Theology in the Russian Diaspora : Church, Fathers, Eucharist in Nikolai Afanas'ev (1893-1966) Paperback / softback
by Aidan Nichols
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780521091473
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780521091473