The Theology of Orthodox Patriotism: Ecclesiology
The Theology of Orthodox Patriotism: Eschatology
The Theology of Orthodox Patriotism: Pneumatology
The Lure of Nationalism: Ethnic Nationalism and the Russian Empire
The Lure of Nationalism: Conservative Clergy in the Wake of 1905
The Lure of Nationalism: Converting the Nationalists
The Lure of Nationalism: John Vostorgov and the Orthodox National State
The Lure of Nationalism: Conclusion – Vladimir Skvortsov and Political Mobilization
These readings are taken from:
The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism Before the Revolution
by John Strickland
ISBN: 9781942699279
This book is a critical study of the interaction between Russian Church and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. At a time of rising nationalist movement throughout Europe, Orthodox patriots advocated for the place of the Church as a unifying force, central to the identity and purpose of the burgeoning, yet increasingly religiously diverse Russian Empire. Their views were articulated in a variety of ways. Bishops such as Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky—a founding hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia—and other members of the clergy expressed their vision of Russia through official publications (including ecclesiastical journals), sermons, the organization of pilgrimages and the canonization of saints. On the other hand, religious intellectuals (such as the famous philosopher Vladimir Soloviev and the controversial former-Marxist Sergey Bulgakov) promoted what was often a variant vision of the nation through the publication of books and articles. Even the once persecuted Old Believers, emboldened by a religious toleration edict of 1905, sought to claim a role in national leadership. And many—in particular famous painter Viktor Vasnetsov—looked to art and architecture as a way of defining the religious ideals of modern Russia. Whilst other studies exist that draw attention to the voices in the Church typified as “liberal” in the years leading up to the Revolution, this work introduces the reader to a wide range of “conservative” opinion that equally strove for spiritual renewal and the spread of the Gospel. Ultimately neither the “conservative” voices presented here nor those of their better-known “liberal” protagonists were able to prevent the calamity that befell Russia with the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. Grounded in original research conducted in the newly accessible libraries and archives of post-Soviet Russia, this study is intended to reveal the wider relevance of its topic to an ongoing discussion of the relationship between national or ethnic identities on the one hand and the self-understanding of Orthodox Christianity as a universal and transformative Faith on the other.
Music:
Sticheron “On the Praises” (Pentecost) and Eirmos of the Ninth Ode (Theophany).
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