Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe

This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations.

Autorentext

Sebastian Rimestad is a senior researcher at the Department of Religious Studies specialising in Christianity. He is the author of The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1945) (2012), and has published numerous articles on various topics connected with Orthodox Christianity and religion in modernising societies.

Inhalt

Preface; Notes on Terminology; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Orthodox Faithful as 'Diaspora'? The Pastoral Discourse; 3 The Territoriality of Orthodox Church Structures: The Ecclesiological Discourse; 4 Orthodox Jurisdictions as Organisations: The Institutional Discourse; 5 The Christian Church as One: The Ecumenical Discourse; 6 Conclusion