Lexington Books
Pages: 334
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-7759-5 • Hardback • October 2018 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-1-4985-7760-1 • eBook • October 2018 • $134.50 • (£104.00)
Nicholas S. Racheotes is emeritus professor of history at Framingham State University.
Chapter 1: Early Life
Chapter 2: A Man of the Word
Chapter 3: Metropolitan of Moscow
Chapter 4: Individual Freedom and Royal Absolutism Byzantine Style
Chapter 5: Contra Schism and Heresy
Chapter 6: God save the Tsar
Nicholas S. Racheotes has written the most extensive study in English of the great nineteenth-century churchman, St. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow. Racheotes weaves Filaret’s everyday life together with his thoughts on Orthodox Christianity, the leading religious, political, and social issues of the day, and his actions in bringing Russian Orthodoxy into the modern world to give the reader a sense of Filaret’s importance both in his own day and in modern day Russia. Through extensive quotations from Filaret’s sermons, Racheotes gives the reader insight into Russian preaching in the nineteenth century, a field of Russian literature almost completely ignored in western scholarship.— Robert Nichols, St. Olaf College
Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov) was a towering figure in the nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox Church—a prolific writer and powerful authority, but oddly neglected in the historiography. This pioneering biography draws upon the immense corpus of published sources to provide the first, long-overdue account of St. Filaret's thought and his role in addressing a wide range of critical issues.— Gregory Freeze, Brandeis University
It may be a cliché to say so, but this book does indeed fill a significant gap in the historiography.
— Journal of Ecclesiastical History