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Author : Nicholas Ferencz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935317432
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book American Orthodoxy and Parish Congregationalism written by Nicholas Ferencz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749447
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Greek Orthodox Church in America written by Alexander Kitroeff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.
Author : Nicholas Ferencz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (567 download)
Download or read book A Study of the American Orthodox Church and Congregationalism written by Nicholas Ferencz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John H. Erickson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199951322
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Orthodox Christians in America written by John H. Erickson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are over 200 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, 4 million of whom live in the United States, their history, beliefs, and practices are unfamiliar to most Americans. This book outlines the evolution of Orthodox Christian dogma, which emerged for the first time in 33 A.D., before shifting its focus to American Orthodoxy--a tradition that traces its origins back to the first Greek and Russian immigrants in the 1700s. The narrative follows the momentous events and notable individuals in the history of the Orthodox dioceses in the U.S., including Archbishop Iakovos' march for civil rights alongside Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Orthodox missionaries' active opposition to the mistreatment of native Inuit in Alaska, the quest for Orthodox unity in America, the massive influx of converts since the 1960s, and the often strained relationship between American Orthodox groups and the mother churches on the other side of the Atlantic. Erickson explains the huge impact Orthodox Christianity has had on the history of immigration, and how the religion has changed as a result of the American experience. Lively, engaging, and thoroughly researched, the book unveils an insightful portrait of an ancient faith in a new world.
Author : Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogolepov
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Toward an American Orthodox Church written by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogolepov and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Bakalis
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book A Church at the Crossroads written by Michael J. Bakalis and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research reveals a mass exodus from Eastern Orthodoxy in America. But why have so many people left the Church?
Author : Albert Elijah Dunning
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Congregationalists in America written by Albert Elijah Dunning and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorus Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Orthodox Congregationalism and the Sects ... written by Dorus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Herbel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199324956
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Turning to Tradition written by Oliver Herbel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America during the twentieth century.
Author : Archimandrite Serafim
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Orthodox Church Unity in America written by Archimandrite Serafim and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. G. Roeber
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531505058
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America written by A. G. Roeber and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive and unrivaled examination of North American Eastern Orthodox Christians and their encounter with the rights revolution in a pluralistic American society. From the civil rights movement of the 1950s to the “culture wars” of North America, commentators have identified the partisans bent on pursuing different “rights” claims. When religious identity surfaces as a key determinant in how the pursuit of rights occurs, both “the religious right” and “liberal” believers remain the focus of how each contributes to making rights demands. How Orthodox Christians in North America have navigated the “rights revolution,” however, remains largely unknown. From the disagreements over the rights of the First Peoples of Alaska to arguments about the rights of transgender persons, Orthodox Christians have engaged an anglo-American legal and constitutional rights tradition. But they see rights claims through the lens of an inherited focus on the dignity of the human person. In a pluralistic society and culture, Orthodox Christians, both converts and those with family roots in Orthodox countries, share with non-Orthodox fellow citizens the challenge of reconciling conflicting rights claims. Those claims do pit “religious liberty” rights claims against perceived dangers from outside the Orthodox Church. But internal disagreements about the rights of clergy and people within the Church accompany the Orthodox Christian engagement with debates over gender, sex, and marriage as well as expanding political, legal, and human rights claims. Despite their small numbers, North American Orthodox remain highly visible and their struggles influential among the more than 280 million Orthodox worldwide. Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America offers an historical analysis of this unfolding story.
Author : Amy Slagle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609090284
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace written by Amy Slagle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in what scholars today refer to as the "spiritual marketplace" or quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice-making that marks the post-World War II American religious landscape. In this highly readable ethnographic study, Slagle explores the ways in which converts, clerics, and lifelong church members use marketplace metaphors in describing and enacting their religious lives. Slagle conducted participant observation and formal semi-structured interviews in Orthodox churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Jackson, Mississippi. Known among Orthodox Christians as the "Holy Land" of North American Orthodoxy, Pittsburgh offers an important context for exploring the interplay of Orthodox Christianity with the mainstreams of American religious life. Slagle's second round of research in Jackson sheds light on the American Bible Belt where over the past thirty years the Orthodox Church in America has marshaled significant resources to build mission parishes. Relatively few ethnographic studies have examined Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States, and Slagle's book fills a significant gap. This lucidly written book is an ideal selection for courses in the sociology and anthropology of religion, contemporary Christianity, and religious change. Scholars of Orthodox Christianity, as well as clerical and lay people interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, will find this book to be of great appeal.
Author : Augustine Casiday
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136314849
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book The Orthodox Christian World written by Augustine Casiday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This collection offers a compelling overview of the Orthodox world, covering the main regional traditions of Orthodox Christianity and the ways in which they have become global. The contributors are drawn from the Orthodox community worldwide and explore a rich selection of key figures and themes. The book provides an innovative and illuminating approach to the subject, ideal for students and scholars alike.
Author : Frederica Mathewes-Green
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612614345
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Welcome to the Orthodox Church written by Frederica Mathewes-Green and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Orthodox Church—its history, theology, worship, spirituality, and daily life. This friendly guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Orthodoxy, but with a twist: readers learn by making a series of visits to a fictitious church, and get to know the faith as new Christians did for most of history, by immersion. Mathews-Green provides commentary and explanations on everything from how to “venerate” an icon, the Orthodox understanding of the atonement, to the Lenten significance of tofu. It’s the perfect book for inquirers and newcomers, but even readers who have been Orthodox all their lives say they learned things they never knew before. Enjoyable, easy-to-read, and leavened with humor, Welcome to the Orthodox Church is a gracious guide to the ancient faith of the Christian East.
Author : George E. Matsoukas
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1647192897
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Under One Roof: Uniting the Orthodox Church of America written by George E. Matsoukas and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second collection of essays, compiled from opinion columns written during the period 2012-2020, when George Matsoukas served as executive director of Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL). The first collection, "A Church in Captivity: The Greek Orthodox Church of America," is also a collection of opinion columns, this one written during the period 1990-2007. This series of observational essays can be considered a first cut in putting together the history of Orthodoxy in America during this 30-year period. These essays also tell the OCL story and provide an insight into how the organization functions. The essays are written from the point of view of how societal events and concerned faithful were energized to advance the mission of Orthodox Christian Laity. OCL is a pan-Orthodox educational and advocacy ministry formed in 1987 to: + advocate for the restoration and strengthening of the historic role of the laity in the conciliar governance of the Orthodox Church in the United States. + support the spiritual renewal and regeneration of the Orthodox Christian Church in the United States in its Apostolic Mission. + advocate for and promote transparency and accountability in the governance of the Orthodox Church in the United States. + advocate for and champion the establishment of an administratively and canonically-unified, self-governing autocephalous Orthodox Christian Church in the United States. Matsoukas’ musings in his first volume, "A Church in Captivity," reflect the deep political changes transpiring after the "fall" of Communism in the captive "Orthodox" nations, and then in what manner those "national" churches began to respond to their "diasporas," those still existing multiple jurisdictions in The United States. This weighing of the ongoing strain between those who continue to uphold that "a unity through a simple Eucharistic oneness is sufficient" and those who insist on a "canonically unified Church administration" is the stuff of volume two, "Under One Roof: Uniting the Orthodox Church of America." It is the fruit of the author’s essays of the past 13 years. Matsoukas’ objective is to call us to be faithful to the Canonical Tradition of the Church so that it can bring forth the fullest witness of Orthodoxy through uniting all Orthodox in The United States. Considering the low percentage of Orthodox believers vis-à-vis others in this nation, the call to strength in unity makes practical sense as well. There is strength in numbers. Matsoukas reminds us that although we seem to be under one Eucharistic roof, he calls for a oneness which must not be as a loose federation of jurisdictions dependent on Synods abroad, but an authentic unity in itself total, canonical, autocephalous, as other local churches each became. The reader is grateful for the wide coverage given us of thirteen years of new Orthodox witness in the six divisions (Orthodox Christian Laity Story, Promoting Unity, Holy and Great Council, Assembly of Bishops, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, Renewal) of this new volume. The reader can take each article, one by one, and enjoy the author’s convincing presentations, and then sit back and enjoy arguing with him! Can an assembly of jurisdictions occasionally gathered at an altar, receiving from one cup and one diskos, be the fullness of Orthodox witness under one roof? The author’s answer is an emphatic, "No!"
Author : Orthodox Congregational Church (Billerica, Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (784 download)
Download or read book Manual of the Orthodox Congregational Church of Billerica, Mass written by Orthodox Congregational Church (Billerica, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christos Linardakis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 148348128X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Role of the Laity in the Administration and Governance of Ecclesiastical Property: Canons of the Eastern Orthodox Church written by Christos Linardakis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition focuses on the "Role of the Laity in the Administration and Governance of Ecclesiastical Property", specifically, in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Its focus is on what grounds, if any, exist for the laity and local church parishes to pursue legal action against the Church when it comes to disputes over Church property. The present study analyzes the development, in recent years, of disputes on the administration and governance of Church property by the laity and the avenues by which disputes may be resolved.
