A spiritual revolution : the impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia / Andrey V. Ivanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ivanov, Andrey V. (Andrey Vyacheslavovich), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Russia.

Enlightenment.

Russia--Church history--1801-1917.

Russia.

Russia--Church history--18th century.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--History--18th century.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]

Summary:

The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia's church and society in the eighteenth century. Though the traditional Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile toward outside influence, Andrey V. Ivanov's study argues that the institution in fact embraced many Western ideas, thereby undergoing what some observers called a religious revolution.Embedded with lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale effort to fully identify exactly how Western progressive thought influenced the Russian Church. These new ideas played a foundational role in the emergence of the country as a modernizing empire and the rise of the Church hierarchy as a forward-looking agency of institutional and societal change. Ivanov addresses this important debate in the scholarship on European history, firmly placing Orthodoxy within the much wider European and global continuum of religious change.

Contents:

Part I. Orthodox Russia reformed. Russian Orthodoxy on the eve of the reforms, 1654-1712

Escape from Rome: peregrinations of Feofan Prokopovich

A Russian Luther: Feofan in St. Petersburg, 1718-1725

A Struggle for Orthodoxy: saving Russia from "Papist tyranny," 1725-1736

Part II. Orthodox Russia Enlightened. "The fledglings of Petrine nest": early Enlightenment and the continuities of reform, 1740-1765

Enlightening the Church: faith and culture in the age of reason, 1762-1801

Light from the pulpit: preaching reason to Russia's masses, 1754-1801

Spiritual Napoleons: enlightened bishops and the bureaucratic reaction, 1801-1824.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299327934

0299327930

OCLC:

1202475871