A Long Walk To Church : A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy
ISBN: 9780813340678 / Angielski / Miękka / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, interviews, and first-hand personal experiences, Nathaniel Davis describes how th...
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The Eastern Catholic Churches: An Introduction to Their Worship and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780814620472 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a new interest in Eastern Christianity, Western Christians may ask: Who are Eastern Catholics? How did the Eastern Catholic Churches originate? What is a rite? Why do the Eastern Churches celebrate their Eucharistic liturgies in beauty and grandeur? What can Western Christians learn from the Eastern Catholic Churches? The Eastern Catholic Churches addresses itself to these and other questions.
With a new interest in Eastern Christianity, Western Christians may ask: Who are Eastern Catholics? How did the Eastern Catholic Churches originate? W...
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The Church and Social Reform
ISBN: 9780823213344 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Church and Social Reform studies the nature and extent of Athanasios' social reforms and political involvement during his two tenures on the patriarchal throne of Constantiople. The traditional influence, power, and authority that resided in the patriarchate of Constantinople made the involvement of an aggressive patriarch in the social affairs of the empire virtually inevitable.
The Church and Social Reform studies the nature and extent of Athanasios' social reforms and political involvement during his two tenures on the patri...
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The Church and Social Reform
ISBN: 9780823213351 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Church and Social Reform studies the nature and extent of Athanasios' social reforms and political involvement during his two tenures on the patriarchal throne of Constantiople. The traditional influence, power, and authority that resided in the patriarchate of Constantinople made the involvement of an aggressive patriarch in the social affairs of the empire virtually inevitable.
The Church and Social Reform studies the nature and extent of Athanasios' social reforms and political involvement during his two tenures on the patri...
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Light from the Christian East: An Introduction to the Orthodox Tradition
ISBN: 9780830825943 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Word Guild 2008 Canadian Christian Writing Awards winner "Do they really pray to icons?" "Why do they use incense?" "What do they believe?" To many people, the Orthodox Christian tradition (or Eastern Orthodoxy) seems unfamiliar and mysterious. Yet this tradition is arguably the most faithful representative of early Christianity in existence today and numbers roughly 250 million adherents worldwide. What's more, a steady stream of evangelical Christians has been entering the Orthodox Church in recent decades. Isn't it time we gained a deeper understanding of Orthodoxy? In Light from the...
The Word Guild 2008 Canadian Christian Writing Awards winner "Do they really pray to icons?" "Why do they use incense?" "What do they believe?" To ma...
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Seeking God
ISBN: 9780875801780 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originating in the symposium on The Recovery of Religious Identity in the Soviet Union, held at Arizona State U. in March 1991, this volume examines the roots and recovery of Orthodox religious culture in Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia. The volume is divided into three major sections: popular religi
Originating in the symposium on The Recovery of Religious Identity in the Soviet Union, held at Arizona State U. in March 1991, this volume examines t...
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Old Believers in Modern Russia
ISBN: 9780875802053 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861-1917
ISBN: 9780875803173 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work describes the interplay between peasant religious life and the broader social and cultural transformation of late tsarist Russia. Chulos challenges existing conceptions of religion in Russia and sheds light on the development of modern national identity.
This work describes the interplay between peasant religious life and the broader social and cultural transformation of late tsarist Russia. Chulos cha...
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His Kingdom Come
ISBN: 9780875803821 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
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 ...
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God With Us: Critical Issues in Chr
ISBN: 9780881412529 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of reflections contemplates the Divinity descending, acting within, and enlightening our day-to-day lives. This eminent Orthodox ethicist and pastor ponders questions that arise in our culture and answers them in an engaging style that is fully accessible to the average layperson.
This collection of reflections contemplates the Divinity descending, acting within, and enlightening our day-to-day lives. This eminent Orthodox ethic...
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The Orthodox Eastern Church
ISBN: 9780971598614 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic trilogy had a groundbreaking effect in ringing an awareness of the broader Christian World to westerners. It remains among the most readable and authoritative sources about the churches to the east of Rome.
This classic trilogy had a groundbreaking effect in ringing an awareness of the broader Christian World to westerners. It remains among the most reada...
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The Eastern Churches Trilogy: The Uniate Eastern Churches: Edited by George D. Smith
ISBN: 9780971598638 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic trilogy had a groundbreaking effect in ringing in an awareness of the broader Christian World to westerners. It remains among the most readable and authoritative sources about the churches to the east of Rome. (World Religions)
This classic trilogy had a groundbreaking effect in ringing in an awareness of the broader Christian World to westerners. It remains among the most re...
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Children of the Promise: An Introduction to Western Rite Orthodoxy
ISBN: 9781418475826 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many books written about the Eastern Orthodox Church, covering its history, worship, and spirituality. Eastern Europe, revealing a spiritual depth able to with stand genuine evil, it has also begun to attract members in Western Europe and North America, disappointed in the superficiality and materialism into which Western Culture has declined. West transformed rather than denied: Western Christian practice returned to the Orthodox faith that shaped the Western exprience for a thousand years.
There have been many books written about the Eastern Orthodox Church, covering its history, worship, and spirituality. Eastern Europe, revealing a spi...
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Orthodoxy 101: A Bird's Eye View
ISBN: 9781424306077 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Orthodoxy and Difference: Essays on the Geography of Russian Orthodox Church(es) in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9781556350382 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings
ISBN: 9781570754364 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), a Russian emigree, Orthodox nun, and martyr under the Nazis, is fast gaining recognition as one of the most fascinating religious figures of the twentieth century. In becoming an Orthodox nun in Paris she was determined to pioneer a new form of monasticism, engaged in active charity and the challenge of social justice. Her home in Paris was at once a soup kitchen for the needy, a center for the renewal of Orthodox thought, and -- during the Nazi occupation -- a haven for the rescue of Jews. For the latter cause she ended her life in a Nazi death camp. In...
Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), a Russian emigree, Orthodox nun, and martyr under the Nazis, is fast gaining recognition as one of the most fascin...
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Windows to Heaven: Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics
ISBN: 9781587431098 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evangelicals often feel uneasy when they encounter the haunting images of Orthodox icons. From the theological to the practical, questions flood in: Why are the facial expressions so fixed? Why the colorful robes? What do the images symbolize? Do Orthodox Christians worship icons? Doesn't that make them idols? In this useful guidebook, Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert debunk common misconceptions about Orthodox icons and explain how they might enrich the devotional lives of non-Orthodox Christians. Each chapter opens with biblical passages and engaging anecdotes and closes with...
Evangelicals often feel uneasy when they encounter the haunting images of Orthodox icons. From the theological to the practical, questions flood in: W...
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On the Clause and the Son, in Regard to the Eastern Church and the Bonn Conference: A Letter to the REV. H.P. Liddon
ISBN: 9781592448111 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Book of Governors: The Historia Monastica of Thomas of Marga AD 840 (Vol 1)
ISBN: 9781593330095 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the Syriac edition, with an English translation of the 9th century work of Thomas Bishop of Marga.
This is the Syriac edition, with an English translation of the 9th century work of Thomas Bishop of Marga.
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The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite
ISBN: 9781593330149 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the standard edition of the Chronicle with English translation.
This is the standard edition of the Chronicle with English translation.
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652,92 zł |