence of the Christian Tradition" through to the more recent "Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition." This publication of essays by colleagues and former students honours Pelikan on his Eightieth birthday. Centred on the theme of the impact of Orthodoxy on Western culture the contributors include John Erickson, Valerie Hotchkiss and Andrew Louth. Not to be missed are Pelikan's personal memoirs of his life as a scholar.
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RUSSIAN PIETY
Author: NICHOLAS ARSENIEV
#: 2020
This is a classic on the sacramental life of the Orthodox Church in Russia.
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