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Czarist Missionary Contact with Central Asia: Models of Contextualization?

open access: yes, 2007
Although the Western church knows little of these ventures, Russian Orthodoxy in fact has a rich missionary heritage. There have been instances of great courage, passion, and cultural sensitivity in Orthodox attempts to bring the Gospel to the Muslim ...
Johnstone, David M.
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Greek Orthodoxy in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
More than three million Greek Orthodox people exited Hellas, during the last four hundred years, in an effort to fulfil their personal ambition to amass wealth or to survive as the consequence of a long period of foreign domination and financial ...
Tamis, Anastasios M
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Russian Orthodoxy and the challenge of modernity: the case of Archimandrite Makary [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
The challenge of modernity for Orthodoxy as experienced by Archimandrite Makary (Mikhail lakovlevich Glukharev) is presented here through a brief exposition of Makary\u27s career, its successes, failures and inner tensions.
Valliere, Paul
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Establishment of Orthodox Palestine Society and Activities of M.P. Stepanov (1881-1883)

open access: yesНаучный диалог
This article explores the involvement of Colonel General Mikhail Petrovich Stepanov, an officer of the General Staff, in the formation of the Orthodox Palestine Society under Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.
A. A. Sorokin   +2 more
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Novgorod [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Novgorod’s crucial positioning between the Baltic and the north-eastern Rus principalities yielded a textual culture that was highly distinctive, especially in its use of birchbark documents, yet widely connected.
Bogatyrev, S
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Church unions and their consequences in Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Orthodox Christians in Poland have faced numerous attempts to be forced into union with the Roman Catholic Church, ranging from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.
Mironowicz, Antoni
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Hilandar Slavic Manuscript 280: Josephus' History of the Jewish Wars and the Tale of Constantinople [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The presentation discusses the first South Slavic copy of a prominent work by Josephus Flavius, The History of the Jewish War. In order to understand hieromonk Grigorije’s roles as scribe and “translator” of HM.SMS.280 and as the monastery’s ...
Jakovljevic, Zivojin
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Gregory the Great and a Post-Imperial Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Last Spring, quite out of the blue, I stumbled upon an essay by Catherine Keller that was so provocative that I am no longer able to think about the relationship between Christianity and Empire as I once did.
Demacopoulos, George
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Ohrid Literary School in the Period of Tzar Samoil and the Beginnings of the Russian Church Literature

open access: yes, 2017
The article is concerned with the role of St. Clement’s Church in the preservation and the spread of Cyril and Methodius’s literary tradition and Slavic church services.
Pop-Atanasov, Gjorgi
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Maps for Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
[Introduction] Opening address by Oakley West at exhibition: Maps: Knowledge and Power - A Teaching Exhibition at the Albany Museum, November 1992. Maps, like art, reflect man's perception of the world in which he lives.
Cosser, M, West, W O
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