Anglican orders and orthodox politics
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| Creator | Geffert, Bryn, 1967- (Amherst College) |
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| Title | Anglican orders and orthodox politics |
| Abstract | This essay examines the political and religious impetus behind Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis’s recognition of Anglican orders in 1922. The furor surrounding recognition, the events that led up to it and the fall-out that followed shed light on the many difficulties faced by religious leaders in the post-war Orthodox world, difficulties that led to fierce jockeying among Orthodox clerics as they tried to establish themselves in relation to their coreligionists and to the larger Christian world. The controversy also offers insight into the problems inherent when a "comprehensive" Church such as the Church of England enters into discussions with a more uniformly dogmatic confession such as Orthodoxy. |
| Journal Title | Journal of Ecclesiastical History |
| Publication Date | April 1, 2006 |
| Identifier (DOI) | 10.1017/S0022046905006251 |
| Citation | Geffert, Bryn. "Anglican orders and orthodox politics." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57.2 (2006):270-300. |
| Languages | English |
| Genre | Article |
| Subject | Meletios IV, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1871-1935 |
| Subject | Orthodox Eastern Church |
| Subject | Apostolic succession |
| Subject | Anglican orders |
| Subject | Church of England |
| Part of | The Amherst College Octagon |
| Repository | The Amherst College Octagon |
| Access and Use | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (CC BY NC ND 4.0) |