Crisis and reform
Subtitle: the Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the genesis of the Union of Brest
By: by Borys A. Gudziak.
Series: Harvard series in Ukrainian studies
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Byzantine rite, Ruthenian -- History -- 16th century.; Catholic Church -- Relations -- Orthodox Eastern Church.; Catholic Church -- Poland -- History -- 16th century.; Catholic Church. -- Metropolitanate of Kiev.; Constantinople (Ecumenical patriarchate) -- History.; Orthodox Eastern Church -- Relations -- Catholic Church.; Union of Brest -- (1596); Metropolitanates -- Ukraine -- Kiev; Ukraine -- Church history.
Description: Crisis and Reform explains and reevaluates one of the most controversial events in Slavic church history, the Union of Brest (1596), through which the majority of the Ruthenian hierarchy recognized the supremacy of the pope in Rome while retaining its Slavonic-Byzantine liturgical tradition and ethos. Dr.

Gudziak analyzes the movement of spiritual and cultural reform in the Kyivan Metropolitanate in light of its traditional relationship with the Great Church in Constantinople and in the face of the vibrant challenges presented by the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform movements flourishing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the broader European context.

Crisis and Reform will be of interest to specialists in East European cultural and religious history and to all interested in understanding the religious landscape of Eastern Europe today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-469) and index.