Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans

Bryn Geffert

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Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans is the first sustained study of inter-Orthodox relations, the special role of the Anglican Church, and the problems of Orthodox nationalism in the modern age. Despite many challenges, the interwar years were a time of intense creativity in the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian émigrés, freed from enforced isolation in the wake of the Russian Revolution, found themselves in close contact with figures from other Orthodox churches and from the Roman Catholic Church and all varieties of Protestant confessions. For many reasons, Russian exiles found themselves drawn to the Anglican Church in particular. The interwar years thus witnessed a concentrated effort to bridge the gap between Orthodox and Anglican. Geffert’s book is a detailed history of that effort. It is the story of efforts toward rapprochement by two churches and their ultimate failure to achieve formal unity. The same political, diplomatic, historical, personal, and religious forces that first inspired contact were the ones that ultimately undermined the effort. Bryn Geffert recounts the history of an important chapter in the history of Christian ecumenism, one that is relevant to contemporary efforts to achieve meaningful interfaith dialogue.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Protestantism
• Catholic Church
• Christian Church
• General officer
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Orthodox
• History of Christianity
• Eastern Orthodox Church
• Christianity
• Anglican Communion
• General
• History

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268080594
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Eastern Orthodox andAnglicans

Eastern Orthodox andAnglicans

Diplomacy, Theology, and the Politics of Interwar Ecumenism

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University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright © 2010 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Geffert, Bryn, 1967– Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans : diplomacy, theology, and the politics of interwar ecumenism / Bryn Geffert. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-268-02975-3 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-268-02975-X (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Anglican Communion—Relations— Orthodox Eastern Church. 2. Orthodox Eastern Church—Relations—Anglican Communion. I. Title. bx5004.3.g44 2010 280'.04209410904— dc22 2009035057

This book is printed on recycled paper.

Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1 1. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Introduction Nineteenth-Century Precedents Outbreak of Ecumenism The Roman Catholic Church False Starts Anglican Orders and Orthodox Politics Jubilee, 1925 The Russian Student Christian Movement The Prayer Book Crisis, 1927– 1928 Lausanne, 1927 The Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius Intercommunion and Sofiology Lambeth, 1930 Bucharest, 1935– 1936 Edinburgh, 1937 Internal Divisions Conclusion

Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments

A project such as this owes much to many. I am grateful to Theofanis Stavrou, who encouraged this endeavor and treated me like a member of an extended family during my years at the University of Minnesota. J. Kim Munholland, Gary Jahn, and Josef Altholz were generous with their time and advice. Sara Leake at St. Olaf College repeatedly found the unfindable and secured the unobtainable. Kasia Gonnerman tracked down many items, read portions of the manuscript, and, like a dear friend, provided encouragement and support despite her profound dis- interest in the topic. Bonnie Coles at the Library of Congress was sim- ply magnificent. I also received assistance from Robinson Murray of Harvard’s Widener Library, Tatjana Lorkovic of Yale’s Slavic and East European Collections, Hjordis Halvorson and Caroline Sietmann of the Newberry Library, Harry Leich of the Library of Congress’s Euro- pean Division, Angela Canon of the University of Illinois’s Slavic Ref- erence Service, Steven Tomlinson of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, Carol Forbes and Fiona Aitken of the National Library of Scotland, the staff of Princeton University’s special collections, and Linda Raymond of the British Library. Bruce Marshall read parts of the manuscript and taught me much about Bulgakov. Fr. Stephen Platt of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius granted me unfettered access to the Fellow- ship’s files and served afternoon tea as I waded through papers. Alexis Klimoff and Brandon Gallaher-Holloway shared parts of their own re- search with me. The three anonymous readers of the manuscript offered provocative and helpful suggestions. My editor, Sheila Berg, improved the final product in many ways large and small. I am grateful to Cam-

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Acknowledgments

bridge University Press and to Taylor and Francis, which allowed me to adapt material that previously appeared as Bryn Geffert, “Anglican Or- ders and Orthodox Politics: John Douglas, Patriarch Meletios, and Metropolitan Antonii on Anglican Orders and Reunion,”Journal of Ec- clesiastical History57, no. 2 (2006): 270–300; and “Sergii Bulgakov, the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, Intercommunion, and Sofiol- ogy,”Revolutionary Russia17, no. 1 (June 2004): 105–41. I owe more than I can express to Robert Nichols for his advice and encouragement over many years and for conversations about Florovskii, Orthodoxy, and this “age of the absurd” in all its wonder. St. Olaf College provided a sabbat- ical that permitted much of this research. The University of Minnesota was generous with fellowships and stipends that enabled two trips to England. Some of this money came from the Basil Laourdas Fellow- ship Fund, which has supported numerous studies of the Orthodox world. It seems fitting that Laourdas, who died with a copy of Alexan- der Schmemann’sUltimate Questionson his bedside table, would have made possible this small study of efforts to find agreement on just such questions.

Note on Transliteration

With the exception of names in quotations, this work follows the Library of Congress system for transliterating Russian names. Hence Russian names such as V. V. Zenkovskii and Petr Kovalevskii are rendered with a doubleirather than ay(“Zenkovsky” or “Kovalevsky”). Russian Chris- tian names are employed throughout instead of Western variants. Thus this work refers to Metropolitan Antonii rather than “Anthony”; Alek- sandr and Petr rather than “Alexander” and “Peter”; Sergei Bulgakov rather than the French “Sergius”; and Metropolitan Evlogii rather than “Eulogius.” However, as Nicolas (Nikolai) Zernov and Georges (Georgii) Florovskii preferred to be called by the English (in Zernov’s case) and French (in Florovskii’s case) versions of their Christian names and as these were the names by which most of their Anglican friends knew them, I refer to both by their “ecumenical” noms de plume. English writers often took great liberty with Greek names. J. J. Overbeck quotes at length from N. M. “Damala,” an incorrect use of the genitive rather than the nominative (Damalas). Likewise, Anglican acquaintances of Hamilcar Alivizatos often rendered his name with ans(“Alivisatos”), an erroneous transliteration of the Greek zeta. This work employs the Library of Congress transliteration for all Greek names.

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