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Title: Excellent for Christian Investigators not of Orthodox Heritage
Review: This title provides a captivating look at the Orthodox Church, past, present, and future. While not written as such, the first few chapters indeed present themselves quite excitingly. One can tell that the early and Byzantine church was a period of which the author is very proud.However, when relating the history of the church in the early 20th century, the author tends to become a bit confusing, which is somewhat understandable considering the times in which the book was written.Most of the text is still relevant, but as the Iron Curtain fell, the position of the church in former Soviet republics changed. For historians of Eastern Europe during the Cold War Era, this presents a captivating viewpoint of a theologian struggling to advocate for a faith tradition that is long, proud, and storied, but for general readers this section may indeed be useless, because much of that information is now anachronistic.
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