Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

A Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9449-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

An insightful and rigorously researched biography of Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, the former leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain.

Andrei Bloom (1914-2003) better known as Anthony Bloom, or Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, led an extraordinary life. He was an individual who sought to be in touch with his God yet in solidarity with and responsibility for a tragically disconnected society; a man of God who "knew the world". From the difficulties of Russian émigré life that conditioned him as "a monk without a monastery", through the trials and suffering of war and revolution, to his calling as Priest and Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain, he moved between many changing landscapes, striving always to take his bearings in prayer and contemplation.

In spite of the collapse of their whole way of life, his parents brought him up to be a generous and courteous friend to those around him. As a surgeon and doctor in German-occupied France, he would provide treatment to those in need irrespective of ethnic or ideological affiliation. In his character, joy in the good and the beautiful was compounded with ardor and tragic depths. This biography explores how Metropolitan Anthony sought the mind of Christ to cultivate and control his own loving heart and occasionally harsh exigence.

Avril Pyman draws on a mosaic of available evidence to offer deeper insight into the life and times of a remarkable spiritual teacher, charismatic speaker and priest whose cosmopolitan background, character and experience of science and medicine made a unique and significant contribution to Orthodox Christian thought and practice throughout the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pyman, Avril

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements

1. From Prince to Pauper: Origins and Childhood, 1914-1922
2. Alienation and Revelation: Growing up in Exile, 1922-1929
3. Conflicting Vocations: The Formation of a Monk "in the World", 1928-1937
4. Surgeon in the French Army and Monk in the Surgery, 1937-1949
5. Priesthood, Move to London, Ministry in the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain, 1949-1957
6. Fame in a Divided World, 1957-1963
7. The International Arena, 1963-1974
8. The Consolidation of the Second Diocese of Sourozh, 1974-1989
9. Mission to Russia and New Problems in England, 1983-2003
10. Agony

Endnotes
Glossary of Proper Names
Index of Proper Names