Abstrakt
The book traces how Orthodox theology in the 20th century come to the West, how was it linked to home churches which experienced ruptures that led to the disappearance of old ways of life, and to the discovery of new ways. It starts with mapping conflicting claims to how the legacy of Byzantium after the fall of Constantinople continues in the Slavic territories, in Ottoman Sultanate and its succeeding states, up to the present.
It offers a contextual and critical examination of the spiritual, the ecclesial, the cultural and the intellectual life of Orthodoxy outside the traditionally Orthodox lands. Here it concentrates on the impact of modern Orthodox missions, but also on migration, both voluntary and forced, in particular after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
It asks how the new surroundings helped in understanding and passing on the inheritance of faith and of theology that which the Orthodox carried with them, and ways of opening up the new possibilities of appropriation of that inheritance. The profiles of the new theological schools are accompanied by the personal stories of their proponents.