510 Scrinium X (2014). Syrians and the Others
scribed in Byzantine texts; C) the vesting prayers according to the
Textus Receptus of the Greek rite.
The edition is provided with 79 black‐and‐white illustrations,
22 colour plates, a bibliography, and an index.
T. Sénina (mon. Kassia)
Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
TWO BOOKS ON FR ANTONII (ANTHONY)
BULATOVICH (1870–1919)
AND THE IMIASLAVIE
(ONOMATODOXY, NAME‐GLORIFYING)
Tom DYKSTRA, Hallowed Be Thy Name: The Name‐
Glorifying Dispute in the Russian Orthodox Church
and on Mt. Athos, 1912–1914, St Paul, MN: OCABS
Press, 2013, p. 244. ISBN 1‐60191‐030‐4
This book, which uses an icon of Fr Antonii (Bulatovich) on the front
cover, is a reworking of the author’s 1988 PhD thesis defended at the
St. Vladimir Theological Seminary under the supervision of the late
Fr John Meyendorff (1926–1992). At the time, it was certainly a pio‐
neering work, especially for its English‐speaking audience. The abun‐
dant flow of publications in Russian would start only ca 1994. A most
systematic but biased account of the struggle on Mt. Athos was then
available through a small monograph by Constantine Papoulidis in
Greek (1977). There was, moreover, a largely historical article by a
famous Jesuit specialist in Russian theology Bernhard Schultze (1902–
1990) (published in 1951 in German). And, finally, Antoine Nivière, a
French specialist in the topic, had started to work simultaneously
with Tom Dykstra and, at first, without them knowing each other.
However, unlike Antoine Nivière, Tom Dykstra was not especially
interested in the impact of the Imiaslavie on the so‐called “Russian
religious philosophy” (Florensky, S. Bulgakov, Losev) and the Rus‐
sian culture of the “Silver Century” as a whole. His main goal was to
provide a reliable account of events within the frame of the history of
the Church. Thus, his work did not come into fashion when it was
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