Tag: Orthodox

Free Download Edward D. Wynot Jr., "The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History"
English | ISBN: 073919884X | 2014 | 138 pages | EPUB | 1414 KB
The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History shows the adaptability of an Orthodox community whose members are a religious and ethnic minority in a predominantly Roman Catholic country populated by ethnic Poles. It features a triangular relationship among the Orthodox and Catholic hierarchies and the secular state of Poland throughout the changes of government. A secondary interrelationship involves the tense relationship between ethnic Poles on one hand, and minority Ukrainians and Belarusans on the other. As a "prisoner" of its own history and strangers in its own land, the Polish Orthodox Church faces a constant struggle for survival.

Free Download Rabee Toumi, "Orthodox Christian Bioethics: The Role of Hospitality "
English | ISBN: 1725253690 | 2020 | 276 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This book advocates a substantive common ground in global bioethics. It starts from an Orthodox Christian anthropology to highlight the relationship between hospitality, dignity, and vulnerability as the meeting point between strangers, regardless of their value system. The universal experience of suffering and death is the unifying starting point of that anthropology.

Free Download Bogdan Ershov, "Examining the Relationship Between the Russian Orthodox Church and Secular Authorities in the 19th and 20th Centuries "
English | ISBN: 1668449161 | 2022 | 283 pages | EPUB, PDF | 19 MB + 4 MB
In modern Russia, the question is raised about the revival of the spirituality of the population, which increases interest in studying the history of the church. In the pre-revolutionary period, the Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire had a significant impact on the formation of national culture and statehood. Actively cooperating with the state, the Orthodox Church has accumulated vast experience in the field of education, missionary work, and charity. This experience in today’s Russia can be used to solve the most important tasks in the moral education of young people who will contribute to the future of Russia. Examining the Relationship Between the Russian Orthodox Church and Secular Authorities in the 19th and 20th Centuries focuses on the system of spiritual education, the social and psychological characteristics of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the tradition of Orthodox pilgrimage. It explores the key areas of charitable and educational activities of the Orthodox Church during the period of religious transformation in the 19th and 20th centuries. Covering topics such as missionary activity, secular authority, and church land tenure, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for historians, anthropologists, sociologists, researchers in politics and religion, librarians, students and faculty of higher education, and academicians.

Free Download The Orthodox Christian World (Routledge Worlds) edited by Augustine Casiday
English | July 2, 2012 | ISBN: 0415455162, 1138109959 | True EPUB | 608 pages | 2.4 MB
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.

Free Download An Orthodox Ethos Publication, "On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church: The Patristic Consensus and Criteria"
English | ISBN: 1639410287 | 2023 | 450 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
What is more important to the Church than the Mysteries of Initiation into the organic union and life in Christ?

Free Download Chris Moorey, "God Among the Bunkers: The Orthodox Church in Albania Under Enver Hoxha"
English | ISBN: 1515248658 | 2015 | 168 pages | AZW3 | 363 KB
During communist rule in Albania, Enver Hoxha had 750,000 concrete bunkers built around the country as look out posts and gun emplacements against a largely imaginary threat of invasion. This worked out as one bunker for every four of the population. During the same period, he attempted to completely eliminate all religious practice and belief in the country. Based on thorough research and personal interviews with survivors, "God Among the Bunkers" describes this persecution and the remarkable stories of courage and resistance among believers. The main emphasis is on the Orthodox Church, but the book also draws examples from the Roman Catholic Church and the Bektashi and Sunni Muslim faiths. An extraordinary story that deserves to be more widely known.

Free Download Svetlana Kujumdzieva, "Studies on Eastern Orthodox Church Chant "
English | ISBN: 1032454814 | 2023 | 242 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject through various languages, practices, and liturgical books and letters. The subject of this book is also analysed through newly found, unique material, to provide the entire history of Eastern Orthodox Chant, from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries and approached through a number of different disciplines.

Free Download Christian Orthodox Political Philosophy: A Theological Approach by Pavlos M. Kyprianou
English | August 8th, 2023 | ISBN: 1942699492 | 152 pages | True EPUB | 0.84 MB
The Church is commonly spoken of as an institutional reality, but much less frequently recognized as a spiritual and heavenly reality called by God " to make disciples of all nations." (Mt. 28:19) This modest work furthers the development of a structured and integrated Christian Orthodox political thought, whereby the Church is neither sidelined as having no relevance to this present life, nor dominated by temporal questions or popular movements at the expense of its eternal salvific mission.

Free Download Alexander Kitroeff, "The Greek Orthodox Church in America: A Modern History"
English | 2020 | pages: 425 | ISBN: 1501749919 | PDF | 3,4 mb
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.

Free Download Stanislau Paulau, "Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context: Entanglements and Disconnections "
English | ISBN: 9004504346 | 2022 | 245 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity constitutes an exceptional religious tradition flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa already since late antiquity. The volume places Ethiopian Orthodoxy into a global context and explores the various ways in which it has been interconnected with the wider Christian world from the Aksumite period until today. By highlighting the formative role of both wide-ranging translocal religious interactions as well as disruptions thereof, the contributors challenge the perception of this African Christian tradition as being largely isolated in the course of its history.