The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom write by Jack Fairey. This book was released on 2015-09-15. The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new political history of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire explains why Orthodoxy became the subject of acute political competition between the Great Powers during the mid 19th century. It also explores how such rivalries led, paradoxically, both to secularizing reforms and to Europe's last great war of religion - the Crimean War.
The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom
The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom write by Jack Fairey. This book was released on 2014-01-14. The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new political history of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire explains why Orthodoxy became the subject of acute political competition between the Great Powers during the mid 19th century. It also explores how such rivalries led, paradoxically, both to secularizing reforms and to Europe's last great war of religion - the Crimean War.
God, Hierarchy, and Power
God, Hierarchy, and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God, Hierarchy, and Power write by Ashley M. Purpura. This book was released on 2017-11-07. God, Hierarchy, and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the challenging questions: “Why is hierarchy maintained as the model of organizing the church, and what are the theological justifications for its persistence?” These questions are especially significant for historically and contemporarily understanding how Orthodox Christians negotiate their spiritual ideals with the challenges of their social and ecclesiastical realities. To critically address these questions, this book offers four case studies of historically disparate Byzantine theologians from the sixth to the fourteenth-centuries—Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Niketas Stethatos, and Nicholas Cabasilas—who significantly reflect on the relationship between spiritual authority, power, and hierarchy in theoretical, liturgical, and practical contexts. Although Dionysius the Areopagite has been the subject of much scholarly interest in recent years, the applied theological legacy of his development of “hierarchy” in the Christian East has not before been explored. Relying on a common Dionysian heritage, these Byzantine authors are brought into a common dialogue to reveal a tradition of constructing authentic ecclesiastical hierarchy as foremost that which communicates divinity.
Security after Christendom
Security after Christendom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Security after Christendom write by John Heathershaw. This book was released on 2024-02-13. Security after Christendom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We live in the wealthiest and most heavily defended world in history, so why do we feel so insecure? In a secular world, what does Christian theology have to say about this problem? Security after Christendom combines practical examples, social scientific research, and an ecumenical approach to political theology to answer these questions. It argues that Christendom was a plural phenomenon of imagined security communities of East and West whose unravelling continues to have implications for global politics today, as dramatically illustrated by Russia’s war in Ukraine. While notions of a new Christendom are idolatrous and delusional, secular imaginaries of national security or the liberal international order are both destructive and unstable. True security—radical inclusion, nonviolent protection, and abundant provision—is an eschatological phenomenon, inaugurated by Christ. Security after Christendom is neither found in faithful government nor an exclusive church-as-polis approach but in relations of tension where the fallen powers are continuously confronted by prophetic practices. A post-Christendom community expresses its love for the world by seeking its security, providentially limiting the disorders of the secular age, and offering glimmers of a new earth.
Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War
Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War write by Terry Tastard. This book was released on 2022-10-06. Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Infectious disease, wounded and dying soldiers, and a shortage of supplies were the daily realities faced by the nuns who nursed with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. This study documents their involvement in the conflict and how the nuns bore witness to the effects of carnage and official indifference, in many cases traumatized as a result. This book reflects on the initiative and courage shown by the nuns and how their actions can be viewed as part of a wider movement among women in the mid-19th century to find fulfilment and assert control in their own lives. Nightingale's Nuns and the Crimean War also sheds light on how critics at the time accused many of the nuns of being secret agents of the Catholic Church who preyed on vulnerable soldier patients; there was a campaign in parliament to regulate and control convents. Terry Tastard shows how the nuns attempted to neutralize this anti-Catholicism, as well as charting the participation of Anglican nuns who had just begun an astonishing project to revive the religious life in the Church of England. Finally the book reveals new insights into Florence Nightingale's relationships with the nuns who nursed with her in Crimea and how these experiences impacted Nightingale's own perspective.
