Eastern Orthodox Christianity: the essential texts

Part I. Origins and metamorphoses

Beginnings, scripture, and patristics

New sect

New church : Constantine and Constantinople

Incarnational theology and Arian controversies

Reaction

Trinitarian debates

Priests and bishops

Early monasticism

Christianity and the Byzantine state

Holy fools

Eastern trends in Christian theology

Marriage and women in the early church

Holy women

Part II. Growth and schisms. Holy objects

Missions to the north : Balkans and Rus'

Iconoclastic controversy

Hesychasm

Great Schism

Rise of Islam and Turkish expansion

Rise of the Moscow Patriarchate

Part III. Modernity and upheavals. Byzantine rite Catholics

Peter the Great's reorientation of Russian Orthodoxy

Engaging the West through creeds

Popular piety and popular practices

Orthodoxy under Ottoman rule

The Greek revolution and Orthodox nationalism

New thinking and church reform

Part IV. Revolutions and reevaluations. Russian revolution

Soviet propaganda

Church under Stalin

Orthodoxy and ecumenism

Women's ordination

Orthodox nationalism and fundamentalism.