and despite his not having earned an academic degree in theology (he was later awarded several honorary degrees) he would spend the rest of his life teaching at theological institutions. In 1932 Florovsky was ordained priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church. During the 1930s he undertook extensive research in European libraries and published in Russian valuable patristic studies, such as his book on 'Eastern fathers of the fourth century' (1931) and 'The Byzantine fathers fifth to eighth centuries' (1933). These were followed by his magnum opus, Ways of Russian Theology (1937). In this work he questioned the Western-European Christian influences of scholasticism, pietism, and idealism on Orthodox, and especially Russian, Christian theology, and called for its reformulation in the light of patristic writings. The work was received with enthusiasm or condemnation—there was no neutral attitude to it among Russian émigrés. One of his most prominent critics was Nikolai Berdyaev. Florovsky remained professor of patristics at the Institute until 1939, and from 1939 to 1948 taught there as professor of dogmatics. In 1949 Florovsky moved to the United States of America, to take a position as Dean of Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York City. There his development of the curriculum led to the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York granting the Seminary an Absolute Charter in 1953. In 1955 Florovsky was asked by his synod overseers to "lay down the deanship." He became a professor of divinity at Harvard University, and ended his academic years as a professor at Princeton University. He died on 11 August 1979 in Princeton. Works Eastern Fathers of the Fourth Century (1931. Paris) The Ways of Russian Theology (online) The Catholicity of the Church online The Lost Scriptural Mind online On Church and Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View online St. John Chrysostom. The Prophet of Charity online The Ascetic Ideal and the New Testament. Reflections on the Critique of the Theology of the Reformation online The Limits of the Church, Church Quarterly Review, 1933 (online) Following the Holy Fathers (Excerpt of The Collected Works of Georges Florovsky Vol. IV, "Patristic Theology and the Ethos of the Orthodox Church," Part II, p. 15-22) online St Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers, 1961 online Revelation and Interpretation online Scripture and Tradition: an Orthodox View online The Work of the Holy Spirit in Revelation online Holy Icons online