A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy
A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy
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通往教堂的长途步行：俄罗斯东正教当代史
DOI：
10.2307/1386568
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发表时间：
1994
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
N. Davis
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作者：
J. Pankhurst;N. Davis
纳撒尼尔·戴维斯通过查阅历史档案，考察了俄罗斯东正教在几次极端政治和社会政权下的转型。纳撒尼尔·戴维斯利用苏联政府以前的秘密档案，描述了俄罗斯东正教如何在过去的六十五年里两次濒临制度性消亡的边缘。 1939年，只有少数分散在各地的神父仍在公开活动。具有讽刺意味的是，希特勒的入侵和斯大林的反应拯救了教堂——教区重新开放，新的神职人员和主教被祝圣，选举了一位宗主教，并重新建立了神学院和修道院。然而，斯大林去世后，赫鲁晓夫又恢复了对宗教的攻击。戴维斯透露，1948 年至 1988 年间，教会力量受到的侵蚀比之前所知的还要严重，而且苏联政府在俄罗斯皈依基督教的千年到来之际改变了政策，这一点也不算太早。最近，共产主义的崩溃给俄罗斯东正教带来了令人眼花缭乱的机遇和令人畏惧的麻烦。新修订和更新的版本涉及近年来的动荡事件，包括乌克兰、爱沙尼亚和摩尔多瓦的分裂，以及教会传统主义者、保守派和改革派之间的对抗。作者还介绍了南部和东部与希腊天主教徒、罗马天主教徒、新教传教士和异教徒的斗争、末代沙皇的封圣、教会的金融危机，以及俄罗斯东正教复苏和增长放缓的硬数据。制度重建和道德领导现在在希望和可能性之间召唤。
Through an examination of historical archives, Nathaniel Davis examines the Russian Orthodox Church's transformation through several extreme political and social regimes.. Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on the brink of institutional extinction twice in the past sixty-five years. In 1939, only a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly. Ironically, Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church -- and parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. However, after Stalin's death, Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals that the erosion of church strength between 1948 and 1988 was greater than previously known and it was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity. More recently, the collapse of communism has created a mixture of dizzying opportunity and daunting trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. The newly revised and updated edition addresses the tumultuous events of recent years, including schisms in Ukraine, Estonia, and Moldova, and confrontations between church traditionalists, conservatives and reformers. The author also covers battles against Greek-Catholics, Roman Catholics, Protestant evangelists, and pagans in the south and east, the canonization of the last Czar, the church's financial crisis, and hard data on the slowing Russian orthodox recovery and growth. Institutional rebuilding and moral leadership now beckon between promise and possibility.