Orthodox Christians In America

Author : John H. Erickson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199951321

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Although there are over 200 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, 4 million of whom live in the United States, their history, beliefs, and practices are unfamiliar to most Americans. This book outlines the evolution of Orthodox Christian dogma, which emerged for the first time in 33 A.D., before shifting its focus to American Orthodoxy--a tradition that traces its origins back to the first Greek and Russian immigrants in the 1700s. The narrative follows the momentous events and notable individuals in the history of the Orthodox dioceses in the U.S., including Archbishop Iakovos' march for civil rights alongside Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Orthodox missionaries' active opposition to the mistreatment of native Inuit in Alaska, the quest for Orthodox unity in America, the massive influx of converts since the 1960s, and the often strained relationship between American Orthodox groups and the mother churches on the other side of the Atlantic. Erickson explains the huge impact Orthodox Christianity has had on the history of immigration, and how the religion has changed as a result of the American experience. Lively, engaging, and thoroughly researched, the book unveils an insightful portrait of an ancient faith in a new world.

Author : John H. Erickson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195333084

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With this volume, Erickson follows the momentous events and notable individuals in the history of the Orthodox dioceses in America. The book explains the impact Orthodox Christianity has had on the history of immigration, and how the religion has changed as a result of the American experience.

Author : Mark Stokoe,Leonid Kishkovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : North America
ISBN : IND:30000052171943

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Orthodox Christians in North America 1794-1994 by Mark Stokoe,Leonid Kishkovsky Pdf

Author : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides,Elizabeth H. Prodromou
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268101299

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education by Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides,Elizabeth H. Prodromou Pdf

Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim to reverse this trend by offering original insights from Orthodox Christian perspectives that contribute to the ongoing discussion about religion, higher education, and faith and learning in the United States. The book is divided into two parts. Essays in the first part explore the historical experiences and theological traditions that inform (and sometimes explain) Orthodox approaches to the topic of religion and higher education—in ways that often set them apart from their Protestant and Roman Catholic counterparts. Those in the second part problematize and reflect on Orthodox thought and practice from diverse disciplinary contexts in contemporary higher education. The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights into philosophical questions about the relevance and application of Orthodox ideas in the religious and secular academy, as well as cross-disciplinary treatments of Orthodoxy as an identity marker, pedagogical framework, and teaching and research subject.

Author : Oliver Herbel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199324958

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Turning to Tradition by Oliver Herbel Pdf

This book examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America during the twentieth century.

Author : John H. Erickson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0195108523

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Orthodox Christians in America by John H. Erickson Pdf

Traces the evolution of the Orthodox Christian faith in America from its origins in the late 1700s through the 1990s, highlighting notable events and significant individuals in the history of the religion.

Author : Thomas Hopko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Orthodox Eastern Church
ISBN : OSU:32435074587643

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The Orthodox Faith: Doctrine by Thomas Hopko Pdf

Author : Orthodox Eastern Church
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Service books (Music)
ISBN : 9780881412963

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The Divine Liturgy by Orthodox Eastern Church Pdf

Author : Augustine Casiday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136314858

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The Orthodox Christian World by Augustine Casiday Pdf

Over the last century unprecedented numbers of Christians from traditionally Orthodox societies migrated around the world. Once seen as an ‘oriental’ or ‘eastern’ phenomenon, Orthodox Christianity is now much more widely dispersed, and in many parts of the modern world one need not go far to find an Orthodox community at worship. This collection offers a compelling overview of the Orthodox world, covering the main regional traditions of Orthodox Christianity and the ways in which they have become global. The contributors are drawn from the Orthodox community worldwide and explore a rich selection of key figures and themes. The book provides an innovative and illuminating approach to the subject, ideal for students and scholars alike.

Author : Ezra Ham
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1973542242

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The Immigrants' Tale by Ezra Ham Pdf

Millions of immigrants arrived in the United States during the Great Migration of 1860-1924. Increasingly Old Stock Americans grew fearful of these new people with their strange ways and strange religions. The Immigrants' Tale is a cultural history of the coming of Eastern Orthodox Arab Christians to the United States. The Tale is told by the members of St. Elijah Orthodox Christian Church in Oklahoma City, OK. Change the names, change the city, change the religion and it's the universal story experienced by all immigrants The Immigrants' Tale is larger than any one community, any one city, any one ethnicity and any one religion. It is the Tale of all immigrants. Everyone living in the United States is an immigrant or a descendent of immigrants. The Immigrants' Tale is therefore our story; even if our ancestors have lived here so long we no longer remember or care where they came from.

Author : A. G. Roeber
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531505066

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Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America by A. G. Roeber Pdf

A distinctive and unrivaled examination of North American Eastern Orthodox Christians and their encounter with the rights revolution in a pluralistic American society. From the civil rights movement of the 1950s to the “culture wars” of North America, commentators have identified the partisans bent on pursuing different “rights” claims. When religious identity surfaces as a key determinant in how the pursuit of rights occurs, both “the religious right” and “liberal” believers remain the focus of how each contributes to making rights demands. How Orthodox Christians in North America have navigated the “rights revolution,” however, remains largely unknown. From the disagreements over the rights of the First Peoples of Alaska to arguments about the rights of transgender persons, Orthodox Christians have engaged an anglo-American legal and constitutional rights tradition. But they see rights claims through the lens of an inherited focus on the dignity of the human person. In a pluralistic society and culture, Orthodox Christians, both converts and those with family roots in Orthodox countries, share with non-Orthodox fellow citizens the challenge of reconciling conflicting rights claims. Those claims do pit “religious liberty” rights claims against perceived dangers from outside the Orthodox Church. But internal disagreements about the rights of clergy and people within the Church accompany the Orthodox Christian engagement with debates over gender, sex, and marriage as well as expanding political, legal, and human rights claims. Despite their small numbers, North American Orthodox remain highly visible and their struggles influential among the more than 280 million Orthodox worldwide. Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America offers an historical analysis of this unfolding story.

Author : Daniel B. Clendenin
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801026522

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity by Daniel B. Clendenin Pdf

A clear introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy and key aspects of the tradition. Includes new content and an updated bibliography.

Author : Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501749452

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The Greek Orthodox Church in America by Alexander Kitroeff Pdf

In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.

Author : John Meyendorff
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881410683

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The Vision of Unity by John Meyendorff Pdf

John Meyendorff, in his own words, "has dedicated most of this life to teaching and to investigating the past of Christianity, studying the ways in which the faith of the Church was confessed throughout the ages by the Fathers of the Church." It was during a more recent period -- from January 1965 to December 1984 -- that he was also editor of a church monthly, The Orthodox Church, in which he published signed editorials reflecting upon the growth and development of Orthodoxy in America. For him, this work was a blessed challenge. Indeed, he was forced to relate the permanent and unchanging faith of the Church to the changing circumstances of our recent history, and to the birth of a new Orthodox Church on the American continent. The editorials reprinted in Vision of Unity ask the question: Can we survive in chaos and disunity? They are presented in two sections: 1. the issue of Orthodox unity in America, and 2. the basic principles of Church structure. Throughout, the Church is revealed as a "conciliar" Church, the Church of all people, clergy and laity, old and young, men and women -- the "Catholic" Church, of all nations and generations. Book jacket.

Author : Vigen Guroian
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493415649

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The Orthodox Reality by Vigen Guroian Pdf

This is a book about the struggle of Orthodox Christianity to establish a clear identity and mission within modernity--Western modernity in particular. As such, it offers penetrating insight into the heart and soul of Orthodoxy. Yet it also lends unusual, unexpected insight into the struggle of all the churches to engage modernity with conviction and integrity. Written by one of the leading voices of contemporary Orthodox theology, The Orthodox Reality is a treasury of the Orthodox response to the challenges of Western culture in order to answer secularism, act ecumenically, and articulate an ethics of the family that is both faithful to tradition and relevant to our day. The author honestly addresses Orthodoxy's strengths and shortcomings as he introduces readers to Orthodoxy as a living presence in the modern world.