Research Catalog

Title

The Orthodox churches and the secular state / Steven Runciman.

Author

Runciman, Steven, 1903-2000.

Publication

[Auckland, N.Z.] : Auckland University Press, [1971]

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Details

Additional Authors

Auckland University Press.

Description

110 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Sir Douglas Robb lectures ; 1970

Uniform Title

Sir Douglas Robb lectures ; 1970.

Subject

• Orthodox Eastern Church > History
• Orthodox Eastern Church > Doctrines > History
• Église orthodoxe > Histoire
• Orthodox Eastern Church
• Georgisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
• Geschichte 1900-1971
• Church and state > History
• Église et État > Histoire
• Church and state
• Staat
• Orthodoxe Kirche
• Orthodoxe kerken
• Kerk en staat

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Based on four lectures delivered at the University of Auckland, September, 1970.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 99-102.

Contents

The Byzantine heritage: The Orthodox churches today -- Persecutions of the early Christians -- The triumph of the cross -- The Christian emperor -- The organization of the church -- Attitude towards doctrine -- The Balkan churches -- The early Russian church -- Church and state -- Under the infidel yoke: Christians in Arab lands -- The milet system -- The Orthodox milet in the Ottoman empire -- Position of the Patriarchate -- Corruption and intrigue -- The Rumanian principalities and the Phanariots -- The growth of nationalism -- The Patriarch's dilemma -- Holy Russia: Russa and the fall of Byzantium -- The third Rome -- Possessors and non-possessors -- Establishment of the Patriarchate of Moscow -- The time of troubles -- The Romanov dynasty and the patriarch Philaret -- The patriarch Nikon -- Peter the Great -- Secular control of the church -- Religious revival in the nineteenth century -- The church on the eve of revolution -- The present problems: The church in Greece -- The Balkan churches -- The Patriarchates of the East -- The Patriarchate of Constantinople -- Russia in 1917 -- The Council of the church -- The patriarch Tikhon -- First persecutions -- The 'living church' -- Sergius of Nijni Novgorod acting head of the church -- His submission to the Soviet -- Further persecution -- The war with Germany -- Easier times -- Relations with the oecumenical movement -- Worsening conditions -- Caesar and God: Spiritual life amongst the Orthodox -- The churches in exile and overseas -- The problem of church and state.

ISBN

• 0196476135
• 9780196476131

LCCN

72193983

OCLC

• ocm00534068
• 534068
• SCSB-143854

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library