Tolstoy

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Caryl Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Moral Philosophers

This chapter surveys the paradoxes of Tolstoy’s religious worldview in five sections. The first section surveys the fiction: moments of grace in Tolstoy’s creative, aesthetically created worlds. The second is biographical, his so-called crisis years (1877–1885) and conversion to radical Christian anarchism, with its pivotal text What Then Must We Do? (1883–1886). The third is doctrinal: Tolstoy’s image of Jesus, whose assault on the Temple and ethically oriented parables are central to Tolstoy’s own rewriting and ‘harmonization’ of the Gospels. This discussion ends with the 1901 edict formally separating Tolstoy from the Russian Orthodox Church. The fourth section takes up Tolstoy’s 1886 treatise On Life (and its problematic vision of the afterlife). The conclusion briefly places Tolstoy among his fellow moral philosophers, especially Vladimir Soloviev, Vasily Zenkovsky, and Nicolas Berdyaev.

«I Want to Die, to Depart from This Life, Being in Fellowship with the Lord» by Letters of Bishop Benjamin (Milov). Part III

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-221
Author(s):  
Константин Ефимович Скурат
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Will ◽  
Will Of God

Статья представляет собой третью часть публикации, раскрывающей духовный облик исповедника Русской Православной Церкви епископа Вениамина (Милова). В неё вошло окончание второй главы «Письма из ссылки» и заключение автора публикации. Автор тематически подбирает фрагменты из писем владыки: о сокрушении сердца, о смирении, о терпении и стоянии в молитве, о предании себя волей Божией, то есть о непрестанной подготовке к Небесной Жизни. В итоге автору удается показать, что епископ Вениамин был истинным духовным подвижником, горящим любовью к Богу, и умелым духовником, направляющим своих чад на путь Божий. The article constitutes the third part of the publication, revealing the spiritual appearance of the Confessor of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Benjamin (Milov). It included the end of the second Chapter «Letters from Exile» and the conclusion of the author of the publication. Archpriest K. Skurat thematically selects fragments from Vladyka’s letters: about the breaking of the heart, about humility, about patience and standing in prayer, about surrendering oneself to the will of God, that is, about incessant preparation for Heavenly Life. As a result, the author manages to show that Bishop Benjamin was a true spiritual ascetic, burning with love for God, and a skillful Confessor, directing his children to the path of God.

God-Seeking, God-Building, and the New Religious Consciousness

2020 ◽  
pp. 221-239
Author(s):  
Erich Lippman
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Religion And Modernity ◽  
Russian Intelligentsia ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Revolutionary Period

While the Russian Orthodox Church provided a distinct and oppositional pole to Lenin’s atheistic materialism, the tension between religion and modernity played itself out more ambiguously among Russian intelligentsia circles. God-seekers, often adherents of what was at the time called the ‘New Religious Consciousness’ and what would later be reconstituted as the ‘Russian Religious Renaissance’, moved from secular vantage points to dialogue with, and (for some) acceptance of, a religious worldview. Meanwhile, a variety of Bolshevik luminaries, including Alexander Bogdanov, Anatolii Lunacharskii, and V. A. Rudnev (aka Bazarov), collected at Maksim Gor’kii’s villa on Capri and came to represent a more decidedly atheistic perspective. It employed heavy religious symbolism and reinterpretation and became known as God-building. These two perspectives emerged as competing interpretations of the interplay between religion and modernity before the revolution. Only later, during the post-revolutionary period, were they reified as antithetical positions—first by émigré philosophers, then by Cold War theorists. This trajectory followed Nikolai Berdiaev’s assertion that Russian revolutionary thought contained deeply religious roots. However, God-building and God-seeking can also be imagined as creative attempts to combine religion and modernity, which inhabit a spectrum between the poles of established religion and atheistic materialism.

scholarly journals The continuity of the byzantine church tradition in Russian book culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Vadim L. Afanasevsky
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
Direct Perception ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Third ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Church Tradition

The article attempts to outline the trend of Russian scribes to perceive the Byzantine Church tradition. The author also builds a view that the movement goes from anticipating the inheritance of the traditions of the Christian Byzantine Church and statehood to the process of direct perception of the Byzantine Church state power and authority by the Russian Church. The Byzantine theologians interpreted the split of Christianity as the appearance, along with the true Orthodox Church of the Western Church, in which a person was the individual desacralization. After the fall of Byzantium, it was the destined Russian Orthodox Church that acted as the guardian of the canonical and dogmatic tradition of true Orthodoxy. And, first of all, this was expressed in the continuity of the tradition integrity of the spiritual and secular authorities. The author considers the way of expressing these processes in the theological and political treatises of the aborning Russian book tradition, which gave rise to the formation of a specific Russian ideocratic project. The ideology of Moscow as the Third Rome, launched by Russian scribes, became possible due to the fact that Orthodox Russia has assumed the most important sacred mission.

scholarly journals “Common Slavic Booklore: Unity and Diversity” (To the 1000th Anniversary of Repose of Prince Vladimir)

2015 ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
T. A. Isatchenko
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State Library

The Russian State Library hosted the Third International Youth Conference “Common Slavic Booklore: Unity and Diversity”, dedicated to the Day of Orthodox Book and to the 1000th anniversary of repose of Prince Vladimir, which was attended by Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk. On March 12, at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior there was held a meeting of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia with young participants of the conference, students of military boarding schools of Moscow and many fans of the book. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church corresponded to the congregation the Pastoral discourse, stressing that the Day of Orthodox Book, being governmentally celebrated each year, has acquired a deep historical understanding: “Books... convey to us information from the past, they are the carriers of some kind of heredity. ... In the best books this code is depicted, and one of such books is „Apostle“”. The conference was the first international youth event of the jubilee year, which, in accordance with the Order of the President of the Russian Federation “On the Events Dedicated to the Memory of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Vladimir - Christianizer of Russia”, will be held under the sign of the Holy Prince Vladimir.

Christian unity: the search for ways to achieve

2001 ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Yu. Ye. Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Press ◽  
Christian Unity ◽  
Future Policy

Last year, the anniversary of all Christianity, witnessed a number of significant events caused by a new interest in understanding the problem of the unity of the Christian Church on the turn of the millennium. Due to the confidentiality of Ukraine, some of these events have or will have an immediate impact on Christianity in Ukraine and on the whole Ukrainian society as a whole. Undoubtedly, the main event, or more enlightened in the press, is a new impetus to the unification of the UOC-KP and the UAOC. But we would like to focus on two documents relating to the problem of Christian unity, the emergence of which was almost unnoticed by the wider public. But at the same time, these documents are too important as they outline the future policy of other Christian denominations by two influential Ukrainian christian churches - the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. These are the "Basic Principles of the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the" I ", adopted by the Anniversary Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Concept of the Ecumenical Position of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, adopted by the Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC. It is clear that the theme of the second document is wider, but at the same time, ecumenism, unification is impossible without solving the problem of relations with others, which makes it possible to compare the approaches laid down in the mentioned documents to the building of relations with other Christian confessions.

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