Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe by Sebastian Ri... - 9780367632533

Taylor & Francis

Orthodox Christian Identity in Western EuropeContesting Religious Authority\nAuthor(s): Sebastian Rimestad\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367632533, 978-0367632533\nSynopsis\nThis book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the challenges the Orthodox Church is facing in the modern world. \n\nOrganised along four different discursive fields, the book uses these fields to analyse the Orthodox Church in Western Europe during the twentieth century. It explores pastoral, ecclesiological, institutional and ecumenical discourses in order to present a holistic view of how the Church views itself and how it seeks to interact with other denominations. Taken together, these four fiel.