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Years have passed since the fall of the Iron Curtain, yet emerging democracies continue to struggle with a secular state which does not give preference to churches as major political players. This book explores the nationalist inclinations of an Eastern Orthodox Church as it interacts with a politically immature Eastern European state.

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The unlikely story of an activist Greek Orthodox bishop in Chicago who helped abolish the death penalty in Illinois and whose ministry to HIV/AIDS patients helped changed religious perceptions of the LGBTQ+ community.

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The first comprehensive textbook of modern Orthodox theology, spanning the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.

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This book brings together twelve essays by some of the leading scholars on Orthodox Christianity on the issue of fundamentalism and religious Orthodoxy in the contemporary world.

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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 Gorbac

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In The American YMCA and Russian Culture, Matthew Lee Miller explores the impact of the philanthropic activities of the Young Mens Christian Association on Russians during the late imperial and early Soviet periods.

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Exploration of the global spread of Eastern Orthodox practices from local settings and the resulting divergence of interpretations as a struggle over larger issues.

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The meditative prayer practices known as Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer have played an important role in the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. This book explores how these prayer practices have spread from a primarily monastic setting within Orthodox Christianity, into general Orthodox Christian usage, and finally into Western culture.

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The first comprehensive introduction to the Orthodox Church in the United States from 1794 to the present, this text offers a succinct overview of the Church's distinctive history and its particular perspectives on the Christian faith.

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The first comprehensive introduction to the Orthodox Church in the United States from 1794 to the present, this book includes a succinct picture of the distinctive history of Orthodoxy and its particular perspectives on the Christian faith.

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This book portrays the changing fortunes of the Polish Orthodox Church as it responds to the different Polish governments. Simultaneously, it illuminates the complex relationship among the state, the Orthodox and rival Roman Catholic faiths, and the Slavic minorities (chiefly Ukrainian and Belarusan) who are the primary adherents of Orthodoxy.

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A fascinating look at both Eastern Orthodoxy and evangelicalism to uncover similarities and differences in the two traditions.

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Based on the inaugural Scottish Dogmatics Conference, this volume explores the Christian belief that God is not merely the transcendent creator of the world, but is also the God who is for us, immanently involved in creation, sustaining, upholding, and intervening in the cosmos in order to save and redeem beloved creatures.

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"Originally published under the title Die 21: eine Reise ins Land der Koptischen Martyrer. Copyright 2018 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany"--Copyright page.

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Legend attributes the foundation of the first Coptic church to St Mark in Alexandria in the 1st century AD, when Egypt was under Roman rule. Although it became a Muslim nation, the Copts maintained their religious and artistic traditions throughout the Nile valley, the delta and the Mediterranean.

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Philip Yancey's 'desert island book'!

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Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among western Christians, and the author believes that an understanding of its standpoint is necessary before the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches can be reunited. This book explains the Orthodox views on such widely ranging matters as Ecumenical Councils, Sacraments, and more.

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The Philokalia is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition.