title: The History of Russian Christianity Volume 1: From the Earliest Years Through Tsar Ivan IV
author:  Daniel H. Shubin 
description: From Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a 3-volume series. The events, people and politics that forged the earliest traditions of Russian Christianity are presented objectively and intensively, describing the rise and dominance of the Russian Orthodox Church, the many dissenters and sectarian groups that evolved over the centuries (and their persecution), the presence of Catholicism and the influx of Protestantism and Judaism and other minority religions into Russia. The history covers the higher levels of ecclesiastical activity including the involvement of tsars and princes, as well as saints and serfs, and monks and mystics. This, the first volume, deals with the period from Apostle Andrew to the death of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, just prior to the election of the first Russian Patriarch, a period of almost 1600 years.
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  SGUMRÖ 
  Quaßreay 
  ST VLADIMIR'S SEMINARY LIBRARY 
  575 SCARSDALE ROAD 
  CRESTWOOD, TUCKAHOE, NY 10707 
  1964 
  VOLUME 8 
  NUMBER 2 
  St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary 
  Crestwood, New York 
  8 
  .2 
  9 
  
  &t. Vladimir's ^eminarg (Eluamtlg 
  Published by 
  THE FACULTY OF ST. VLADIMIR'S ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
  EDITORIAL BOARD 
  NICHOLAS ARSENIEV 
  REV. ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN 
  REV. WILLIAM SGHNEIRLA 
  REV. J O H N MEYENDORFF, Eaitm 
  Vol. 8 
  1964 
  No. 2 
  CONTENTS 
  Articles 
  NICHOLAS ARSENIEV 
  64 
  by VESELIN K E S I C H 
  PROBLEMS OF ORTHODOXY 
  IN AMERICA 
  67 
  by ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN 
  VALIDITY AND AUTHENTICITY: 
  THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 
  WESTERN AND ORTHODOX VIEWS ON ORDERS 
  86 
  by CHARLES-JAMES N. BAILEY 
  Notes and 
  Comments 
  THE STANDING CONFERENCE OF BISHOPS 
  93 
  by WILLIAM S. SCHNEIRLA 
  Book 
  Reviews 
  XOMIAKOV. AN INTRODUCTION T O NINETEENTH CENTURY 
  RUSSIAN SLAVOPHILISM by PETER K. CHRISTOFF (Ν. Arseniev) . . . 
  95 
  SOLITARIA by WAS SILI J ROSANOW (N. Arseniev) 
  97 
  T H E 
  VISI