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Orthodox Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Sharipova, Lludmyla

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Howard Louthan
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Graeme Murdock
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Abstract

The chapter considers the modalities of religious reform in the Eastern Orthodox Church in Poland-Lithuania from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries, which were directly inspired by the parallel process of religious change in Western and Central Europe. It addresses four major points: exogenous Protestant influences on the Eastern Church, facilitated by the high level of constitutionally-guaranteed confessional toleration in Poland-Lithuania; the position of the Orthodox Church vis-à-vis the Eastern patriarchs, the Polish-Lithuanian state, and the relationship between the Orthodox Church hierarchy and the laity; endogenous reforming tendencies at the grass-roots level and the response of the Orthodox episcopate to this challenge; and the significance of the realignment of the Metropolitanate of Kiev in tune with the realities on the ground, presented by the shifting confessional situation.

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Sharipova, L. (2015). Orthodox Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In H. Louthan, & G. Murdock (Eds.), A companion to the Reformation in Central Europe (223-253). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004301627_011

Online Publication Date Sep 17, 2015
Publication Date Sep 25, 2015
Deposit Date Oct 11, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Brill Academic Publishers
Pages 223-253
Series Title Brill's companions to the Christian tradition
Series Number 61
Edition 1st
Book Title A companion to the Reformation in Central Europe
Chapter Number 9
ISBN 9789004255272
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004301627_011
Keywords Reformation, laity, episcopate, Catholicism, Protestantism, Greek Orthodox Church
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2806537
Publisher URL https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004301627/B9789004301627-s011.xml

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