Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual: Stokvis Studies in Historial Chronology and: Second Edition: 1 (Stovis Studies in Historical Chronology & Thought) - Softcover

Burgess, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0893704261 ISBN 13: 9780893704261

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2017

Synopsis

The Eastern Orthodox Churches are unique among the Commonwealth of Christianity. Surrounded by governments inimical to their survival, subjected to continual persecution, at war constantly with other denominations and with each other, they have survived and even thrived under the most difficult of conditions. The key to their survivial has been their strongly centralized governments, their sense of purpose and self-identity, and in many cases a melding of religious interests with state nationalism. At the heart of each church is an elected pope, patriarch, catholicos, archbishop, or metropolitan, a man who has almost total authority in directing the future of each denomination. They are the last bastion in the twentieth century of the absolute monarch.

Lords Temporal is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive list of the Eastern Church leaders since publication of Michel Le Quien's "Oriens Christianus" in 1740. The sixty-four churces are arranged alphabetically by chief see, with brief histories of each denomination, source citations, and a chronolocial checklist of their patriarchs or other elected heads. Also included are a Selected Bibliography, Statistical Tables, Comparative Name Tables, and a complete Index of the 4,700 Primates in alphabetical order by the name under which each is best known. This comprehensive, well-documented guide is a facsimile reprint of the revised Second Edition [1995], which added fifteen new denominations and 200 additional pages of text.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893704261
• ISBN 13: 9780893704261
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336