The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

551 Pages·2007·4.74 MB·English

by  Ken Parry

The Blackwell Companion
to Eastern Christianity
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The Blackwell Companion to
Eastern Christianity
Edited by
Ken Parry
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The Blackwell companion to Eastern Christianity / edited by Ken Parry.
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ISBN 978-0-631-23423-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Eastern churches. I. Parry, Kenneth, 1945–
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In Memoriam
My mother
Joan Parry (1920–2005)
an inspiration to all who knew her
and
David Melling (1943–2004)
philosopher, liturgist, and
generous friend

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xv
1 Arab Christianity 1
David Thomas
2 Armenian Christianity 23
Vrej Nerses Nersessian
3 Bulgarian Christianity 47
Ivan Zhelev Dimitrov
4 Byzantine Christianity 73
Hannah Hunt
5 Coptic Christianity 94
Janet A. Timbie
6 Ethiopian Christianity 117
David Appleyard
7 Georgian Christianity 137
Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.
8 Greek Christianity after 1453 156
Vrasidas Karalis
9 Romanian Christianity 186
Mircea Pacurariu
10 Russian Christianity 207
Basil Lourié
viii CONTENTS
11 Serbian Christianity 231
Radmila Radic´
12 Syriac Christianity 249
Heleen Murre-van den Berg
13 Eastern Christianity in the United States 269
Thomas FitzGerald
14 Eastern Christianity in China 280
Jeremias Norman
15 Eastern Catholic Christianity 291
Peter Galadza
16 Eastern Christian Liturgical Traditions:
Eastern Orthodox 319
Graham Woolfenden
17 Eastern Christian Liturgical Traditions:
Oriental Orthodox 339
Bryan D. Spinks
18 Eastern Christian Iconographic and Architectural Traditions:
Eastern Orthodox 368
Alexander Grishin
19 Eastern Christian Iconographic and Architectural Traditions:
Oriental Orthodox 388
Lucy-Anne Hunt
20 Eastern Christian Hagiographical Traditions:
Eastern Orthodox 420
Dimitri Brady
21 Eastern Christian Hagiographical Traditions:
Oriental Orthodox: Syriac Hagiography 439
Eva Synek
22 Eastern Christian Hagiographical Traditions:
Oriental Orthodox: Coptic Hagiography 450
Youhanna Nessim Youssef
23 Eastern Christian Hagiographical Traditions:
Oriental Orthodox: Armenian Hagiography 458
Vrej Nerses Nersessian
24 Sociology and Eastern Orthodoxy 462
Peter McMylor and Maria Vorozhishcheva
Index 480
Illustrations
Plates illustrating chapters 18 and 19 are collected between pages 384 and 385
18.1 Church of St Symeon the Stylite, Qal’at Sim’an, Syria, c.476–90.
Exterior view from the north-east.
18.2 Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, 532–7. Exterior view from the
south.
18.3 Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, 532–7. Interior view facing apse.
18.4 Deesis, mosaic, c.1261. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, south gallery.
18.5 Emperor Justinian, chancel mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna, c.546–7.
Detail of larger panel of Emperor Justinian with Bishop Maximian,
clergy, courtiers and soldiers.
18.6 Christ Pantocrator, encaustic icon, sixth century. Monastery of
St Catherine, Mount Sinai.
18.7 Apsidal cross, mosaic. Hagia Eirene, Constantinople, c.753.
18.8 Theotokos and Child, apsidal mosaic, 967. Hagia Sophia,
Constantinople.
18.9 Monastery of Daphni, katholikon, near Athens, Greece, c.1100.
Exterior view from north-east.
18.10 Pantocrator, dome mosaic. Daphni katholikon, c.1100.
18.11 Monastery of Hosios Loukas, Greece, late tenth and early eleventh
centuries. Exterior view from the east.
18.12 Nativity of Christ, fresco. Karanlik Kilise, Göreme Valley,
Cappadocia, c.1060s.
18.13 Threnos (Lamentation), fresco. Nerezi, Macedonia, 1164.
18.14 Crucifi xion, fresco. Katholikon of the Monastery of the Virgin,
Studenica, Serbia, 1209.
18.15 Anastasis, aspidal fresco. Parekklesion, Chora Monastery,
Constantinople, c.1315–21.