The History of the Christian Church Until the Great Schism of 1054 - Softcover

Herman, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141847326X ISBN 13: 9781418473266

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

The History of the Christian Church until the Great Schism of 1054 is a sincere and unbiased history of the Church, written by the Russian historian and theologian Mikhail Posnov. Posnov through this study of Church history discovered the importance of the teaching authority of the Bishop of Rome. The book has been called a most valuable tool for students of Christian Church history. The most important characteristic of the text is its original and profound use of primary historical sources. The book is neither polemical nor triumphalistic but scholarly in its pursuit of truth concerning the period of the undivided Church. It should be an impetus to reconciliation and understanding for Catholic and Orthodox Christians and a source of great insight into the early Church for Protestant Christians.

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About the Author:

Mikhail Emmanuelovich Posnov was born in 1873 in Ryazan, Russia where he received his early education. He received his higher education at the Kiev Theological Academy. After finishing the Academy he became an associate professor there. In 1908 he was chosen as associate professor of the University of St. Vladimir in Kiev in the department of Church History. In 1910 he became professor of the Kiev Academy in the faculty of Holy Scripture, New Testament. In 1919 he was chosen university professor. After the Bolshevik revolution he taught at the Theological Academy of Sofia and the University of Sofia in Bulgaria. He died in October 1931 in Sofia without having published this History of the Christian Church. Posnov's study of the history of the early Church led him to recognize the teaching authority of the Bishop of Rome. His other works include, "Gnosticism of the Second Century, and the Triumph of Christianity over Gnosticism." His daughter, Irina Posnova, was for many years after his death a leader of the Russian Catholic community of Belgium, where the Russian edition of this book was published.TRANSLATORThomas E. Herman is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins Medical

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 141847326X
• ISBN 13: 9781418473266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 548