Background
Davis, Nathaniel was born on April 12, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Harvey Nathaniel and Alice Marion (Rohde) Davis.
( Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Sovie...)
Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, interviews, and first-hand personal experiences, Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on the brink of institutional extinction twice in the past sixty-five years. In 1939, only a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly. Ironically, Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church -- and parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. However, after Stalin's death, Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals that the erosion of church strength between 1948 and 1988 was greater than previously known and it was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity. More recently, the collapse of communism has created a mixture of dizzying opportunity and daunting trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. The newly revised and updated edition addresses the tumultuous events of recent years, including schisms in Ukraine, Estonia, and Moldova, and confrontations between church traditionalists, conservatives and reformers. The author also covers battles against Greek-Catholics, Roman Catholics, Protestant evangelists, and pagans in the south and east, the canonization of the last Czar, the church's financial crisis, and hard data on the slowing Russian orthodox recovery and growth. Institutional rebuilding and moral leadership now beckon between promise and possibility.
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Davis, Nathaniel was born on April 12, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Harvey Nathaniel and Alice Marion (Rohde) Davis.
Graduate, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1942. AB, Brown University, 1944. Doctor of Laws, Brown University, 1970.
Master of Arts, Fletcher School Law and Diplomacy, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Fletcher School Law and Diplomacy, 1960. Postgraduate, Columbia.
Postgraduate, Cornell University. Postgraduate, Middlebury College, 1953—1954. Postgraduate, University Central de Venezuela, 1961—1962.
Postgraduate, Norwich University, 1989.
Assistant history Tufts College, 1947. Joined United States Foreign Service, 1947. 3d secretary Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1947-1949.
Vice consul Florence, Italy, 1949-1952. 2d secretary Rome, 1952-1953, Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1954-1956. Soviet desk officer State Department, 1956-1960.
1st secretary Caracas, Venezuela, 1960-1962. Acting Peace Corps director, Chile, 1962. Special assistant to director Peace Corps, 1962-1963, department associate director, 1963-1965.
United States minister to Bulgaria, 1965-1966. Senior staff National Security Council (White House), 1966-1968. United States ambassador Guatemala, 1968-1971, Chile, 1971-1973.
Director general Foreign Service, 1973-1975, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, 1975. United States ambassador Switzerland, 1975-1977. State Dept advisor and Chester Nimitz professor Naval War College, 1977-1983.
Alexander and Adelaide Hixon professor humanities Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, 1983—2002, faculty executive committee, 1986-1989, acting dean of faculty, 1990, emeritus professor, since 2002. Lecturer in field; Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946.
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Member central committee California Democratic Party, 1987—1990, 1991—2006, member executive board, 1993—2006, member business and professional caucus, 1992—2006. Member Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee, 1988—1990, 1992—2006, regional vice chairman, 1994—1996. Delegate Democratic National Convention, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000.
Delegate Southern California conference United Church of Christ, 1986—1987. Member of American Association of University Professors (president Claremont College chapter 1992-1996, 1998), American Academy Diplomacy, Council on Foreign Relations, American Foreign Service Association (board directors, vice chairman 1964), Cosmos Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Elizabeth Kirkbride Creese, November 24, 1956. Children: Margaret Morton Davis Mainardi, James Creese, Thomas Rohde, Helen Miller Davis Presley.