Professor Alexander Lopukhin

The Transoceanic West in Its Religious and Moral Aspect

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19th c. · Church History · English translation, 2026

29,146 words · 2.4 hr read· Moderate

Source edition: Заокеанский Запад в религиозно-нравственном отношении

Cover art: Green River Cliffs, Wyoming (1881) — Thomas Moran (American, 1837–1926) (National Gallery of Art (CC0), Public domain)

Contents

• • Introduction
  • Preface
• Public lectures, delivered during the Great Lent of 1888 in the "Society for the Propagation of Religious-Moral Enlightenment in the Spirit of the Orthodox Church" for the benefit of needy students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and pupils of the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary.
• First Reading
• 1. The importance and interest of studying the religious-moral life in America in view of the church-religious condition being experienced by our society
• The Church and the State in America. The Church and the School. The Church and Society.

  • The Church and the Press. The Public Significance of Preaching
  • The Church and the Press. The Public Significance of Preaching. (Cont.)
  • The Church and the Press. The Public Significance of Preaching. (Cont.) (2)
• 2. Public sensitivity to the interests of religious-moral life

  • Care for the Religious-moral Education of Children. Sunday Schools and Bible…
  • Care for the Religious-moral Education of Children. Sunday Schools and… (Cont.)
  • Care for the Religious-moral Education of Children. Sunday Schools… (Cont.) (2)
• Second Reading
• 3. The Doctrinal Essence of Protestantism and Its Ecclesiastical-Practical Failure. The Kingdom of Sects and Divisions

  • Protestantism in its Full Development. The Wandering of Religious Thought…
  • Protestantism in its Full Development. The Wandering of Religious… (Cont.)
  • Protestantism in its Full Development. The Wandering of Religious… (Cont.) (2)
• 4. The American People's Striving for Church-Religious Unification and the Significance of This Fact. Conclusion

  • The Protest of Religious Feeling Against Church Fragmentation (Revivals). –…
  • The Protest of Religious Feeling Against Church Fragmentation… (Cont.)
  • The Protest of Religious Feeling Against Church Fragmentation… (Cont.) (2)