The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity by Ken Parry

The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity by Ken Parry

Now available in paperback, this Companion offers anunparalleled survey of the history, theology, doctrine, worship,art, culture and politics that make up the churches of EasternChristianity.

"Consistently highly readable and engrossingThis is an excellent overview of Eastern Christianity." (Expository Times)

"A masterful description of the major living traditions of Eastern Christianity. Its 24 chapters, each written by an accomplished scholar in the field, address the dominant ethnic and cultural categories of Eastern Christianity (Arab, Byzantine, etc.) along with their most characteristic features (liturgy, iconography, and hagiography). Each offers a concise, well-organized, and highly readable overview of the tradition in question, along with a representative bibliography ... Highly recommended." (CHOICE)

"Christian emigration, not least from the Middle East, means that there are growing communities of Eastern Christians in the West ... Eastern Christians are now companions to Western; and the latter will learn much about the former from this Blackwell Companion." (Church Times)

"A distinctive addition to the companion series and to its chosen sphere of knowledge." (Reference Reviews)

"A worthwhile collection, and one that should prove useful." (Ecclesiastical History)

KEN PARRY is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief of The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999) and has contributed to numerous other books and journals on Byzantine Christianity and the Christian East.

Contributors to this volume:

David Appleyard, Dimitri Brady, Ivan Zhelev Dimitrov, Thomas FitzGerald, Peter Galadza, Alexander Grishin, Hannah Hunt, Lucy-Anne Hunt, Vrasidas Karalis, Basil Lourié, Peter McMylor, Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Vrej Nerses Nersessian, Jeremias Norman, Mircea Pacurariu, Ken Parry, Radmila Radiç, Stephen H. Rapp, Jr., Bryan D. Spinks, Eva Synek, David Thomas, Janet A. Timbie, Maria Vorozhishcheva, Graham Woolfenden, Youhanna Nessim Youssef.

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ISBN 13	9781444333619
ISBN 10	1444333615
Title	The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity
Author	Ken Parry
Series	Wiley Blackwell Companions To Religion
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Year published	2010-05-10
Number of pages	526
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