1st Edition
The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948 From Decline to Resurrection
By Daniela Kalkandjieva
Copyright 2015
392 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
406 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
406 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book tells the remarkable story of the decline and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the first half of the twentieth century and the astonishing U-turn in the attitude of the Soviet Union’s leaders towards the church. In the years after 1917 the Bolsheviks’ anti-religious policies, the loss of the former western territories of the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union’s isolation from... Read more
Introduction 1. The Dissolution of the Russian Orthodox Church (1917-1939) 2. The Sergian Church in the Annexed Territories (September 1939 – June 1941) 3. The Holy War of the Sergian Church 4. The Sergian Church and Western Christianity 5. The Moscow Patriarchate Restored 6. The Growth of Moscow’s Jurisdiction 7. Russian Émigré Churches beyond Stalin’s Grasp (1945-1947) 8. The Moscow Patriarchate and the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches outside the Soviet Union (1944-1947) 9. Toward an Eighth Ecumenical Council (1944-1948) Conclusion
Biography
Daniela Kalkandjieva is a Researcher at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria
"Meticulously researched and intricately structured, this monograph blazes a new trail in the historiography of the ROC. By reconstructing key formative moments of the church’s experience and action in the early twentieth century, this original analysis gives the reader a more comprehensive sense of context for understanding the ecclesiological identity of the Russian Orthodox today, its relations with the state and its more recent elaborations of the notion of canonical territory. Th is book will be welcomed by specialists and advanced students of the Orthodox Church, but though it is not intended as an introductory text its highly readable presentation will make it very rewarding to the non-specialist as well." - Andrii Krawchuk, St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 59:4 (2015) 485–498
"This is an important work of scholarship that will serve as a vital reference point for all future research on the international dimension of the Russian Orthodox Church. The book will most definitely be of use to specialists in twentieth-century church history and theologians who focus on modern inter-church relations."
James White, Europe-Asia Studies
