Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. The Church on the Eve of the Turkish Conquest: 1. The background; 2. The structure of the church; 3. Church and state; 4. The church and the churches; 5. The church and the philosophers; 6. The theology of mysticism; 7. The end of the empire; Part II. The Church Under the Ottoman Sultans: 8. The new pattern; 9. The church and the infidel state; 10. The church and education; 11. The church and the churches: constantinople and Rome; 12. The church and the churches: the Lutheran approach; 13. The church and the churches: the Calvinist patriarch; 14. The church and the churches: the Anglican experiment; 15. Constantinople and Moscow; 16. The definition of doctrine; 17. The phanariots; 18. The church and the Greek people; 19. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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This is Sir Steven Runciman's established and widely admired classic account of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.