Encounters with Orthodoxy: How Protestant Churches Can Reform Themselves Again

by John P. Burgess

When author and theologian John P. Burgess first travelled to Russia, he was hoping to expand his theological horizons and explore the rebirth of the Orthodox Church since the fall of Communism. But what he found changed some fundamental assumptions about his own tradition of North American Protestantism. In this book, Burgess asks how an encounter with Orthodoxy can help Protestants better see both strengths and weaknesses of their own tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664235905
• ISBN13: 9780664235901
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"