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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.

The bitter separation of Ukraine's Orthodox churches is a microcosm of its societal strife. From 1917 onward, church leaders failed to agree on the church's mission in the twentieth century. The core issues of dispute were establishing independence from the Russian church and adopting Ukrainian as the language of worship. Decades of polemical...

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.

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.