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Holy men of God : kings, priests, and monks in Eastern Orthodoxy / Theodore Sabo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabo, Theodore, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Religion and Spirituality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orthodox Eastern Church--Biography.
- Orthodox Eastern Church.
- Orthodox Eastern Church--History.
- Slavic countries--Church history.
- Slavic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Holy Men of God is a history of the kings, priests, and monks of Eastern Orthodoxy, an intriguing subject especially for Western readers. It focuses on the violent and luxuriant worlds of Byzantium and medieval Russia, taking its readers from the Iconoclastic crisis, the last church fathers, the Bogomil heretics, the God-intoxicated Hesychasts, and the flowering of Russian saints under the Mongol yoke, to the quarrel between the Possessors and the Non-Possessors, the bizarre persecution of the Old Believers, the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, the spiritual classic The Way of a Pilgrim, and the death on a Greek peninsula of the solitary monk Silouan. Central to its plot are the quarrelsome figure Symeon the New Theologian and the final schism between the Eastern and Western churches in AD 1054. Throughout the book the quiet sanctity of the Eastern church is contrasted with the neurosis and sadism of the Russian and Byzantine monarchs. This interplay helps the reader better appreciate the strength and resilience of a church that has been repeatedly exposed to chaos and catastrophe up to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Iconoclasts and iconodules
- John of Damascus
- The Paulicians versus the empire
- The beginning of the Great Schism
- Symeon the New Theologian
- Russia under the Mongol yoke
- The Philosophy of Hesychasm
- The possessors
- Archpriest Avvakum
- Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
- The way of the pilgrim
- Silouan's song.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sabo, Theodore Holy Men of God: Kings, Priests, and Monks in Eastern Orthodoxy
- ISBN:
- 9781685074708
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