scholarly journals The Verses about Sofei in the Stishnoi Prolog from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome

Slovene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 377-393
Author(s):  
Maria B. Pliukhanova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Part ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Lives Of Saints ◽  
Divine Wisdom ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Cultural Status ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Similar Text

This article is a publication, with commentary, of the text about Divine Wisdom from the Stishnoi Prolog, a Synaxarium with verses. It was conserved in the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (Slavo 5), now in the Vatican Library; the manuscript dates from the beginning of the 16th century, and it originates from Novgorod or Pskov. This codex is well known among Slavists, who have expressed various contradictory judgments about its content. A series of texts—verses and lives of saints—have no analogues in other manuscripts. The source also contains some strange errors, even absurdities. On fol. 185 prayer verses are entered without a title; in other words, they have no relation to any specific event of the Church calendar. The prayer consists mainly of quotations. The first part, which is the beginning of the Great Doxology, does not glorify the Trinity but rather it glorifies Sophia, using the Novgorod masculine form Sofei. The final part of the prayer quotes Ps 146:5 on the greatness of the Lord. The middle part is a free variation on the theme of the paths in Sir 24. A similar text is in one of the manuscripts of Euphrosynus of Beloozero. The prayer can be correlated with the controversy about the nature of Sophia that began in Novgorod at the turn of the 15th–16th centuries and that is most definitely reflected in a later work, the Authentic Story about What Is Sofei, the Wisdom of God. By selecting the “Lords” citations, the author of the prayer seems to argue against the tendency to identify Sophia with Our Lady. In the fragment using the motifs from Sirach, there are grammatical ambiguities that can be interpreted as a desire to avoid the use of the feminine in relation to Wisdom. The cultural status of this text can be compared with paraliturgical inscriptions from Novgorod studied by Tatiana Rozhdestvenskaya.

scholarly journals THE BEGINNING OF CHURCH CONSTRUCTION IN “RUSSIAN” SIBERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Ya. G. Solodkin
Keyword(s):  
European Russia ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Church Building ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

Churches in Siberia, as well as in European Russia, were already being built at the foundation of cities and jails at the end of the 16th century, which was to provide sacral protection of the territories that were part of the Moscow state. These churches were not always dedicated to the Trinity, contrary to the recent opinion; their names, often defined by the capital authorities, were very diverse. Among the first temples of Tyumen and Tobolsk it is impossible (as many historians claimed, following the Remezov chronicle) to include Spassky churches. The "church building" beyond the Urals first "was sent" from Moscow; from "Rus" or Verkhoturye to the fortresses built in the "Siberian land" priests for service were sometimes sent, giving them a ruga (a fee), and also (sometimes only for the sake of consecration of temples) deacons. The construction of churches in Tyumen, Tobolsk, Berezov, as well as in the neighboring cities and jails contributed to the final entrenchment of the huge Russian land, formerly under the rule of Khan Kuchum, his vassals and allies.

THEORIES OF THE MISSIONARY VOCATION OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN POST-SOVIET PROTESTANTISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Valentyn Syniy
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Spiritual Education ◽  
General Recognition ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Formal Construction

It is emphasized that the involvement of missionary theology in the discussion of ways to develop spiritual education allowed post-soviet Protestantism to successfully overcome differences in the vision of the formal construction of education, and then move on to discussions about its content. There was a gradual overcoming of modern individualism, the growing role of communities, the replacement of monologue models of mission with dialogical ones. The idea of the seminary as a community that is not self-sufficient, but serves the church as a community, has gained general recognition. The church also came to be understood as serving an eschatological ideal community similar to the Trinity community. The formation of community and dialogical models of missionary and educational activity allows Ukrainian Protestantism to effectively adapt to the realities of the beginning of the 21st century and to be proactive in today's society.

scholarly journals 'n Heilige, algemene kerk

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Nicene Creed ◽  
The Church

A holy, universal church. The Nicene Creed and the  Apostolicum went through different processes of growth and development. In the early development of both creeds, it is noticeable that articles about ‘the church’ are absent. In this contribution the creeds are examined in terms of their development, the inclusion of the articles on the church, their reception during the 16th century Reformation as well as difficulties in the official Afrikaans translations. It concludes with a short exposition of the Apostolicum’s article on the church (sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam).

scholarly journals A Body of Authority: Reorienting Gender and Power in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Phillip Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Spatial Logics

The 14th century mystic Julian of Norwich’s theology, dissolving gender binaries and incorporating medieval constructs of the female into the Trinity, captivates scholars across rhetorical, literary, and religious studies. A “pioneering feminist”, as Cheryll Glenn dubs her, scholarship attempts to account for the ways in which Julian’s theology circumvented the religious authority of male clerics. Some speculate that Julian’s authority arises from a sophisticated construction of audience (Wright). Others situate Julian in established traditions and structures of the Church, suggesting that she revised a mode of Augustinian mysticism (Chandler), or positing that her intelligence and Biblical knowledge indicate that she received religious training (Colledge and Walsh). Drawing from theories on space and gender performativity, this essay argues that Julian’s gendered body is the generative site of her authority. Bodies are articulated by spatial logics of power (Shome). Material environments discipline bodies and, in a kind of feedback loop, gendered performance (re)produces power in time and space. Spaces, though, are always becoming and never fixed (Chavez). An examination of how Julian reorients hierarchies and relations among power, space, and her body provides a hermeneutic for recognizing how gender is structured by our own material cultures and provides possibilities for developing practices that revise relations and create new agencies.

A theology of gratitude for rising generations

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-359
Author(s):  
Stephanie Townes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

Rising generations (Millennials and Gen Z) already have a solid understanding of gratitude from gratitude’s pervasiveness in popular culture, and because of this, gratitude is an opportunity for the Church to reach rising generations where they already are. To do this, the Church should underscore a theological why of gratitude and a practical theological how of gratitude. The theological why of gratitude is based on Kathryn Tanner’s gift-giving nature of God, from her book Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity. The practical theological how of gratitude will rise up from our holy habits of gratitude, both personal and collective, reinforced by the Eucharist, and taught through discipleship and practices of stewardship.

Yahweh, Women, and the Trinity

1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-242
Author(s):  
Jay G. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

“Might it not be possible, just at this moment when the fortunes of the church seem to be at low ebb, that we may be entering a new age, an age in which the Holy Spirit will become far more central to the faith, an age when the third person of the Trinity will reveal to us more fully who she is?”

scholarly journals From the Inquisition Pyre to Insertion into the Church: The Familial and Social Trajectory of Hernando Ortiz, a Jewish Convert in the Spanish Empire in the 16th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Clara Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Jewish Ancestry ◽  
The Family ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

This is a study of the trajectory of a Jewish converso who had a brilliant career at the University of Mexico in the 16th century: he received degrees from the faculties of arts, theology and law and was a professor for more than 28 years. He gained prestige and earned the respect of his fellow citizens, participated in monarchical politics and was an active member of his society, becoming the elected bishop of Guatemala. However, when he tried to become a judge of the Inquisition, a thorough investigation revealed his Jewish ancestry back in the Iberian Peninsula, causing his career to come to a halt. Further inquiry revealed that his grandmother had been burned by the Inquisition and accused of being a Judaizer around 1481; his nephews and nieces managed, in 1625, to obtain a letter from the Inquisition vouching for the “cleanliness of blood” of the family. Furthermore, the nephews founded an entailed estate in Oaxaca and forbade the heir of the entail to marry into the Jewish community. The university was a factor that facilitated their integration, but the Inquisition reminded them of its limits. The nephews denied their ancestors and became part of the society of New Spain. We have here a well-documented case that represents the possible existence of many others.

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