Book description
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.
- 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 provides authoritative but accessible
articles by a range of top international academics and Orthodox figures
- 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
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 considered one of the leading
experts on Early Christian and Eastern Orthodox traditions writing
today.
