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A Long Walk to Church - A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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A Long Walk to Church - A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet
government, interviews, and first-hand personal experiences,
Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on
the brink of institutional extinction twice in the past sixty-five
years. In 1939, only a few score widely scattered priests were
still functioning openly. Ironically, Hitler's invasion and
Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church -- and parishes
reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was
elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. However,
after Stalin's death, Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against
religion. Davis reveals that the erosion of church strength between
1948 and 1988 was greater than previously known and it was none too
soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of
the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity. More
recently, the collapse of communism has created a mixture of
dizzying opportunity and daunting trouble for Russian Orthodoxy.
The newly revised and updated edition addresses the tumultuous
events of recent years, including schisms in Ukraine, Estonia, and
Moldova, and confrontations between church traditionalists,
conservatives and reformers. The author also covers battles against
Greek-Catholics, Roman Catholics, Protestant evangelists, and
pagans in the south and east, the canonization of the last Czar,
the church's financial crisis, and hard data on the slowing Russian
orthodox recovery and growth. Institutional rebuilding and moral
leadership now beckon between promise and possibility.
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