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His Kingdom Come - Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia (Paperback)
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His Kingdom Come - Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia (Paperback)
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Jennifer Hedda analyzes the ideas and activities of the parish
clergy serving in St. Petersburg, the capital of imperial Russia,
in order to discover how the Russian Orthodox Church responded
theologically and pastorally to the profound social, economic, and
cultural changes that transformed Russia during the 19th and early
20th centuries. The challenges of modernity forced the Orthodox
clergy, like other members of educated society, to re-examine their
interpretation of the Church's earthly mission and their own role
in fulfilling it. During the mid-19th century, Orthodox theologians
began to argue that the church had a responsibility to society as
well as to individuals, and to assert that its mission was to lead
believers in building a society that manifested the gospel
principles of love, mercy, charity, and justice. The idea of
creating the kingdom of God on earth inspired many clergymen, who
dramatically increased their social outreach work in the last two
decades of the 19th century: preaching during church services,
teaching outside their churches, organizing charities, establishing
temperance societies, and engaging in a host of other activities
that involved them in the daily lives of their parishioners. The
clergy's work culminated in 1905, when a workers' organization
established by an Orthodox priest became a mass political movement
whose activities sparked a revolution. His Kingdom Come challenges
many common assumptions about the Orthodox Church as a weak and
passive institution that did not respond to the demands of the
modern world--demonstrating that it played an active and creative
role in late imperial society, albeit on its own terms rather than
those of its secular critics. This book will be of particular
interest to those who study the politics and society of Russia in
the imperial period, the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in
the modern era, the relationship of religious institutions to
society and culture, and the history of religious-social thought in
other post-Enlightenment societies.
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