The Diary of a Russian Priest
Author: Alexander Elchaninov
Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780881410006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander Elchaninov
Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780881410006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ignatiĭ Nikolaevich Potapenko
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward E. Roslof
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002-10-24
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0253109469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1917 revolutions that gave birth to Soviet Russia had a profound impact on Russian religious life. Social and political attitudes toward religion in general and toward the Russian Orthodox Church in particular remained in turmoil for nearly 30 years. During that time of religious uncertainty, a movement known as "renovationism," led by reformist Orthodox clergy, pejoratively labeled "red priests," tried to reconcile Christianity with the goals of the Bolshevik state. But Church hierarchy and Bolshevik officials alike feared clergymen who proclaimed themselves to be both Christians and socialists. This innovative study, based on previously untapped archival sources, recounts the history of the red priests, who, acting out of religious conviction in a hostile environment, strove to establish a church that stood for social justice and equality. Red Priests sheds valuable new light on the dynamics of society, politics, and religion in Russia between 1905 and 1946.
Author: Ioann Stepanovich Beli︠u︡stin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801493355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Religious life has been perhaps the least explored and most poorly understood aspect of imperial Russian history. This annotated translation of a dissident priest's exposé of the parish clergy adds significantly to our knowledge, providing a graphic picture of the Orthodox church in the mid-nineteenth century. For the first time, we are able to grasp the profound importance of the church in the everyday lives of ordinary men and women.I. S. Belliustin's Description of the Clergy in Rural Russia was published abroad and smuggled back into the empire in 1858, on the eve of the Great Reforms. Its shocking depiction of a church pervaded by venality and ignorance created a sensation in high society and government circles. It generated a new sense of self-awareness among the younger clergy and sparked a reform movement that climaxed in the years just before the 1917 Revolution. Much more than a chapter in the history of Russian Orthodoxy, Belliustin's memoir is a major document in Russian social history. Throughout, the author ranges beyond the seminary and the parish to touch on almost every aspect of village life. Gregory Freeze has translated this text and supplied extensive annotations. His introduction is a masterly--and long-needed--survey of the church's role in the social and political life of imperial Russia.Written by a wry and trenchant observer, this portrait of rural Russia will be read with interest by students and scholars of Russian history, of the Orthodox church, and of the social and religious history of nineteenth-century Europe.
Author: Ignatiĭ Nikolaevich Potapenko
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
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Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780881412321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The stories of Father Arseny and his work in the Soviet prison camps have captured the minds and hearts of readers all over the world. In this second volume readers will find additional narratives about Father Arseny newly translated from the most recent Russian edition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: J. N. Potapenko
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-27
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781330424698
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from A Russian Priest There is a great desire on the part of most of us to know more of the inner life of that great nation with whom we are now so happily allied, and to understand the inner life of Russia must always mean to know something of its religion. To be ignorant of Russian religion would be to know little or nothing of Russia. "A Russian Priest" shows us how the general desire of Christians to humanize their religion is spreading over the whole Church. With us it took the form twenty years ago of what was known as "slumming." We went from the Universities into the large towns with our Missions and Settlements. According to this book, it has taken a rather different form in Russia. There it is the mission of the highly educated priest to go from the towns into the villages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ignatiĭ Nikolaevich Potapenko
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 326
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