The History of Russian Christianity Volume 1: From the by Daniel H. Shubin

By Daniel H. Shubin

From Apostle Andrew to the belief of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin offers the total historical past of Christianity in Russia in a 3-volume sequence. The occasions, humans and politics that solid the earliest traditions of Russian Christianity are provided objectively and intensively, describing the increase and dominance of the Russian Orthodox Church, the numerous dissenters and sectarian teams that advanced over the centuries (and their persecution), the presence of Catholicism and the inflow of Protestantism and Judaism and different minority religions into Russia. The historical past covers the better degrees of ecclesiastical job together with the involvement of tsars and princes, in addition to saints and serfs, and priests and mystics. This, the 1st quantity, offers with the interval from Apostle Andrew to the demise of Tsar Ivan the bad, simply sooner than the election of the 1st Russian Patriarch, a interval of just about 1600 years.

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In the Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical system, the metropolitan was answerable to his counterpart in the civil government and prelates and parish clergy were subject to the authority of the metropolitan. Each diocese had a bishop assigned to it, with an archbishop charged with overseeing several dioceses or holding authority over an especially large or important diocese, such as Novgorod. Golubinski notes that there is a strong possibility that the Russian Church never knew about the canon allowing Kievans to select their own metropolitan independently.

Along with this, at his accession to power in Kiev he set up statues of pagan deities on a hill outside his home: Perun, made of wood but with gold leaf and silver lips; also Khors-Dazh-bog and Stribog, Simargel and Mokosh. ) He sacrificed to them, calling them gods, and brought his sons and daughters as sacrifices to these demons. In his early years Vladimir defiled the land with his demands and 21 History of Russian Christianity filled the soil of Russia and the hill where he performed his sacrifices with blood.

When the prophecies were to be fulfilled, God descended to earth, was crucified, and after his resurrection ascended to heaven. Then he awaited their repentance for 46 years. ” The philosopher subsequently gave a very long sermon to Vladimir, in which he expounded in detail the entire sacred history of the Old and New Testaments from beginning to the end, from the creation of the world to the ascension of Jesus Christ and preaching of the apostles. ” Having said this, the philosopher showed Vladimir a large cloth upon which was depicted the awesome judgment of God, and showed him the righteous on the right side entering into paradise in joy, with sinners on the left side walking towards torment.

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