Christ In Russia

Author : John Givens
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609092382

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The Image of Christ in Russian Literature by John Givens Pdf

Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him, either by deploying faith explanations that no longer persuade in an age of skepticism or by reducing Christ to a mere argument in an ideological dispute. The writers at the heart of this study understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliché, doctrine, or naïve apologetics. The Christology of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak is thus apophatic because they deploy negative formulations (saying what God is not) in their writings about Jesus. Professions of atheism in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's non-divine Jesus are but separate negative paths toward truer discernment of Christ. This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apophaticism as a theological practice and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also emphasizes the importance of skepticism in Russian literary attitudes toward Jesus on the part of writers whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of the most provocative and enduring images of Christ in world literature. This important study will appeal to scholars and students of Orthodox Christianity and Russian literature, as well as educated general readers interested in religion and nineteenth-century Russian novels.

Author : Helene Iswolsky
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789125061

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Christ in Russia by Helene Iswolsky Pdf

“Is all of Russia not in her church?” asked the great essayist, Rosanov. The question is likely to surprise many American Christians tempted, in spite of themselves, to believe a purely political propaganda. Russia—The Enemy—is both the historical Christian reality and the present hope. In a book of profound contemporary significance, the author has presented both a scholarly and moving history of the Church of Christ in Russia, from its beginnings to the present day, and a deeply sympathetic description of the Russian Church’s Tradition and Life. The author is herself a Russian, a scholar, and a convert from the Orthodox Church in which she was raised. She writes with simplicity and with loving familiarity of things she has not only studied but lived with her heart.

Author : Hélène Iswolsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Christianity
ISBN : OCLC:277365984

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Christ in Russia by Hélène Iswolsky Pdf

Author : Andrzej Poppe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000939064

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Christian Russia in the Making by Andrzej Poppe Pdf

The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought together a quarter century ago in the author's previous Variorum volume. The focal themes are the political circumstances of the 'baptism of Russia' and the processes by which Rus' became a Christian country, an era marked by the emergence of indigenous saints in royal and monastic garb. Relations with the Byzantine world, both political and ecclesiastical, are often to the fore, but as Poppe shows, those with the West, from the Carolingians onwards, were important too. Many of the articles are provided with additional notes, and the volume includes three pieces previously unpublished in English, including an introductory survey of the Rurikid dynasty, and a major new study of the process by which Vladimir the Great became a saint.

Author : Elena Alexandrovna IZVOL'SKAYA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1065130212

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Christ in Russia. The history, tradition and life of the Russian Church. [With plates.]. by Elena Alexandrovna IZVOL'SKAYA Pdf

Author : Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : HARVARD:32044054763362

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The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia by Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) Pdf

Author : Robert Sloan Latimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Evangelistic work
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041292512

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With Christ in Russia by Robert Sloan Latimer Pdf

Author : John Garrard,Carol Garrard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691165905

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Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent by John Garrard,Carol Garrard Pdf

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral weight helped defeat the 1991 coup against Gorbachev launched by Communist Party hardliners. The Soviet Union disintegrated, leaving Russians searching for a usable past. The Garrards reveal how Patriarch Aleksy II--a former KGB officer and the man behind the church's successful defeat of the coup--is reconstituting a new national idea in the church's own image. In the new Russia, the former KGB who run the country--Vladimir Putin among them--proclaim the cross, not the hammer and sickle. Meanwhile, a majority of Russians now embrace the Orthodox faith with unprecedented fervor. The Garrards trace how Aleksy orchestrated this transformation, positioning his church to inherit power once held by the Communist Party and to become the dominant ethos of the military and government. They show how the revived church under Aleksy prevented mass violence during the post-Soviet turmoil, and how Aleksy astutely linked the church with the army and melded Russian patriotism and faith. Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent argues that the West must come to grips with this complex and contradictory resurgence of the Orthodox faith, because it is the hidden force behind Russia's domestic and foreign policies today.

Author : John H. Noble
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839741050

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I Found God in Soviet Russia by John H. Noble Pdf

I Found God in Soviet Russia, first published in 1959, is a profoundly moving account of author John Noble's religious epiphany while confined in a brutal Soviet prison following World War II. The book also recounts Noble's harrowing survival of the massive Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, where he and his family took shelter in the cellar of their home (which was partially destroyed during the raid). Following World War II, Noble, along with his father, were arrested in East Germany and held in several prison camps in Germany including the infamous Nazi-era Buchenwald. Noble is eventually transferred to Vorkuta in far northern Russia where he works in a coal mine. Sustained by his faith and devotion to God, Noble recounts his experiences, stories of his captors and fellow inmates, and the deep faith shown by many of the other prisoners. Of special note is a chapter devoted to three nuns who, as punishment for refusing to work, were placed outdoors in sub-zero weather in only lightweight-clothing. Miraculously, the nuns came through the ordeal without frostbite and were thereafter excused from work details. Following an imprisonment of nearly 10 years, Noble was eventually released to the West, and would go on to lecture about his experiences for the remainder of his life. I Found God in Soviet Russia complements the author's other book entitled I Was a Slave in Russia, which details the day-to-day life in the Soviet gulag.

Author : Marek Inglot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0916101835

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How the Jesuits Survived Their Suppression by Marek Inglot Pdf

Author : Vladimir Grigorʹevich Chertkov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Dukhobors
ISBN : UOM:39015064391496

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Christian Martyrdom in Russia by Vladimir Grigorʹevich Chertkov Pdf

Author : Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Church
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070606442

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Russia and the Universal Church by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Pdf

Author : Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010091148

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The Doctrine of the Russian Church by Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ Pdf

Author : William Peter van den Bercken
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015048523883

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Holy Russia and Christian Europe by William Peter van den Bercken Pdf

Does Russia belong in Europe, or does it feel itself to be different? The author shows how Russians have cherished a myth of the East, the belief that Christianity & civilization move eastwards, & in post-communist Russia this is by no means dead.'

Author : Nicolas Zernov
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0913836362

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The Russians and Their Church by Nicolas Zernov Pdf

This readable introduction to Russian church history covers its whole course: the early beginnings among the pagan Slav communities, the vital and touchy interaction of Church and State during the turbulent reigns of the Tsars, and the Church's narrow escape from destruction after the Bolshevik Revolution. For this edition, Nicolas Zernov has revised and amplified the chapters dealing with the post-Revolutionary Church.