Status Updates From The Orthodox Church: An Int...

"But if Christians are People of the Book, the Bible is the Book of the People; it must not be regarded as something set up 'over' the Church, but [...] understood 'within'."

"It is from the Church that the Bible ultimately derives its authority, for it was the Church which originally decided which books form a part of Holy Scripture; and it is the Church alone which can interpret Holy Scripture with authority."

"...icons were part of the transfigured cosmos." (18)

This chapter is all about Orthodoxy in Russia, primarily during the Synodical Period (1700-1917).
It is interesting to think of Moscow as the "Third Rome", since Rome is believed by the Orthodox to have fallen to barbarians and then heresy, with the second Rome, Constantinople, falling to the Turks after that.
The schism between the Possesor and Non-Possesor theological views of monasticism was interesting as well.

This chapter focuses on Orthodoxy in Russia, primarily during the Synodical Period (1700-1917), instituted by Peter the Great. It emphasizes how the Church not only endured under the less than ideal circumstances without a Patriarchate, but thrived.
Before that, there was a schism and theological controversy between possessor and non-possessor views of monasticism, which refers to the possession of land by monks.