On the Problem of the History of the Formula for the Consecration of the Holy Gifts in the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Тихон Зимин
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Special Study ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
History Of

В статье обосновывается необходимость специального исследования важнейшего момента литургии, связанного с освящением евхаристических Даров. Для понимания смысла текста необходимо очистить его от позднейших наслоений. Также рассматривается история формирования формулы освящения Святых Даров. Автор прослеживает изменения данного текста, начиная с древнейших свидетельств, относящихся ко II в., вплоть до XIV в., когда окончательно сложился поздневизантийский чин анафоры. Сделан вывод о позднем характере слов: «преложив Духом Твоим Святым» - и о ещё более позднем времени формирования практики троекратного благословения Святых Даров. The article substantiates the need for a special study of the most important moment of the liturgy associated with the consecration of Eucharistic Gifts. To understand the meaning of the text it is necessary to clear it from the later layers. Also the history of the formation of the formula of the consecration of the Sacred Gifts is considered. The author traces the changes in this text, beginning with the most ancient evidence relating to the II century continuing upto the XIV century, when the final formation of the late Byzantine anaphora took place. A conclusion is made about the lateness of the words «changing Them by Thy Holy Spirit» and about the even later time of formation of practice of the triple blessing of the Holy Gifts.

Andrey Murav’yov’s travel in Abkhazia

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-233
Author(s):  
Marina I. Shcherbakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
City Life ◽  
Literary Pilgrimage ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic State ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the little-known travel notes about Abkhazia by Andrey N. Murav’yov, an outstanding Russian spiritual writer, the pioneer of the genre of literary pilgrimage travels, the discoverer of Christian and Orthodox shrines in Russia and abroad for his compatriots and contemporaries. Travel essay “Abkhazia. Pitsunda”, included as a separate chapter in the book “Georgia and Armenia”, was created under the impression of the author’s trip in the spring of 1847 to the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. It presents genre sketches of the city life of Sukhumi, descriptions of the luxurious southern nature, it gives excursions into the history of the region, and it characterises the features of the economic state. The main part of Andrey Murav’yov’s Black Sea memories concerns Pitsunda. As a deep connoisseur of the history of Christianity, Andrey Murav’yov traced its ancient roots in the land of Abkhazia, where the apostles Simon the Canaanean, Andrew the First- Called, St. John Chrysostom. In detailed descriptions of the ancient churches, the writer recorded their condition; despite the artistic form of the story, they have the value of a reliable historical document that helps to reconstruct many of the losses that occurred under the influence of time.

Persons in Patristic and Medieval Christian Theology

Persons ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 52-84
Author(s):  
Scott M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
General Definition ◽  
William Of Ockham ◽  
Individual Substance ◽  
Origen Of Alexandria ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Trinity

By surveying the history of Christian theology of the Trinity and Incarnation from Origen of Alexandria to William of Ockham, this chapter shows that Boethius’s addition of rationality to the definition of persona is a significant moment in the history of personhood. Among Greek and Syriac philosophical theologians, rationality was not included in theorizing about what made each divine individual or hypostasis (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) distinct from the others. The evidence surveyed suggests that rationality is included in the definition of a persona only in Latin authors after Boethius. Nevertheless, rationality did no substantive work in Boethius’s or later Latin authors’ theorizing about the Trinity or Incarnation with regard to personhood. Richard of St. Victor replaced Boethius’s “individual substance” with “incommunicable existence” in order to give a fully general definition of persona. This change was widely accepted by later philosophers (e.g., John Locke) and theologians.

Ethics vs. Law: St. Paul, the Fathers of the Church and the “Cheerful Giver” in Roman Law

Traditio ◽  
1944 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 97-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard F. Bruck
Keyword(s):  
Roman Law ◽  
Moral Claim ◽  
Border Line ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

The present study deals with a segment from the history of the eternal problem, Ethics and Law, and their interrelation. It investigates the origin and evolution of a moral idea—the meaning of goodwill in action, and especially in giving. Some of the greatest and most noble minds of all times have cooperated in this evolution—Aristotle, St. Paul, and St. John Chrysostom. Emperor Justinian undertook later the attempt to anchor this moral claim in law. The attempt failed. The failure unveils the border line between ethics and law.

A History of Heresy Past: The Sermons of Chromatius of Aquileia, 388–407

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-296
Author(s):  
Robert McEachnie
Keyword(s):  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
The North ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
Institutional Memory ◽  
History Of ◽  
North End

Chromatius served as bishop of Aquileia, a large trade-centered city at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, from 388–407. He interacted with notables like Rufinus, Jerome, Ambrose, and John Chrysostom, but our knowledge of Chromatius was limited to second-hand statements until the rediscovery of his sermons in the last century. When one examines the sermons in their original context, a disconnect on the issue of heresy emerges. Based on a survey of Christianities in northern Italy, it seems that the variety we might expect is lacking in the sources. An examination of the region reveals that the area during this time was remarkably homogenous in terms of the diversity among its Christian adherents. In Aquileia, Chromatius would have been unchallenged by other churches. In light of that, what did his continued tirades against non-existent “heretical” groups achieve? By examining the whole of each sermon mentioning heretics a pattern emerges surrounding the history of heresy and orthodoxy. The maintenance of institutional memory was not done sentimentally, but to advance the domination Christians had achieved into new arenas, namely, for Chromatius, control over an urban religious space which included Judaism.

Is it possible to discover ‘the one’ intended meaning of the biblical authors?

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-194
Author(s):  
C. Jason White
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Objective Meaning ◽  
The One ◽  
Reference Tools

AbstractA major pursuit of biblical studies, especially since the dawn of the Enlightenment, has been to discover the one, intended, objective meaning of the various biblical texts. Over the last several hundred years, a plethora of methodological paradigms, biblical language and reference tools, historical studies, sociological analyses, comparative linguistic investigations, and anthropological and cultural examinations have all been published through many outlets by a host of people for the purpose of finding THE meaning the biblical authors wished to convey to their respective audiences. Although the results of all these works have positively contributed to our knowledge of scripture in profound ways, the problem is this: none can claim that they have actually discovered this one objective meaning. This is not to say, however, that there are not better understandings of scripture which point more adequately to the originally intended meaning, but simply that the best anyone can do is interpret scripture. The consequence of interpretation, though, is the relativity of meaning. In other words, there are several interpretations of scripture which can validly point to the intended meaning of the biblical authors and texts. One purpose of this article, then, will be to explore why it is not possible to find the one intended meaning of scripture, by defining some key concepts (e.g. tradition and presupposition) in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, who is one of the most influential names in the history of philosophical hermeneutics of the twentieth century, as interpreted by Merold Westphal.Some scriptural interpreters, especially evangelicals, are frightened by the idea that biblical meaning is relative because such a pluralistic approach can lead quickly to the demise of biblical infallibility and authority. A second major purpose of this article will be to help ease such fear by offering a biblically grounded theological justification for the interpretative plurality of scripture by looking at the relativity of meaning through the lens of the doctrine of the Trinity. This justification will suggest that the more we rely upon the Holy Spirit and act out our faith in God through Jesus Christ in and outside of the church, the better our interpretation of scripture will become.

Experiences of Spiritual Visitation and Impregnation: Potential Induction by Frequency-Modulated Transients from an Adjacent Clock

2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Persinger ◽  
S. A. Koren
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Magnetic Anomalies ◽  
Brain Trauma ◽  
Female Adolescent ◽  
Left Shoulder ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
History Of

A left-handed Roman Catholic female adolescent with a history of early brain trauma reported nightly visitations by a sentient being. During one episode she experienced vibrations of the bed, an external presence along the left side that moved into her body, inner vaginal (not clitoral) and uterine sensations, and the sense of being impregnated by a force she attributed to the Holy Spirit. After the latter experience she felt an invisible baby superimposed upon her left shoulder. Analyses of the measurements for magnetic anomalies within her bedroom indicated an electric clock about 20 cm from her head while she slept. The complex form of the 4 microT magnetic pulses generated by the clock was similar to shapes that evoke electrical seizures in epileptic rats and sensitive humans.

The Ending of Eunapius’ History

Antichthon ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 170-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Blockley
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Ammianus Marcellinus ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Military Activity ◽  
Coherent Picture

When in A.D. 378 Ammianus Marcellinus fails us we have for the rest of the century and, indeed, for the whole history of the Theodosian house in the East a considerable amount of varied documentation. But, lacking ‘an accurate and faithful guide’ like Ammianus, for a coherent picture of the political and military activity of the period we must have recourse to the inferior and derivative New History of Zosimus, partisan ecclesiastical histories, and late and skimpy chronicles. In these circumstances the fragments of the History of Eunapius, preserved mostly in the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, but also in some notices of the Suda, have considerable value. For, despite Eunapius’ clear inferiority to Ammianus as an historian, he was a contemporary of the events which he described. The fragments have been underused, which is probably due to the common, though not wholly accurate, opinion that Zosimus, being nothing more than a slavish copier of Eunapius, faithfully preserves what his source wrote. Yet (ignoring the problem of the degree of Zosimus’ dependence) he greatly condensed his source, and thus there is much in the Eunapian survivals that is not in the New History. The final fragments (80-88), to which I wish to address myself, are especially important because much of their material corresponds to a lacuna in Zosimus’ text, and the ecclesiastical historians,who make some use of Eunapius, appear to have deserted him here, probably because they found his version of events, especially those involving John Chrysostom, unpalatable.

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