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The Religious World Displayed, Or, a View of Judaism, Paganism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (1)
The Religious World Displayed Or a View of Judaism Paganism Christianity and Mohammedanism - 1 Author:Robert Adam Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: s.n. Subjects: Religions Deism Religion / General Religion / Comparative Religion Religion / Deism Religion / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THK RUSSIAN GREEK CHURCH. Rise, History, And Changes Introduced By Peter The Great. -- Of those independent Greek Churches which are governed by their own laws, and are in communion with the patriarch of Constantinople, but are not subject to his jurisdiction, there is none but the church established in Russia that is of any note in the Christian world ; the rest, i. e. the Georgians and Mingrelians, " are sunk in the most deplorable ignorance and barbarity that can possibly be imagined." ' The accounts which have been given of the introduction of Christianity into Russia, are so fabulous and ridiculous, that they are sufficiently refuted by their own absurdity. Some have pretended, that the country was converted by the apostle St Andrew. Another tradition, equally groundless, and still more absurd, reports, that St Anthony of Padua, converted them to the Christian faith ; and adds, that the saint swam over the Levant upon a great mill-stone, and then rode to Novogorod upon it! Another account says, that JVladimir was convinced of the truth of the Christian religion, by seeing the book of the New Testament thrown into a large fire, and from thence taken out unburnt and unhurt. What we learn with most appearance of probability is, that the Grand Dutchess Olga, or, as her name is pronounced, Olha, grandmother to Wladimir, was the first person of distinction converted to Christianity in Russia, about the year 955, and that she assumed the name of Helen...« less