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The Orthodox churches and the secular state

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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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