The Creation of the Moscow Patriarchate: A Prelude to Patriarchal Reforms in the Kyivan Metropolitanate Preceding the Union of Brest (1595-1596)

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The Creation of the Moscow Patriarchate: A Prelude to Patriarchal Reforms in the Kyivan Metropolitanate Preceding the Union of Brest (1595-1596)
by Borys A. Gudziak

LOGOS: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Vol. 37, Nos. 1-4 (1996)
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Also available through WorldCat on loan from libraries. TOC:

Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral–Harvard, 1992).
Description: xv, 489 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction. The Late-Medieval Metropolitanate of Kyiv and the Patriarchate of Constantinople
1. Crisis in the Christian East: The Patriarchate of Constantinople under Ottoman Rule
2. Patriarch Jeremiah II and the Challenges of Reform
3. The Union of Florence, the Greek East, and the Kyivan Metropolitanate
4. The Crisis in the Kyivan Metropolitanate in the Sixteenth Century
5. Challenge from the Christian West
6. Orthodox Emissaries to the East Slavic Lands
7. The Introduction of Printing and the Onset of Ruthenian Religious Reform
8. Konstantyn Ostrozkyi, the Ostrih Circle, and Representatives of the Greek East
9. The L’viv Confraternity and the Greek East
10. Eastern Patriarchs in Ruthenian Lands
11. The Creation of the Moscow Patriarchate
12. Patriarch Jeremiah, the Kyivan Hierarchy, and Ecclesiastical Reform
13. The Kyivan Hierarchy, the Brest Synods, and Union with Rome
Conclusion. The Union of Brest and the Greek East.

WorldCat Abstract:
Crisis and Reform explains and reevaluates one of the most controversial events in Slavic church history, the Union of Brest (1596), through which the majority of the Ruthenian hierarchy recognized the supremacy of the pope in Rome while retaining its Slavonic-Byzantine liturgical tradition and ethos. Dr. Gudziak analyzes the movement of spiritual and cultural reform in the Kyivan Metropolitanate in light of its traditional relationship with the Great Church in Constantinople and in the face of the vibrant challenges presented by the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform movements flourishing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the broader European context.

Crisis and Reform will be of interest to specialists in East European cultural and religious history and to all interested in understanding the religious landscape of Eastern Europe today.