John Mason Neale and the Quest for Sobornost

ISBN-13: 9780198263517 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 312 str.

Leon Litvack

Opis

John Mason Neale (1818-1866), the famous Victorian divine, hymnologist, novelist, historian, and author of the carol "Good King Wenceslas," was also noted for his interest in ecumenism. This book traces Neale's interest in the Orthodox church, as expressed through his historical writings, translations of Greek hymns, and novels set in the Christian East. The work is based on a wide variety of manuscript and published sources for the subject, and demonstrates how this leading light in Anglo-Catholic revival acted as an exemplary interpreter of Byzantium and Eastern Orthodoxy to the Victorian England of his day. Neale's life and work provide a shining example of how two very different cultures and traditions can approach each other, with fruitful results for both.

Recenzje

This is the fascinating story of efforts by the great English Anglo-Catholic John Mason Neale ... to understand the Orthodox Church and to create a dialogue between Anglicanism and Orthodoxy. The author has studied a broad and admirable range of primary sources. In brief, this study deserves to be in any respectable collection of Anglo-Catholic literature. It is sound, thorough, and extremely valuable.