Books in the NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies series

Never before published, the theological thesis of St. Raphael Hawaweeny (1860-1915) is a fascinating work that shows the intersection of Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy in the late nineteenth century. Canonized by the Orthodox Church in 2000, St. Raphael was the first Orthodox bishop consecrated in the western...

Exploring patterns of popular devotion to the cult of the saints in both late imperial and early Soviet Russia, this title argues for an interpretation of Orthodoxy as a proactive faith grounded in the needs and realities of everyday life. It is of interest to Russian historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion.

A pivotal period in Russian history, the Time of Troubles in the early seventeenth century has taken on new resonance in the country's post-Soviet search for new national narratives. This title provides comprehensive study of the church during the Troubles.

Analyzes the response of major Orthodox thinkers to the Catholic understanding of the primacy of the pope over the last two centuries. This title brings together writings by Greek and Russian Orthodox theologians and compares them to demonstrate the emergence of a concordance between the canons of the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.

A book-length study of the medieval legend that Church Father and biblical translator St Jerome was a Slav who invented the Slavic (Glagolitic) alphabet and Roman Slavonic rite.

This lucidly written biography of Aleksandr Men examines the familial and social context from which Men developed as a Russian Orthodox priest. Wallace Daniel presents a different picture of Russia and the Orthodox Church than the stereotypes found in much of the popular literature. Men offered an alternative to the prescribed ways of thinking...

At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the...

"Shows how the Greek Orthodox Church became the most important Greek institution in the United States and the main force that shaped Greek American ethnic identity in the twentieth century"--

Arabic was one of the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. Yet in the West, scholars have all but forgotten about these texts. In this book, the authors bring these rich but overlooked works to English-language readers.

Focusing on the period between the revolutions of 1848-1849 and the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy explores the circumstances under which westerners, concerned about the fate of the papacy, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, and Russian imperial power, began to conflate the Russian Orthodox Church with the state and to portray the Church as the political tool of despotic tsars.As Heather L. Bailey demonstrates, in response to this reductionist view, Russian Orthodox publicists launched a public relations campaign in the West, especially in France, in the 1850s and 1860s. The linchpin of their campaign was the building of the impressive Saint Alexander Nevsky Church in Paris, consecrated in 1861. Bailey posits that, as the embodiment of the belief that Russia had a great historical purpose inextricably tied to Orthodoxy, the Paris church both reflected and contributed to the rise of religious nationalism in Russia that followed the Crimean War. At the same time, the confrontation with westerners' negative ideas about the Eastern Church fueled a reformist spirit in Russia while contributing to a better understanding of Eastern Orthodoxy in the West.

A strong case for reconsideration of Old Believers as a significant part of the Russian Orthodox tradition

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.