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Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology or religious history, this essential, one-of-a-kind work frames, explores, and interprets Eastern Orthodoxy through the use of primary sources and documents. Lively introductions and short narratives that touch on anthropology, art, law, literature, music, politics, women's studies, and a host of other areas are woven together to provide a coherent and fascinating history of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.

Title Eastern Orthodox Christianity : The Essential Texts / Bryn Geffert, Theofanis G. Stavrou.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
Creation Date [2016]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
In English.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Sources in Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Supplemental Texts -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of the Concentration of Eastern Orthodoxy, 2010 -- Part I. Origins and Metamorphoses -- Part II. Growth and Schisms -- Part III. Modernity and Upheavals -- Part IV. Revolutions and Reevaluations -- Recommended Reading -- Illustration Credits
Extent 1 online resource (478 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010721008205171
MARC RECORDS
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