Edité par Texas A&M University Press, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10 : 1585443328 ISBN 13 : 9781585443321
Vendeur : The Enigmatic Reader, Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good.
Edité par Texas A&M University Press April 2004, 2004
ISBN 10 : 1585443328 ISBN 13 : 9781585443321
Vendeur : Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : New. Early on, historian Jennifer Jean Wynot takes her stand: Russian monasticism and the Russian Orthodox Church as a whole, survived and preserved the integrity of the Orthodox faith By means of adaptation rather than accommodation during one of the most violent and arduous eras of Russian history. Her position directly contradicts that of the ''Catacomb Church'' and its emigre counterpart, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), who still consider the Russian Patriarchal Church to be a traitor to the faith. Using previously unavailable Russian archives, Wynot organizes her research around historical periods of the Soviet regime. She first offers background material illustrating the position of the monasteries prior to the 1917 Revolution then considers the effects made by the Revolution and Civil War, the period of New Economic Policy, Stalin's collectivization effort, the resulting Russian Orthodox schism of 1927, and the purges of monasteries leading up to World War II. Let it be known that Wynot's study is not devotional or particularly polemic. Though her view will be deemed controversial by some, she primarily fills an historical gap concerning the monasteries' important role in the Russian story during this period. With the dissolution of most of the monasteries shortly before and then after WWII, Russian monasticism went underground but did not pass away. Ms. Wynot does well to remind us that the religious life does not depend on whether or not one lives in a monastery, but rather how one allows his life to be transformed by the tenets of the monastic rule.