T�tulo: A Long Walk To Church: A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy Davis, Nathaniel
Editor: Routledge
Fecha de publicaci�n: 1994
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0813322774
ISBN 13: 9780813322773
Encuadernaci�n: paperback
Estado: Very Good
Peso: 21 onzas

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This book describes the Russian Orthodox Churchs dramatic trials in Soviet and post-Soviet timesfrom near institutional extinction to precarious recovery. Facts until now hidden in the secret archives of the Soviet government make the true picture clear, allowing Nathaniel Davis to document the full history of the Russian Orthodox Church for the first time. He highlights the travails and triumphs of Russian Orthodoxy as the Soviet empire fragmented and communism lost its power. }Despite its problems, the Russian Orthodox Church manifests a luminous faith. It has achieved great political influence and is the former Soviet Unions most important vehicle for spiritual and ethical renewal. Nevertheless, it is still a long walk to church in that tormented land.Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, Nathaniel Davis offers the first complete account of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in recent times. Twice in the past sixty years, the church hung on the brink of institutional extinction. In 1939, only four bishops and a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly in that vast land. In a single night, Stalin could have arrested them all. Ironically, Hitlers invasion and Stalins reaction to it rescued the churchand parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted.In his paranoid last five years, Stalin reverted to his earlier policies of repression; after his death, Nikita Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals the full scope of Stalins last assault, the limited extent of the reprieve, and the relative continuity of policy in those brutal years of repression under Khrushchev. He shows that under Brezhnev, the erosion of church strength was greater than the world has been told, and that those decades witnessed the low point in the churchs second great crisis of survival. It was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of millennium of Russias conversion to Christianity in 1988. One could travel a thousand kilometers on the Trans-Siberian railway without coming to a single functioning church.The collapse of communism and the fragmentation of the Soviet empire have created a challenging mixture of opportunity and trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. Thousands of half-destroyed churches have been returned to believers, but the faithful do not have the money to restore them. Thousands of parishes are without priests. Ukraine, where most of the Orthodox churches were, has fallen into schism, with three feuding Orthodox factions struggling against each other and a resurgent Greek-Catholic community pushing all three eastward.Across the former Soviet Union, the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church bemoan a spiritual vacuum into which are rushing moneyed Protestant evangelists, Catholic proselytizers, Eastern mystics, and even Satanists and telesorcerers. Moreover, Orthodox Church leaders past collaboration with the communist authorities has bedeviled the hierarchs as they struggle to assert moral leadership in a society where the communists worked for seventy-five years to lead the people astray. }

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Despite its problems, the Russian Orthodox Church manifests a luminous faith. It has achieved great political influence and is Russia's most important vehicle for spiritual and ethical renewal. Nevertheless, it is still a long walk to church in that tormented land. Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, Nathaniel Davis offers the first complete account of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church from the Bolshevik revolution to the present. Twice in the past sixty years, the church hung on the brink of institutional extinction. In 1939, only four bishops and a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly in the entire Soviet Union. Stalin could have arrested them all in a single night. Ironically, Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church - parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. After the war, Stalin reverted to his earlier policies of repression; after his death, Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals the full scope of Stalin's last assault, the limited extent of the reprieve, and the relative continuity of policy in those brutal years of repression. Under Brezhnev, the erosion of church strength was greater than the world has been told, and those decades ushered in the church's second great crisis of survival. One could travel a thousand kilometers on the Trans-Siberian railway without coming to a single functioning church. It was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of Russia's Millennium of Christian Conversion. Davis shows that the collapse of communism andthe fragmentation of the Soviet empire have created a challenging mixture of opportunity and trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. Thousands of half-destroyed churches have been returned to believers who do not have the money to restore them. Thousands of parishes are still without pri

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