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Eastern Christianity

Series The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 5

Edited by Michael Angold

Publication Date 2006

Hardback ISBN-10
0521811139

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521811132

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521811132

Overview

This volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most neglected. Inevitably, this emphasises differences in teachings and experience, but it also brings out common threads, most notably the resilience displayed in the face of alien and often hostile political regimes. The central theme is the survival against the odds of Orthodoxy in its many forms into the modern era. The last phase of Byzantium proves to have been surprisingly important in this survival. It provided Orthodoxy with the intellectual, artistic and spiritual reserves to meet later challenges. The continuing vitality of the Orthodox Churches is evident for example in the Sunday School Movement in Egypt and the Zoe brotherhood in Greece.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Eastern Christianity in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Frontmatter

The Ecumenical Patriarchate

The Russian Church

Eastern Christianities

The Modern World

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