Eastern Orthodox Christianity: the essential texts
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New Haven ; London
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Yale University Press
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Includes bibliographical references
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Bryn Geffert and Theofanis G. Stavrou
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part I. Origins and metamorphoses -- Beginnings, scripture, and patristics -- New sect -- New church : Constantine and Constantinople -- Incarnational theology and Arian controversies -- Reaction -- Trinitarian debates -- Priests and bishops -- Early monasticism -- Christianity and the Byzantine state -- Holy fools -- Eastern trends in Christian theology -- Marriage and women in the early church -- Holy women -- Part II. Growth and schisms. Holy objects -- Missions to the north : Balkans and Rus' -- Iconoclastic controversy -- Hesychasm -- Great Schism -- Rise of Islam and Turkish expansion -- Rise of the Moscow Patriarchate -- Part III. Modernity and upheavals. Byzantine rite Catholics -- Peter the Great's reorientation of Russian Orthodoxy -- Engaging the West through creeds -- Popular piety and popular practices -- Orthodoxy under Ottoman rule -- The Greek revolution and Orthodox nationalism -- New thinking and church reform -- Part IV. Revolutions and reevaluations. Russian revolution -- Soviet propaganda -- Church under Stalin -- Orthodoxy and ecumenism -- Women's ordination -- Orthodox nationalism and fundamentalism