Orthodox Paradoxes: Heterogeneities and Complexities in Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy

✍ Scribed by Katya Tolstaya

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 422
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on "Orthodox paradoxes" created by the dynamic between tradition and innovation within the Russian Orthodox Church. Nineteen contributions from renowned specialists tackle societal and theological aspects and implications of these paradoxes.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Orthodox Paradoxes. Introduction
Part One Communicational Aspects
Intellectual Communication of Russian Orthodoxy from the Enlightenment to Modernity
The Polemic Concerning Church Slavonic
The Enthronement of Patriarch Kirill A Liturgical Event
“Kirill’s Doctrine” and the Potential Transformation of Russian Orthodox Christianity
Illustration Section
Part Two Contemporary Heterogeneities
Orthodox Fundamentalism: Intersection of Modernity, Postmodernity, and Tradition
Eschatological Expectations in Post-Soviet Russia: Historical Context and Modes of Interpretation
Mediators Between Heaven and Earth: The Forms of Spiritual Guidance and Debate on Spiritual Elders in Present-Day Russian Orthodoxy
Why are Hegumen Paisii and St Maria of Paris not Included in the ROC Calendar of Saints?
Part Three Aspects of Social Work
“Social Theology” and Social Work in the Romanian Orthodox Church: A Paradoxical Development?
Participating in the Global Community: The “Syndesmos” Experience of the Kazan Orthodox Youth
Orthodoxy and the Politics of Emotion in the Case of “Brother Ioann” Churikov and His Followers, 1910–1914
Part Four Theological Aspects
Postmodern Orthodoxy? Text, Interpretation, and History in Orthodox Scholarship
Debating the Theology of the Name in Post-Soviet Russia: Metropolitan Ilarion Alfeev and Sergei Khoruzhii
Illustration Section
Part Five Tradition: Transformation or Invention?
Rebuilding the Chain: Tradition, Continuity, and Processions of the Cross in Post-Soviet Russia
Paradoxes of Patriarchy: Orthodoxy and Gender in Post-Soviet Russia
Contemporary Russian Church Art―Between Tradition and Modernity
Part Six ROC and Ecumenical Dialogue
Paradoxes and Contradictions in Russian Orthodox Ecumenism. An Analysis of Non-Official Publications in the 1990s
A Dialogue of Paradoxes: Orthodox―Old Catholic Dialogue
‘The Language of Fullness and The Language of Emptiness’. Dialogue Between the Russian Orthodox Church and Buddhism? A Paradox
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