Title: Crisis and reform
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Byzantine rite, Ruthenian, Catholic Church, Catholic Church. Metropolitanate of Kiev, Church history, Constantinople (Ecumenical patriarchate), History, Metropolitanates, Orthodox Eastern Church, Relations, Ruthenian Byzantine rite, Union of Brest, Union of Brest (1596), Ukraine, history, Catholic Church. Metropolitanate of Kyïv
Places: Kiev, Poland, Ukraine
Time periods: 16th century
LC classification: BX4711.64.K5 G83 1998, BX4711.64.K53 G83 1998