Divine face of Byzantium. Velichko A.M.

The book “The Divine Face of Byzantium” is a collection of selected works of the famous Russian jurist and Byzantine Velichko A. M., which includes works on the history of the church and work on Byzantinism. In the first part, such centuries -old phenomena as papism, the split of the church that occurred in the XI century were subjected to detailed historical and legal analysis. , the iconoclastic movement, the specifics of the relationship between the political and church authorities in Russia on the eve of the abolition of the patriarchate, the reasons for the creation of Peter the Great of the Holy Synod. The second part reveals the idea of ​​monarchical power, as it was formulated in Byzantium, describes the legal and political forms in which it was realized, as well as the crisis of the “Symphony of the authorities” in the “late” Byzantium on the eve of its death. The book is designed for students of legal, historical faculties, spiritual educational institutions, as well as all those interested in issues of the theory and history of the church, law and state, theology of law.