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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  THE FACULTY OF ST. VLADIMIR'S ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
  EDITORIAL BOARD 
  NICHOLAS ARSENIEV 
  REV. ALEXANDER SGHMEMANN 
  REV. WILLIAM SCHNEIRLA 
  REV. J O H N MEYENDORFF, Editor 
  Vol. 7 
  1963 
  No. 3 
  CONTENTS 
  Articles 
  TRADITION 
  AND TRADITIONS 
  102 
  by METROPOLITAN 
  ATHENAGORAS 
  THE YEAR 1917 IN THE HISTORY OF T H E RUSSIAN CHURCH . . 
  115 
  by GEORGE M. BENIG S E N 
  THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 
  133 
  by GEORGE P. FEDOTOV 
  Notes 
  and 
  Comments 
  A REPORT ON THE F O U R T H WORLD CONFERENCE 
  ON FAITH AND ORDER 
  150 
  by VLADIMIR 
  BERZONSKY 
  MONTREAL 
  1963 
  153 
  by J O H N MEYENDORFF 
  Book 
  Reviews 
  Jesus, by a M O N K OF THE EASTERN C H U R C H (P. Haskell) 
  156 
  The Episcopate and the 