| Theology in the Russian Diaspora: Church, Fathers, Eucharist in Nikolai Afanas'ev (1893 1966) Contributor(s): Nichols, Aidan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521091470 ISBN-13: 9780521091473 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: The author at the centre of this study, Russian priest-theologian Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, was perhaps the most influential thinker about the Church Russia has produced. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Theology |
| Dewey: 262.009 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.62" W x 8.46" (0.89 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: The author at the centre of this study, Russian priest-theologian Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, was perhaps the most influential thinker about the Church Russia has produced. In Aidan Nichols's careful evaluation, he emerges as a key figure in the rapprochement of Christian East and West, and most notably of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Nichols illustrates how Afanas'ev has been influential in two key respects: first of all in his conviction that the Eucharist constitutes the foundation of the whole Church; and secondly in his contribution to an Orthodox understanding of the role of the Roman Church and bishop in the context of a united Church. Afanas'ev's achievements are seen to have continuing relevance in view of the inauguration of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue at the monastery of St John on Patmos in 1980, and the importance of his thinking in terms of contemporary ecumenism becomes clear. It is to such a reappraisal that this book - concerned as it is with how Russian orthodoxy understands the Church - is devoted, in the hope of an eventual restoration of unity between the Orthodox of all the Russias and the see of Rome. |