At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia. (Book Reviews and Notes). From: Church History | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: Shevzov, Vera | COPYRIGHT 2001 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia. By Georg B. Michels. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xii + 354 pp. $60.00 cloth.

In the mid-seventeenth century, some 140 years after Luther's protest against indulgences had led to major divisions in Western Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Russia saw the growing fissures of what eventually became its own religious schism. These fissures were generated ostensibly by the int...