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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Orthodox Churches
The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European
Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia's
church and society in the eighteenth century. Though the
traditional Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile
toward outside influence, Andrey V. Ivanov's study argues that the
institution in fact embraced many Western ideas, thereby undergoing
what some observers called a religious revolution. Embedded with
lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of
political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale
effort to fully identify exactly how Western progressive thought
influenced the Russian Church. These new ideas played a
foundational role in the emergence of the country as a modernizing
empire and the rise of the Church hierarchy as a forward-looking
agency of institutional and societal change. Ivanov addresses this
important debate in the scholarship on European history, firmly
placing Orthodoxy within the much wider European and global
continuum of religious change.
George was one of the last scholarly Syrian Orthodox bishops to
live in the early Islamic period. His metrical homily, probably
composed to be sung during the consecration of the Myron, is
presented here with the vocalised Syriac text and English
translation on facing pages.
The catholic, or general, epistles of the "other apostles"-James,
Peter, Jude and John-are sometimes overshadowed by the stirring
theology of the great Apostle to the Gentiles, St. Paul. But these
seven epistles are quiet gems of instruction, encouragement and
exhortation for all believers. Written at various times and
locations and to differing audiences, the general epistles
nevertheless share some common themes: endurance under persecution,
living out the Faith in a hostile society, discerning heresy by its
fruits-namely, immorality and lack of love-and resisting it,
holding fast to the apostolic faith. As Fr. Lawrence Farley deftly
shows in this commentary, all these are timely themes from which
believers today can richly profit.Working from a literal
translation of the original Greek, this commentary examines the
text section by section, explaining its meaning in everyday
language. Written from an Eastern Orthodox and patristic
perspective, it maintains a balance between the devotional and the
exegetical, feeding both the heart and the mind.
Shenoute the Great (c.347-465) led one of the largest Christian
monastic communities in late antique Egypt and was the greatest
native writer of Coptic in history. For approximately eight
decades, Shenoute led a federation of three monasteries and emerged
as a Christian leader. His public sermons attracted crowds of
clergy, monks, and lay people; he advised military and government
officials; he worked to ensure that his followers would be faithful
to orthodox Christian teaching; and he vigorously and violently
opposed paganism and the oppressive treatment of the poor by the
rich. This volume presents in translation a selection of his
sermons and other orations. These works grant us access to the
theology, rhetoric, moral teachings, spirituality, and social
agenda of a powerful Christian leader during a period of great
religious and social change in the later Roman Empire.
On a pilgrimage to the heart of Orthodox Russia, Father Spyridon
encounters the living witness to an ancient spirituality. In
monasteries, churches and at holy shrines,he discovers the
authentic voice of Christianity.
The Law Code of Simeon of Rev-Ardashir, originally written in
Persian, was translated into Syriac by a monk of Bet-Qatraye. The
Code's author, possibly to be identified with a rebellious
metropolitan mentioned in the letters of Patriarch Iso'-yahb III,
aims to clarify theoretical scriptural law, and to address specific
cases of inheritance law.
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