Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T10:56:14.824Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

20 - Western “Confessions” and Eastern Christianity

from Part Two - Schools and Emerging Cultures of Theology: Diversity and Conformity within Confessions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2023

By
Yury P. Avvakumov
Edited by
Kenneth G Appold  and
Nelson Minnich
Kenneth G Appold
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
Nelson Minnich
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Get access

Summary

The notion of “Eastern Christianity” covers an extensive variety of ecclesiastical traditions – Chalcedonian (“Byzantine”/“Melkite”), pre-Chalcedonian (“Miaphysite”/“Jacobite”), and pre-Ephesian (“Nestorian”/“Chaldean”) – that originated in Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire and neighboring lands. This vast area, including the region surrounding the Mediterranean from the Balkan peninsula through Asia Minor, south Caucasus, upper Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, gave birth to a diversity of Christian cultures using Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Armenian, and Coptic as the languages of their theological and liturgical traditions. Islamic conquests that began in the seventh century brought about an increasing Arabization of Eastern Christian cultures in the territories under Muslim control, but the identity of Eastern Christianity remained clearly bound to its Late Antique origins.

Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology , pp. 385 - 402
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Freudenberger, Theobald. “Das Konzil von Trient und das Ehescheidungsrecht der Ostkirche: Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Canons 7 de matrimonio.” In Suttner, Ernst-Christoph and Patock, Coelestin, eds., Wegzeichen: Festgabe Hermenegild Biedermann. Würzburg, 1971, 149–187.Google Scholar
Gil, Andrzej and Skoczylas, Ihor. Koœcio³y wschodnie w pañstwie polsko-litewskim w procesie przemian i adaptacji: Metropolia Kijowska w latach 1458-1795. Lublin and Lvov, 201.Google Scholar
Gudziak, Borys A. Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest. Cambridge, MA, 2001.Google Scholar
Hering, Gunnar. Ökumenisches Patriarchat und europäische Politik 1620–1638. Wiesbaden, 1968.Google Scholar
Hering, Gunnar. “Orthodoxie und Protestantismus.” Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 31 (1981), 823–874.Google Scholar
Heyberger, Bernard. Les Chrétiens du Proche-Orient au temps de la Réforme Catholique (Syrie, Liban, Palestine, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles. Rome, 1994.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hofmann, Georg. Griechische Patriarchen und Römische Päpste: Untersuchungen und Texte. Volume II/1: Patriarch Kyrillos Lukaris und die Römische Kirche [Orientalia Christiana XV–1]. Rome, 1929.Google Scholar
Marte, Johann and Turij, Oleh, eds. Die Union von Brest (1596) in Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung: Versuch einer Zwischenbilanz. Lvov, 2008.Google Scholar
Mastrantonis, George. Augsburg and Constantinople: The Correspondence between the Tubingen Theologians and the Patriarch Jeremiah II of Constantinople on the Augsburg Confession. Brookline, 1982.Google Scholar
Papademetriou, Tom. Render unto the Sultan: Power, Authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the Early Ottoman Centuries. Oxford, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Podskalsky, Gerhard. Griechische Theologie in der Zeit der Türkenherrschaft (1453–1821): Die Orthodoxie im Spannungsfeld der nachreformatorischen Konfessionen des Westens. Munich, 1988.Google Scholar
Runciman, Steven. The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence. Cambridge, 1968.Google Scholar
Suttner, Ernst Christoph. Quellen zur Geschichte der Kirchenunionen des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Freiburg, 2010.Google Scholar
Todt, Klaus-Peter. “Dositheos II. von Jerusalem.” In Conticello, Carmelo Giuseppe and Conticello, Vassa, eds., Le théologie byzantine et sa tradition., volume II: (XIIIe–XIXes). Turnhout, 2002, 659–720.Google Scholar
Todt, Klaus-Peter. “Kyrillos Lukaris.” In Conticello, Carmelo Giuseppe and Conticello, Vassa, eds., Le théologie byzantine et sa tradition, volume II: (XIIIe–XIXes). Turnhout, 2002, 617–651.Google Scholar
Wendebourg, Dorothea. Reformation und Orthodoxie: Der ökumenische Briefwechsel zwischen der Leitung der Württembergischen Kirche und Patriarch Jeremias II. von Konstantinopel in den Jahren 1573–1581. Göttingen, 1986.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×