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THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO EASTERN CHRISTIANITY "Consistently highly readable and engrossing. This is an excellent overview of Eastern Christianity." Expository Times "A masterful description of the major living traditions of Eastern Christianity. Its 24 chapters, each written by an accomplished scholar in the field, address the dominant ethnic and cultural categories of Eastern Christianity (Arab, Byzantine, etc.) along with their most characteristic features (liturgy, iconography, and hagiography). Each offers a concise, well-organized, and highly readable overview of the tradition in question, along with a representative bibliography ... Highly recommended." CHOICE "Christian emigration, not least from the Middle East, means that there are growing communities of Eastern Christians in the West ... Eastern Christians are now companions to Western; and the latter will learn much about the former from this Blackwell companion." Church Times "A distinctive addition to the companion series and to its chosen sphere of knowledge." Reference Reviews "A worthwhile collection, and one that should prove useful." Ecclesiastical History Recent political events in the Middle East and Eastern Europe have brought Eastern Christianity to global attention. The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity provides an unparalleled account of the history and development of these vital Christian traditions, at the same time placing contemporary events in their full context. The companion provides authoritative and lively essays on the main Eastern Orthodox traditions, such as the Greek, Russian, and Georgian churches, as well as the Oriental Orthodox traditions, including the Armenian, Coptic, and Syrian churches. The in-depth articles, which are written by an international team of experts, offer a comprehensive survey of the history, theology, doctrine, worship, art, culture, and politics that make up the churches of Eastern Christianity. The companion can also be used alongside the respected Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999), providing detailed discussions and assessments to complement the dictionary's shorter entries.

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Autor

Ken Parry is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief of The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (Blackwell, 1999) and has contributed to numerous other books and journals on Byzantine Christianity and the Christian East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470766392
• Artikelnr.: 38207153

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"This book is written in scholarly fashion but is consistentlyhighly readable and engrossing. This is an excellent overview ofEastern Christianity." (Expository Times, November 2008)

"A masterful description of the major living traditions ofEastern Christianity. Its 24 chapters, each written by anaccomplished scholar in the field, address the dominant ethnic andcultural categories of Eastern Christianity (Arab, Byzantine, etc.)along with their most characteristic features (liturgy,iconography, and hagiography). Each offers a concise,well-organized, and highly readable overview of the tradition inquestion, along with a representative bibliography ... Highlyrecommended. Academic libraries and theological collections;upper-level

undergraduates through faculty/researchers."(CHOICE)

"A distinctive addition to the companion series and to itschosen sphere of knowledge." (Reference Reviews)

"Christian emigration, not least from the Middle East,means that there are growing communities of Eastern Christians inthe West ... Eastern Christians are now companions to Western;and the latter will learn much about the former from this BlackwellCompanion." (Church Times)

"A worthwhile collection, and one that should prove useful."(Eccliastical History)"The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity is quiteunlike anything else available. It provides a scholarly andauthoritative introduction to Eastern Christianity in its myriadvariety, covering all the different geographical regions from theBalkans to China and reaching across to the States, and includingall jurisdictions. It gives succinct accounts of their history anddoctrine, with separate sections on liturgy, iconography andhagiography. Brilliant!"
-Andrew Louth, University of Durham

"This latest addition to the Blackwell Companion seriesconstitutes the most comprehensive, authoritative and elegantaccount of the Eastern Churches ever published. Its twenty-fourchapters, each the work of a specialist, combine full accounts ofthe history and life of each church with a series of outstandingsurveys of their liturgical, iconographical and hagiographicaltraditions. The surveys of Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodoxliturgies are a formidable achievement and will be invaluable tostudents of liturgy Eastern and Western. This work is a definitivesynthesis which will stimulate interest in the Eastern Churches ata time when many of them are under threat because of politicalupheavals. It will also provide a starting point for the furtherstudy of their fascinating traditions. Scholarship will long be inthe debt of Ken Parry, the editor and organizing mind behind thiswonderful collection."
-John Healey, University of Manchester

"A fitting companion volume to Parry's The BlackwellDictionary of Eastern Christianity, this large enterprise willbecome an indispensable reference work for the study of EasternChristianities from Egypt to China to USA. Particularly welcome isits emphasis on varying liturgical, iconographical, architectural,and hagiographical traditions."
-Pauline Allen, Australian Catholic University,Brisbane