To the 120th Anniversary of the Moscow Valaam Farmstead: St. Patriarch Tikhon on the Farmstead in the 1920s

2020 ◽  
pp. 208-229
Author(s):  
Татьяна Ивановна Шевченко
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Calendar Reform ◽  
The Church ◽  
120Th Anniversary

Статья посвящена истории основания в Москве в 1901 г. и закрытия в 1924-1926 гг. подворья Спасо-Преображенского Валаамского монастыря. Акцент сделан на первом десятилетии существования подворья при большевистской власти, описываются обстоятельства посещений подворской церкви Святейшим Патриархом Московским и всея России Тихоном (Беллавиным) в 1922-1924 гг. События исследованы в контексте истории гонений на Церковь в Советской России и отображают отношение подворского братства к основным реалиям того времени: кампании изъятия церковных ценностей, обновленческому расколу, календарной реформе, процессу формирования отношений с властью и антирелигиозным гонениям. Несмотря на провокацию смуты, братья смогли сохранить единство и верность Патриарху Тихону, отвергли обновленческий раскол и устояли под давлением властей, не признававших их право на самоопределение в новом мире. The article covers the story of the establishment in 1901 and the closure in 1924-1926 of the Metochion of Valaam monastery of the Lord`s Transfiguration in Moscow. The author focuses on the first decade of the Metochion’s life under Bolshevik rule, describes the circumstances of the visit by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Tikhon (Bellavin) to the church at the Metochion in 1922-1924. The study was carried out in the context of the story of the persecution against the Church in Soviet Russia and reflects the attitude of the Valaam Brotherhood in Moscow to the main realities of the time - the company of the seizure of Church property, renovationists` schism, calendar reform, process of forming relations with the soviet government and anti-religious persecution. Despite the provocation, the brothers were able to maintain unity, loyalty to Patriarch Tikhon. They rejected the schism and resisted the pressure of the Bolshevik authorities who did not recognize their right to self-determination in the new world.

Creating Ecclesiastical and Civil Records: Problems of Institutional Transfer in Soviet Russia in the First Years after the 1917 Revolution

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5 (103)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Evgenia Tarasyutina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Empire ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The West ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The People ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Church ◽  
Parish Registers

This paper introduces how, the process of creating registry offices took place after the 1917 revolution. There were active discussions about the introduction of civil metrication in the Russian Empire in the middle of the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries, as well as in the West. This was due to the fact that it became more and more difficult to describe the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional population with the help of parish registers of various confessions. The situation with the collection of various statistics by the church has ceased to satisfy government officials. After the 1917 revolution, thanks to social and political prerequisites, the Bolsheviks were able to institutionalize this transition. Archival documents of the People's Commissariat of Justice and specialized periodicals show how, after The Decree on Separation of Church from State in 1918, the Soviet government was forced to organize a new civil institution, which took over the functions and tasks of the church in keeping registers of births, deaths and marriages.

Wounded Because of Religion: Identifying the Components of Gender-Specific Religious Persecution of Christians

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-141
Author(s):  
Helene Fisher ◽  
Elizabeth Lane Miller ◽  
Christof Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Central African Republic ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Emerging understanding of gender-specific religious persecution in some of the world’s most difficult countries for Christians offers timely insight into complex dynamics in which the church and missions have too often been unwittingly complicit due to limited visibility of the components contributing to these wounds. Fresh research into these deeply wounding global phenomena stands as both a warning and a pointer towards an avenue for effective ministrations by churches and Christian ministries that are working in the most severely affected areas of the world. Drawing on the latest trends identified by World Watch Research, outcomes of the Consultation for Christian Women under Pressure for their Faith, a contemporary case study from Central African Republic, and a biblical narrative, we will explore practical opportunities for a holistic approach to bring preparedness, healing, and restoration for communities under severe pressure for their Christian faith.

Foundations for a New World Order: Uniting Protestant Worship during the World War II Japanese American Incarceration

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-316
Author(s):  
Anne M. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
New World Order ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church

During the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, visions of a peaceful new world order led mainline Protestants to manipulate the worship practices of incarcerated Japanese Americans ( Nikkei) to strengthen unity of the church and nation. Ecumenical leaders saw possibilities within the chaos of incarceration and war to improve themselves, their church, and the world through these experiments based on ideals of Protestant ecumenism and desires for racial equality and integration. This essay explores why agendas that restricted the autonomy of racial minorities were doomed to fail and how Protestants can learn from this experience to expand their definition of unity to include pluralist representations of Christianity and America as imagined by different sects and ethnic groups.

Kastom, Syncretism and Self-Determination: the Reconciliation of Bipotaim and Pastaim in the Church of Torres Strait

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Steve Mullins
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
The Church

Late in 1997 the Anglican Church in Torres Strait, for more than eighty years the bastion of Torres Strait Christianity, split, and in the following year the new Church of Torres Strait came into being, its congregations aligned with the traditional Anglican communion. What follows is an attempt to unravel the complex political, communal and doctrinal issues that caused the split, considering them in the light of an ongoing assertion of indigenous self-determination which can be traced back to the colonial era. The article also briefly traces the emergence since the early 1980s of a potentially liberating syncretic theology in the Torres Strait Anglican tradition which may hold within it the possibility of a reconciliation between bipotaim and pastaim, darkness and light, and tries to assess the implications of the split for this nascent theology.

scholarly journals Church as a factor in the self-determination of a nation in a cultural and civilized environment

1999 ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Olga Nedavnya
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Church

At the end of the second Christian millennium, Christians united in the church of different denominations and ceremonies. The most devoted ones are looking for ecumenical paths, "that all be one." However, every person is free in his own way to build ties with the Lord. But, as emphasized by the first Metropolitan Rusich Ilarion in the "Word of Law and Grace," every person and the whole people are responsible before God. This statement is based on the authority of biblical texts. Therefore, Christians must worry not only about their own salvation, but also about the best, most natural and most useful arrangement of the Christian life of their nation.

Jesuits in the Twenty-First Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 1053-1072
Author(s):  
Benoît Vermander
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Formation Model ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
The Road ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

This chapter maps the road traveled by the Jesuits from the time they chose Pedro Arrupe as their Twenty-Eighth Superior General in 1965 till the election of their confrere Jorge Maria Bergoglio (Pope Francis) in March 2013, followed by the one of Arturo Sosa as the Thirty-First Superior General of the order in October 2016. During that period, the Jesuits significantly shifted priorities, highlighting integration between faith and justice and a return to the sources of Ignatian spirituality. Today’s mission is presented as being one of reconciliation among peoples, among religions, and with the whole creation. Internal challenges include shrinking global membership (while Asia and Africa are growing numerically), formation model for younger members, collaboration with laity, and protection of minors. Jesuits need to further their internal reform process while helping the church and society at large creatively respond to pressing global challenges.

The New World in Salvation History

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-47
Author(s):  
Timothy Matovina
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
New World ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Salvation History ◽  
The Church ◽  
Published Account

Readers of Miguel Sánchez’s Imagen de la Virgen María, which contained the first published account of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s acclaimed apparitions to the indigenous neophyte Juan Diego, rarely recognize that he was trained in the theology of the church fathers, particularly in the writings of Saint Augustine. Interpretations of Sánchez have ranged from positivist condemnations for his lack of historical documentation to laudatory praise for his defense of pious tradition to emphases on his criollo patriotism as expressed through his adulation of Guadalupe and the baroque culture of New Spain. This chapter assesses Sánchez’s work as well as the origins and formative phase of Guadalupan devotion over the century preceding his publication. It illuminates the influence of patristic thought and theological method on Sánchez, as well as the frequently ignored but foundational role of his theology and that of the church fathers on the Guadalupe tradition.

2. Supporting background stimuli

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
International Network ◽  
New Birth ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
The Church

‘Supporting background stimuli’ explains how John Wesley’s connections with the Moravians, which had such a dramatic impact upon him when he was a young missionary, reveal that he was part of an international network of revival and awakening that stretched from Germany to England and into the New World. There was a shift from Christianity as a mere system of orthodox beliefs, to Christianity as a living relationship with God that leads to love of God and neighbour. The great themes of this form of Christianity were new birth and sanctification. John Wesley’s job as the Methodists’ leader was to reform the nation, especially the church, and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land.

How Civic is Russia's New Civil Religion and How Religious is the Church?

2017 ◽  
pp. 125-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Teper
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Model ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Religious Elements ◽  
The Church

This chapter demonstrates how and why a shift in the balance between civic and religious elements of a civil religion can take place, using Russia as an illuminating case study. Post-Soviet Russia is used to demonstrate how religion can be utilized to reinforce national identity and the legitimacy of the political system in the face of their civic weaknesses. The chapter demonstrates how, eventually, the civic-democratic political model officially designated during Yeltsin's presidency gradually changed to a more religiously grounded one, albeit a model that is not fully recognized, during Putin's rule. Moreover, the Russian case allows us to differentiate between two possible levels of civil religion: an official and openly communicated secularism, and an established church religion, promoted by the establishment in more subtle but not necessarily less aggressive ways. It further shows that just as the state has to adopt religious features in order to be deified, religious institutions have themselves to become more secular to be suitable for adoption as the state's civil religion.

Religious Diplomacy and Socialism

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-43
Author(s):  
Lucian N. Leustean
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
House Arrest ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This article analyzes the relationship between the Orthodox Church and the communist regime during one of the most intense periods of religious persecution in the Romanian People's Republic from 1956 to 1959. The church hierarchy demonstrated its support for the socialist construction of the country, while, at the same time, the regime began a campaign against religion by arresting clergy and reducing the number of religious people in monasteries; rumours even circulated that in 1958 Patriarch Justinian was under house arrest. Seeking closer contact with Western Europe, the regime allowed the hierarchy to meet foreign clergymen, especially from the Church of England. These diplomatic religious encounters played a double role. The regime realised that it could benefit from international ecclesiastical relations, while the image of Justinian in the West changed from that of “red patriarch” to that of a leader who was genuinely interested in his church's survival.

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