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The A to Z of the Orthodox Church: Religion, Philosophies, and Movements, No. 9): 175
Author(s): Michael Prokurat (Author)
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date: 6 April 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 462 pages
- ISBN-10: 0810876027
- ISBN-13: 9780810876026
Book Description
Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood. The A to Z of the Orthodox Church provides students, researchers, and specialists with a desk encyclopedia of the theology and theologians, saints, sinners, places and events of the Eastern Church. Two millennia of the religion are surveyed in over five hundred concise entries, concentrating primarily on the last 150 years. Includes an overview of the early Church through the Byzantine and Russian Empires, into the present multinational Orthodox presence in the ecumenical movement. Many of the general entries cannot be found elsewhere in English, and the comprehensive compilation of biographies of 19th and 20thcentury Orthodox theologians (American, Russian, Greek, and many other nationalities) is published here for the first time. This book includes a detailed 4,000year chronology, illustrations, extensive bibliography, and an appendix listing the current canonical patriarchs and autocephalous churches.
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About the Author
Michael Prokurat was assistant professor of Scripture at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary, Houston.
Alexander Golitzin is assistant professor at the Department of Theology of Marquette University.
Michael D. Peterson is branch librarian at the San Anselmo collection of the Graduate Theological Union Library, Berkeley.
