(Ebook) A History of Russian Christianity (Vol III) The Synodal Era and the Sectarians 1725 to 1894 by Daniel H. Shubin ISBN 9780875864259, 9780875864266, 0875864252, 0875864260

(Ebook) A History of Russian Christianity (Vol III) The Synodal Era and the Sectarians 1725 to 1894 by Daniel H. Shubin ISBN 9780875864259, 9780875864266, 0875864252, 0875864260

From Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a 3-volume series. The events, people and politics that forged the earliest traditions of Russian Christianity are presented objectively and intensively, describing the rise and dominance of the Russian Orthodox Church, the many dissenters and sectarian groups that evolved over the centuries (and their persecution), the presence of Catholicism and the influx of Protestantism and Judaism and other minority religions into Russia. The history covers the higher levels of ecclesiastical activity including the involvement of tsars and princes, as well as saints and serfs, and monks and mystics. This, the first volume, deals with the period from Apostle Andrew to the death of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, just prior to the election of the first Russian Patriarch, a period of almost 1600 years.