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The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, 2 Volume Set
John Antho McGuckin
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Description for The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, 2 Volume Set
Hardback. With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume En cyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today. Editor(s): McGuckin, John Anthony. Num Pages: 872 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: GBC; HRCC8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 188 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1782.
With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today.
With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today.
- An outstanding reference work providing the first English language multi-volume account of the key historical, liturgical, doctrinal features of Eastern Orthodoxy, including the Non-Chalcedonian churches
- Explores of the major traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy in detail, including the Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopic, Slavic, Romanian, Syriac churches
- Uniquely comprehensive, it is edited by one of the leading scholars in the field and ... Read more
- Spans the period from Late Antiquity to the present, encompassing subjects including history, theology, liturgy, monasticism, sacramentology, canon law, philosophy, folk culture, architecture, archaeology, martyrology, hagiography, all alongside a large and generously detailed prosopography
- Structured alphabetically and topically cross-indexed, with entries ranging from 100 to 6,000 words
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
872
Condition
New
Number of Pages
872
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405185394
SKU
V9781405185394
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About John Antho McGuckin
John Anthony McGuckin is Nielsen Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary, and Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University in New York. A Stavrofor priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America, Professor McGuckin is the author of more than twenty books on religious and historical themes, including The Orthodox Church (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and is widely ... Read more
Reviews for The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, 2 Volume Set
“The paperback edition is a valuable and affordable resource, which I recommend as a compendium for historians, religionists, and theologians alike.” (Religious Studies Review, 4 June 2015) “In short, this Encyclopedia, is a useful tool that offers valuable basic information on many aspects of the Orthodox world.” (Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 1 March 2014) “The ... Read more