This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...of the time they are utterly meaningless. The absence of liberty has killed the eloquence of the pulpit in Russia. We may make still another observation which will show how little Christianity has entered into the Russian soul. For the nine centuries during which they have been Christians, the Russians have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...of the time they are utterly meaningless. The absence of liberty has killed the eloquence of the pulpit in Russia. We may make still another observation which will show how little Christianity has entered into the Russian soul. For the nine centuries during which they have been Christians, the Russians have not introduced one atom of life into orthodoxy. Look at France and Catholicism. During the Middle Ages, and in modern times, France has repeatedly been a leader of Catholic thought. The University of Paris has, at different times, possessed the most remarkable theologians of Western Christianity. There has been nothing like this in Russia. There, they have accepted the Byzantine ritual without change. The Russians have confined their pride to interpreting the Greek texts with the most complete and servile literalness. The Russian Church has not, in its nine centuries of existence, given to the world either a great theologian, or a great doctor of the faith, or a saint who is at all remarkable or out of the ordinary, or a celebrated missionary, or even a great preacher. The only new element which the genius of the Russian people has introduced into the mummified body of the Orthodox Church is music. There, they have been creative, and wonderfully creative. The celebrated musician, Berlioz after hearing Mass sung by the choir of the cathedral in St. Petersburg, cried out, "I do not know how they sing in Paradise, but it seems to me that it cannot be very much better than this." The music of the Russian Church, which developed especially at the close of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, forms an entirely original school; it derives inspiration from no other, and its grandeur is at times as wonderful as its originality. The...
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