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