"Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans" is the first sustained study of
inter-Orthodox relations, the special role of the Anglican Church,
and the problems of Orthodox nationalism in the modern age. Despite
many challenges, the interwar years were a time of intense
creativity in the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian emigres, freed
from enforced isolation in the wake of the Russian Revolution,
found themselves in close contact with figures from other Orthodox
churches and from the Roman Catholic Church and all varieties of
Protestant confessions. For many reasons, Russian exiles found
themselves drawn to the Anglican Church in particular. The interwar
years thus witnessed a concentrated effort to bridge the gap
between Orthodox and Anglican. Geffert's book is a detailed history
of that effort. It is the story of efforts toward rapprochement by
two churches and their ultimate failure to achieve formal unity.
The same political, diplomatic, historical, personal, and religious
forces that first inspired contact were the ones that ultimately
undermined the effort. Bryn Geffert recounts the history of an
important chapter in the history of Christian ecumenism, one that
is relevant to contemporary efforts to achieve meaningful
interfaith dialogue.
"At a time when the sun seems to have set on the twentieth
century's long labor to reunite a divided Christendom, historians
and theologians do well to remember what the dawn was like. Bryn
Geffert provides, for the first time, a full and revealing history
of one of the most central and fascinating episodes of modern
ecumenism. Historically precise and theologically acute, Geffert's
book allows us to appreciate the complex motives that fueled the
ecumenical hopes of a distinguished generation, and also to
understand why so much intelligence and good will fell so far short
of its goal." --Bruce Marshall, Southern Methodist University
"Bryn Geffert brings a tremendous amount and considerable
variety of source material to bear on the story of
Anglican-Orthodox relations from the nineteenth century to around
1945. He also skillfully presents the secular political and
diplomatic context in which Anglican-Orthodox church relations
unfolded. This work will generate interest beyond the circle of
church historians and ecumenists. Political and diplomatic
historians interested in the religious dimensions of
European/Middle Eastern/Russian history will find Geffert's work
very useful." --Paul Valliere, Butler University
" Geffert's] is the only work of its kind. Even among related
studies, this one is singular in the depth of its coverage of
Anglican-Orthodox and other ecumenical connections in the years
between the world wars, while tracing the earlier
nineteenth-century developments that led up to the intense period
of ecumenical engagement, roughly from 1920 to 1937. . . . The
narration is superb; the author knows how to tell a most complex
story with clarity and color." --Michael Plekon, Baruch College
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