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 Polityka władz państwowych wobec wyboru i działalności metropolity Makarego, zwierzchnika Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego

2015 ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Stefan Dudra
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church ◽  
Selection Of

Government policy towards the election and activity of Metropolitan Macarius (Oksijuk) In post-war Poland, the state authorities aimed at taking control of the religious life of the individual Churches and religious organizations. Surveillance efforts were made to maintain, among others, by appropriate selection of the superior of the Church and diocesan bishops. The election of Macarius (Oksijuk), Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church for the position of Metropolitan in July 1951 years should be understood in this context. The hierarch was also to give a guarantee of loyalty, implement his policy in line with the vision of communist authorities and ensure close cooperation with the Patriarchate of Moscow. Unrealized demands of the state authorities (emerging Russification trends, the lack of wider support in missionary activity among the Greek Catholics) contributed to undertake a process of dismissing Macarius from managing the Orthodox Church. Polityka władz państwowych wobec wyboru i działalności metropolity Makarego, zwierzchnika Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła PrawosławnegoPowojenna polityka państwa wobec Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego zmierzała do ograniczenia jego roli tylko do zadań religijnych, jednocześnie przy objęciu pozostałej działalności całkowitą kontrolą. Nadzór starano się utrzymywać m.in. poprzez odpowiedni dobór zwierzchnika Kościoła. Jednym z elementów polityki był wybór na stanowisko metropolity w 1951 roku Makarego (Oksijuka), arcybiskupa Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego. Po odsunięciu w 1948 roku od zarządzania Kościołem metropolity Dionizego władze wyznaniowe dążyły do obsadzenia tronu metropolitalnego przez hierarchę, który miałby realizować politykę kościelną zgodną z linią polityczną władz. Pomimo zrealizowania założonych celów metropolita Makary okazał się hierarchą, który nie spełnił oczekiwań władz (m.in. w zakresie polityki wobec grekokatolików), co wpłynęło na podjęcie decyzji o usunięciu go z zajmowanego stanowiska.

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.

scholarly journals THE WAY TO THE AUTOCEPHALY OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN 1918 (THROUGH THE PRIZE OF DOCUMENTS OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE ALL-UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX COUNCIL)

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
A. Sliusarenko ◽  
T. Pshenychnyi
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

The events that are taking place today in the church field of the Ukrainian State testify to the importance of the national church in building the national security of the country. The union of the church with the state has been formed for centuries, and to consider the absence of this tandem today would be wrong. However, such an alliance can be dangerous for the state if the church provokes separatism, ignites national conflict, undermines the national security of the state. Evidence of this is the aggressive policy of the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church towards Ukraine throughout history, which has turned the church into an instrument of political games. Thus, by annexing the Metropolitan of Kiev in 1686 and establishing a protectorate over the Ukrainian church space, the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church did everything to destroy the Ukrainian church tradition. History of Ukraine of the twentieth century testifies to the repeated attempts of Ukrainians to get out of the grip of the Russian Orthodox Church and build their own independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church. A striking example of this is the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church Council of 1918, which, in the context of national competitions of the Ukrainian people for their own state, brought to the agenda of the revolutionary events the question of independence of the Ukrainian Church. At the second session of the Council, the idea of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for the first time in many years consolidated a small part of the Ukrainian church and political elite around it. This article is devoted to analyzing the documents of this council session. The author tries to present the main stages of the competition for the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the difficulties that have arisen.

«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.

scholarly journals Rosyjska Cerkiew Prawosławna po śmierci patriarchy Tichona (Biełławina)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Communist State ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Canonical Order ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Community Church

The crisis in the Russian Orthodox Church, connected with the Patriarch Tikhon’s death, initiated the deep divisions between hierarchs. A precedent in the canonical order of the Orthodox Church authorities and nomination of metropolitan of Krutitsy Peter (Polansky) on the Guardian of the Patriarchal Throne were not able to maintain the monolith community. Church was destructed by internal divisions, personal ambitions, manifested especially after the arrest of the patriarchal locum tenes, and persecuted by the communist state authorities. Community was ultimately divided by the taking of the patriarchal throne by the metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod Sergius (Stragorodsky). Sergius position, de facto deputy of the deputy of the Guardian of the Patriarchal Throne, complicated canonical conflict with the archbishop of Yekaterinburg Grigory (Yatskovskiy) and personal controversies arising between him and the metropolitan of Jaroslaw Agafangel (Preobrazhensky). Internal schizm was finally sealed by the announcement of The declaration of the acting locum tenens of the Moscow patriarchal throne the metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod Sergius citizen Stragorodsky and the list of the temporary so-called “patriarchal Holy Synod” organized by him about attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to state authority.

INTERACTION OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND FOREIGN RUSSIAN CHURCH EMIGRATION WITH THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT IN 1940–60-s.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
V.A. LIVTSOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the article is to consider the relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and the breakaway Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Western European Exarchate of Constantinople Patriarchate for parishes of the Russian tradition with the World Council of Churches. These relations are analyzed from the point of view of the participants' political interests and interference of party and state power in the USSR into these processes.

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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