Morality and Reality: The Life and Times of Andrei Sheptyts’kyi

Description

Andrei Sheptyts’kyi (1865–1944), metropolitan-archbishop of the Greek Catholic Church in Galicia, was a towering figure in twentieth-century Ukrainian life. This collection of twenty-one essays examines Metropolitan Sheptyts’kyi as church hierarch, theologian, ecumenist, national leader, and philanthropist.

The essays include:

• Wolfdieter Bihl: Sheptyts’kyi and the Austrian Government
• John-Paul Himka: Sheptyts’kyi and the Ukrainian National Movement before 1914
• Bohdan Budorowycz: Sheptyts’kyi and the Ukrainian National Movement after 1914
• Ryszard Torzecki: Sheptyts’kyi and Polish Society
• Bohdan R. Bociurkiw: Sheptyts’kyi and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church under Soviet Occupation
• Hansjakob Stehle: Sheptyts’kyi and the German Regime
• Shimon Redlich: Sheptyts’kyi and the Jews
• Petro B. T. Bilaniuk: Sheptyts’kyi’s Theological Thought
• Lubomyr Husar: Sheptyts’kyi and Ecumenism
• Victor J. Pospishil: Sheptyts’kyi and Liturgical Reform
• Brian R. Keleher: Sheptyts’kyi and Three Converts from the West
• Andrii Krawchuk: Sheptyts’kyi and the Ethics of Christian Social Action
• Ann Slusarczuk Sirka: Sheptyts’kyi in Education and Philanthropy
• Myroslava M. Mudrak: Sheptyts’kyi as Patron of the Arts
• Ivan Muzyczka: Sheptyts’kyi in the Russian Empire
• Bohdan Kazymyra: Sheptyts’kyi and Ukrainians in Canada
• Bohdan P. Procko: Sheptyts’kyi and Ukrainians in the United States
• Athanasius B. Pekar: Sheptyts’kyi and the Carpatho-Ruthenians in the United States
• Andrzej Zieba: Sheptyts’kyi in Polish Public Opinion
• Roman Waschuk: The Symbol of Sheptyts’kyi in Soviet Ideology
• Michael Hrynchyshyn: Western Historiography and Future Research

Acclaimed as a classic reference work, this substantial volume also includes a six-page chronology of Sheptyts’kyi’s life, three genealogical charts, two maps, and more than 50 photographs.

The introduction, “The Chuch between East and West: The Context of Sheptyts’kyi’s Thought,” was written by leading church historian Jaroslav Pelikan.