Turning to Tradition

Converts and the Making of an American Orthodox Church
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-932495-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Reihe: OXFORD UNIV PR

Recent years have seen increasing numbers of Protestant and Catholic Christians converting to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. In this book D. Oliver Herbel examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America during the twentieth century. These convert groups include Carpatho Rusyns, African Americans, and Evangelicals.

Religious mavericks have a long history in Americaa tradition of being anti-tradition. Converts to orthodoxy reject such individualism by embracing an ancient form of Christianity even as they exemplify it by choosing their own religious paths. Drawing on archival resources including Rusyn and Russian newspapers, unpublished internal church documents, personal archives, and personal interviews, Herbel presents a close examination of the theological reasons for the exemplary converts' own conversions as well as the reasons they offered to persuade those who followed them. He considers the conversions within the context of the American anti-tradition, and of racial and ethnic tensions in America. This book offers the first serious investigation of this important trend in American religion and the first in-depth investigation of any kind of African-American Orthodoxy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herbel, D. Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- Introduction

- Chapter 1: St. Alexis Toth, Leader of Eastern Catholic Converts

- Chapter 2: Fr. Raphael Morgan, and Early African American Orthodoxy

- Chapter 3: Fr. Moses Berry and the Order of St. Moses Black

- Chapter 4: The Conversion of Fr. Peter Gillquist and the Evangelical Orthodox Church

- Chapter 5: The Deconversion of the Evangelical Orthodox Church from the Anti-Traditional Tradition

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

D. Oliver (Fr. Oliver) Herbel holds a doctorate in historical theology from Saint Louis University. He is the author of Sarapion of Thmuis: Against the Manichaeans and Pastoral Letters as well as articles and book chapters, many of which concentrate on Orthodox Christianity in America. He currently serves as the priest of Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church in Fargo, ND, and as a chaplain in the North Dakota Air National Guard.