Misjologia prawosławna w ujęciu historycznym – główne trendy
Orthodox Missiology in a Historical Perspective – Main Trends

Summary/Abstract: The missionary activity of the Orthodox Church – despite available sources – remains unknown in the West. Some scholars even state that the Byzantine Church was not interested in missions at all. There are also opinions that the growth of Orthodoxy in the Byzantine Empire, and then in the Moscow’s one, resulted in the very low interest in missionary activity. Despite this, the achievements in the missionary activity of Orthodoxy are considerable. The Orthodox missions were far ahead of the Catholic missions in Asia, developing their own methods and making an affluent history. For these reasons, the article discusses the issue of Orthodox missiology in a historical context. It indicates that in the case of Orthodoxy, organized missionary activity was associated with the Church’s strong dependence on the state, and a systematic mission of the Russian Orthodox Church, subordinated to state policy, developed after the conquest of Kazan by Ivan IV the Terrible in 1552.

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