The A to Z of the Orthodox Church

Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the loist known and most misunderstood. The A to Z of the Orthodox Church provides students, researchers, and specialists with a desk encyclopedia of the theology and theologians, saints, sinners, places, and events of the Eastern Church. Two millennia are surveyed in more than five hundred concise entries, concentrating primarily on the last 150 years. This volume includes an overview of the early Church through the Byzantine and Russian Empires to the present multinational Orthodox presence in the ecumenical movement. Many of the general entries cannot be found elsewhere in English, and a comprehensive compilation of biographies of 19th- and 20th-century Orthodox theologians (American, Russian, Greek, and many other nationalities) is included, as well as a detailed 4,000-year chronology, illustrations, extensive bibliography, and an appendix listing canonical patriarchs and autocephalous churches.

Mfchaei Prokurat was assistant professor of scripture at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary, Houston. Alexander Golitzin is assistant professor at the Department of Theology at Marquette University. Michael D Peterson is a bibliographer and branch librarian at the San Anselmo collection of the Graduate Theological Union Library. Berkeley.