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Theology in the Russian Diaspora

Church, Fathers, Eucharist in Nikolai Afanas'ev (1893-1966)

by Aidan Nichols

  • Paperback
  • 312 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

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The author at the centre of this study, Russian priest-theologian Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, was perhaps the most influential thinker about the Church Russia has produced. In Aidan Nichols's careful evaluation, he emerges as a key figure in the rapprochement of Christian East and West, and most notably of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Nichols illustrates how Afanas'ev has been influential in two key respects: first of all in his conviction that the Eucharist constitutes the foundation of the whole Church; and secondly in his contribution to an Orthodox understanding of the role of the Roman Church and bishop in the context of a united Church. Afanas'ev's achievements are seen to have continuing relevance in view of the inauguration of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue at the monastery of St John on Patmos in 1980, and the importance of his thinking in terms of contemporary ecumenism becomes clear. It is to such a reappraisal that this book - concerned as it is with how Russian orthodoxy understands the Church - is devoted, in the hope of an eventual restoration of unity between the Orthodox of all the Russias and the see of Rome.
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  • Author

    Aidan Nichols

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    December 2008

  • Weight

    400g

  • Page Count

    312

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521091473

  • ISBN-10

    0521091470

  • Eden Code

    1237717

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