The Image of Christ in Russian Literature

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092384
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The Image of Christ in Russian Literature by : John Givens

Download or read book The Image of Christ in Russian Literature written by John Givens and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him, either by deploying faith explanations that no longer persuade in an age of skepticism or by reducing Christ to a mere argument in an ideological dispute. The writers at the heart of this study understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliché, doctrine, or naïve apologetics. The Christology of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak is thus apophatic because they deploy negative formulations (saying what God is not) in their writings about Jesus. Professions of atheism in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's non-divine Jesus are but separate negative paths toward truer discernment of Christ. This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apophaticism as a theological practice and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also emphasizes the importance of skepticism in Russian literary attitudes toward Jesus on the part of writers whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of the most provocative and enduring images of Christ in world literature. This important study will appeal to scholars and students of Orthodox Christianity and Russian literature, as well as educated general readers interested in religion and nineteenth-century Russian novels.

Christ in Russia

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125065
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Book Synopsis Christ in Russia by : Helene Iswolsky

Download or read book Christ in Russia written by Helene Iswolsky and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Is all of Russia not in her church?” asked the great essayist, Rosanov. The question is likely to surprise many American Christians tempted, in spite of themselves, to believe a purely political propaganda. Russia—The Enemy—is both the historical Christian reality and the present hope. In a book of profound contemporary significance, the author has presented both a scholarly and moving history of the Church of Christ in Russia, from its beginnings to the present day, and a deeply sympathetic description of the Russian Church’s Tradition and Life. The author is herself a Russian, a scholar, and a convert from the Orthodox Church in which she was raised. She writes with simplicity and with loving familiarity of things she has not only studied but lived with her heart.

How the Jesuits Survived Their Suppression

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ISBN 13 : 9780916101831
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis How the Jesuits Survived Their Suppression by : Marek Inglot

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Christ in Russia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
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Book Synopsis Christ in Russia by : Hélène Iswolsky

Download or read book Christ in Russia written by Hélène Iswolsky and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christ in Russia. The history, tradition and life of the Russian Church. [With plates.].

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Total Pages : 213 pages
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Book Synopsis Christ in Russia. The history, tradition and life of the Russian Church. [With plates.]. by : Elena Alexandrovna IZVOL'SKAYA

Download or read book Christ in Russia. The history, tradition and life of the Russian Church. [With plates.]. written by Elena Alexandrovna IZVOL'SKAYA and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia by : Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow)

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With Christ in Russia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Book Synopsis With Christ in Russia by : Robert Sloan Latimer

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Christian Martyrdom in Russia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis Christian Martyrdom in Russia by : Vladimir Grigorʹevich Chertkov

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Christian Russia in the Making

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939065
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Christian Russia in the Making by : Andrzej Poppe

Download or read book Christian Russia in the Making written by Andrzej Poppe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought together a quarter century ago in the author's previous Variorum volume. The focal themes are the political circumstances of the 'baptism of Russia' and the processes by which Rus' became a Christian country, an era marked by the emergence of indigenous saints in royal and monastic garb. Relations with the Byzantine world, both political and ecclesiastical, are often to the fore, but as Poppe shows, those with the West, from the Carolingians onwards, were important too. Many of the articles are provided with additional notes, and the volume includes three pieces previously unpublished in English, including an introductory survey of the Rurikid dynasty, and a major new study of the process by which Vladimir the Great became a saint.

Prodigal Son

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117709
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis Prodigal Son by : John Givens

Download or read book Prodigal Son written by John Givens and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly prolific director, actor, and writer, Vasilii Shukshin (1929-74) reached more Soviets in more media than perhaps any other artist in the post-Stalinist USSR. This first English-language study of Shukshin and his work is thus a portrait of the culture of Soviet Russia after Stalin. John Givens begins with Shukshin's position between cultural realms and social strata: his abandoned peasant heritage in Siberia as the son of a purged kulak on the one hand and his life as a successful artist in Moscow on the other. Givens shows how this clash of cultures and identities was both a burden and the driving force of Shukshin's art-and how it represents a central dichotomy between rural and urban culture in Soviet Russia.This work provides new terms for rereading the culture of Shukshin's time- terms that take up notions of demographic displacement, class difference, and blurred boundaries among genres, audiences, and arts.

I Found God in Soviet Russia

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839741058
Total Pages : 211 pages
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Book Synopsis I Found God in Soviet Russia by : John H. Noble

Download or read book I Found God in Soviet Russia written by John H. Noble and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Found God in Soviet Russia, first published in 1959, is a profoundly moving account of author John Noble's religious epiphany while confined in a brutal Soviet prison following World War II. The book also recounts Noble's harrowing survival of the massive Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, where he and his family took shelter in the cellar of their home (which was partially destroyed during the raid). Following World War II, Noble, along with his father, were arrested in East Germany and held in several prison camps in Germany including the infamous Nazi-era Buchenwald. Noble is eventually transferred to Vorkuta in far northern Russia where he works in a coal mine. Sustained by his faith and devotion to God, Noble recounts his experiences, stories of his captors and fellow inmates, and the deep faith shown by many of the other prisoners. Of special note is a chapter devoted to three nuns who, as punishment for refusing to work, were placed outdoors in sub-zero weather in only lightweight-clothing. Miraculously, the nuns came through the ordeal without frostbite and were thereafter excused from work details. Following an imprisonment of nearly 10 years, Noble was eventually released to the West, and would go on to lecture about his experiences for the remainder of his life. I Found God in Soviet Russia complements the author's other book entitled I Was a Slave in Russia, which details the day-to-day life in the Soviet gulag.

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165904
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent by : John Garrard

Download or read book Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent written by John Garrard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Gorbachev launched by Communist Party hardliners. The Soviet Union disintegrated, leaving Russians searching for a usable past. The Garrards reveal how Patriarch Aleksy II--a former KGB officer and the man behind the church's successful defeat of the coup--is reconstituting a new national idea in the church's own image. In the new Russia, the former KGB who run the country--Vladimir Putin among them--proclaim the cross, not the hammer and sickle. Meanwhile, a majority of Russians now embrace the Orthodox faith with unprecedented fervor. The Garrards trace how Aleksy orchestrated this transformation, positioning his church to inherit power once held by the Communist Party and to become the dominant ethos of the military and government. They show how the revived church under Aleksy prevented mass violence during the post-Soviet turmoil, and how Aleksy astutely linked the church with the army and melded Russian patriotism and faith. Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent argues that the West must come to grips with this complex and contradictory resurgence of the Orthodox faith, because it is the hidden force behind Russia's domestic and foreign policies today.

Russia and the Universal Church

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Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis Russia and the Universal Church by : Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

Download or read book Russia and the Universal Church written by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Doctrine of the Russian Church

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book The Doctrine of the Russian Church written by Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Religion of the Russian People

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Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Book Synopsis The Religion of the Russian People by : Pierre Pascal

Download or read book The Religion of the Russian People written by Pierre Pascal and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia has long exercised a special fascination for people in the West, which has been increased recently by the publicity given to the dissent of its leading intellectuals. Western Christians, tortured by self-doubt and an agonizing revaluation of all their values, are now hearing new and strange voices from Russia that bear testimony to the strength of the Christian faith there. More than ever before it is necessary to explore the hidden strengths of the religion of the Russian people.

The CoMission

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Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575676834
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book The CoMission written by Moody Publishers and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story tells how the Gospel was taken to Russia over a five-year period, after the fall of communism when a new harvest field opened up. More than 80 ministries partnered together in a cooperative effort that is unparalleled, and documented here. It shows how the power of God can work when believers humble themselves and submit to one another, partnering together.

Between Heaven and Russia

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Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 082329952X
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Between Heaven and Russia by : Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Download or read book Between Heaven and Russia written by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans who look to Russian religion and politics for answers to western secularism and the loss of traditional family values in the face of accelerating progressivism. This ethnography highlights an intentional community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the US. These converts sought and found a conservatism more authentic than Christian American Republicanism and a nationalism unburdened by the broken promises of American exceptionalism. Ultimately, both converts and the Church that welcomes them deploy the subversive act of adopting the ideals and faith of a foreign power for larger, transnational political ends. Offering insights into this rarely considered religious world, including its far-right political roots that nourish the embrace of Putin’s Russia, this ethnography shows how religious conversion is tied to larger issues of social politics, allegiance, (anti)democracy, and citizenship. These conversions offer us a window onto both global politics and foreign affairs, while also allowing us to see how particular communities in the U.S. are grappling with social transformations in the twenty-first century. With broad implications for our understanding of both conservative Christianity and right-wing politics, as well as contemporary Russian-American relations, this book provides insight in the growing constellations of far-right conservatism. While Russian Orthodox converts are more likely to form the moral minority rather than the moral majority, they are an important gauge for understanding the powerful philosophical shifts occurring in the current political climate in the United States and what they might mean for the future of American values, ideals, and democracy.