ΤIn November 1933, the police raided central bookstores in Athens and proceeded to confiscate the publication of an author's work that had been released a few days earlier. There had previously been a related complaint by the Holy Synod, which demanded the absolute ban of the book.
The true history of the Church by Kostas Apekas is the first attempt to write a critical history of the Greek Church, through a Marxist prism. On a political and social level, it reflects the anti-clerical climate of the interwar period, which to a large extent is expressed through an unprecedented, for the data of Greek society, popular anti-clericalism.
Picking up the thread from the great tradition of the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment, Apekas presents the exploitative character of the Church and the interests it represents, analyzing its role in the Byzantine and especially in the Ottoman state. He describes its political and ideological challenge by the liberal radical enlighteners during the Greek Revolution and highlights its new role, immediately after the creation of the new Greek state, as an ideological mechanism of the new ruling bourgeoisie, as it began to conservatise and compromise with the pre-revolutionary dominant elements.
The Lux Orbis Series brings to light yet another extremely rare edition, which unites the precursors of the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment with unknown aspects and events of the 20th century.
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