On the problems of teaching church history subjects in the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church

2019 ◽  
pp. 305-313
Author(s):  
Иоанн Кечкин

Статья посвящена проблемам, которые существуют в преподавании церковноисторических дисциплин в духовных заведениях Русской Православной Церкви. По мнению автора, основные проблемы заключаются в исключении курса «Общая церковная история» из учебного плана бакалавриата, во введении новых предметов и как следствие этого, в размывании тематических границ между церковно-историческими дисциплинами. Автор высказывает своё частное, субъективное мнение относительно вариантов улучшения преподавания церковно-исторических дисциплин в духовных заведениях Русской Православной Церкви. The article deals with the problems that exist in the teaching of church-historical disciplines in ecclesiastical institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to the author, the main problems are the exclusion of the course "General Church History" from the Baccalaureate curriculum, the introduction of new subjects and, as a consequence, the blurring of thematic boundaries between church-historical disciplines. The author expresses his private, subjective opinion on the options for improving the teaching of church history disciplines in ecclesiastical institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Irina V. Lobanova ◽  

In the article through the prism of the fate of E.A. Karmanov, a church publisher, editor and bibliophile, shows the complex process of survival of Russian church history science in the Soviet period. Deprived of the possibility of development, it turned out to be focused on the task of preserving its pre-revolutionary heritage and new manuscript evidence, which was to become material for future research. Under these conditions, the role of collectors and keepers of the book culture of the church became very important, as was E.A. Karmanov (1927 1998).


2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Protopriest Alexander Romanchuk

The article examines the little-known event in the Church history of the Western Russian region – the Pinsk General Congregation of 1791, which put on its agenda the issue of the subordination of the Orthodox population in Poland to the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The author traces the premises, course and significance of this meeting of the Orthodox clergy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the role of the Patriarch of Constantinople Neophytos VII in its holding and his guiding motives. It is concluded that: 1) the Pinsk Congregation was an unlawful assembly from the canonical point of view, and it served to intensify the actions of the Russian Empire against the Polish statehood; 2) the motives for the support of the Congregation on the part of the leadership of the Patriarchate of Constantinople were the idea of the universal power of Constantinople in the Orthodox world, and also the Greek nationalism; 3) the assistance to the separatist movement of the Orthodox clergy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealths in 1791 became, chronologically, the first experience of Phanar’s hostile actions against Russian Orthodox Church.


Author(s):  
S. P. Bychkov ◽  
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O. V. Gefner ◽  

The article is devoted to the problem of changing the view of the historian of the Russian Orthodox Church Anton V. Kartashev on the peculiarities of the existence of Orthodoxy in the historical period of the Russian Empire. By comparing pre-revolutionary articles and publications of the 1930s and 1950s, the key positions of these changes are determined, and the factors that contributed to the evolution of the historian's scientific views are identified. The author concludes that Kartashev turns from an active critic of church shortcomings into an apologist of the Russian Church of the imperial period, and reveals many positive features of the existence of Orthodoxy during the period of Synodal administration. Russian Russian Orthodox Church, A.V. Kartashev, The Concept of Russian Church History, Synodal administration.


Author(s):  
Oksana Babenko ◽  

The review examines the works of Polish researches in which the problems of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church are analyzed. The relationship along the lines of «church-state» and «church-intelligentsia» is presented. The conclusions of Polish historians boil down to the fact that the church and the state in Russia interacted in order to turn Orthodoxy into the state religion.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-257
Author(s):  
Evgeny Viktorovich Drobotushenko ◽  
Yuliya Nikolaevna Lantsova

The paper deals with various aspects of the Orthodox Church history in China on the basis of a rich source - materials of white emigrant Church organizations collected in one large file of the Fund 9145 Collections of individual documents of various emigrant organizations of the state archive of the Russian Federation. This file contains correspondence on specific issues as well as various flyers, brochures, newspaper articles, posters, announcements, reports, statements, notes with the characteristics of various aspects of Orthodox history and covers the time period from 1924 to 1936. Articles from the Newspapers Zarya, Gong Bao as well as a spiritual magazine Bread heavenly, etc. deal with the key issues of the transition of the Chinese clergy under the control of the Synod of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia under the canonical jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, etc. Unfortunately, despite the considerable interest in the history of Russian emigration in the second quarter of the 20th century in China, as well as in the history of Orthodoxy in the country, the documents of this file have not been widely known, although they are the supplement of the little-known pages of Orthodox history.


Author(s):  
Anna M. Novotortseva

The article is devoted to the life and archpastoral service of Metropolitan of Crimea and Simferopol Guriy (Yegorov), Candidate of Theology, who passed through prison camps and deportations from the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea–Baltic Canal to Central Asia, Ashkhabad and Tashkent; the founder and one of the leaders of Alexander Nevsky fraternity in Leningrad, who secretly preserved the traditions of Russian monasticism and theological and pastoral knowledge. The scientifi c signifi cance of the article is represented by factual material from the personal fi le of Guriy (Yegorov), Metropolitan of Crimea and Dnepropetrovsk, from the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the fund of the Council on the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1943-1965), revealing the clergyman's stay in Saratov, Minsk, Leningrad and Crimean departments, since 1953. The article reveals the confessional feat of Metropolitan Guriy and shows the features of forming of state-church relations in the Soviet period (in the 1950s and the 1960s). Article material may be of interest of researchers in the fi eld of the Russian Orthodox Church history, as well as of church history on the whole and of history of Russia of modern times.


Author(s):  
Ю.В. Гераськин ◽  
И.Е. Кленяева

В статье исследуется государственная конфессиональная политика середины 1960-х годов, после отстранения Н. С. Хрущёва от власти. В качестве примеров используются материалы Рязанской области. Целью работы является попытка проанализировать процесс изменений в сфере государственно-церковных отношений, выявить характерные черты и особенности. Рассматриваемый исторический период был поворотным от эпохи гонений на религию к более или менее лояльному диалогу с религиозными организациями. Освещаются новеллы в сфере законодательства о культах и вероисповедной политике власти. Объектом особой заботы рязанского уполномоченного были незарегистрированные общины истинно православных христиан, старообрядцев, мусульман и особенно евангельских христиан-баптистов (ЕХБ). В отношении представителей ЕХБ было организовано уголовное преследование, им не разрешалась ни под каким предлогом аренда молитвенных помещений, что создавало тем самым непреодолимое препятствие для их государственной регистрации. Власть была озабочена также растущей доходностью Русской православной церкви. Особое внимание в статье уделяется эпизодам, связанным с сопротивлением верующих рецидивам проводимой государством антирелигиозной политики, с отстаиванием представителями разных религиозных деноминаций конституционного права на свободу вероисповедания. Изложенные в статье факты иллюстрируют наличие проблем в процессе нормализации взаимодействия органов государственной власти и религиозных организаций, что, в свою очередь, свидетельствует о неоднозначности и противоречивости поворота к новому формату работы. Стереотипы прошлых лет изживались достаточно трудно, поэтому процесс нормализации отношений государственных органов с верующими протекал медленно. Материал, изложенный в публикации, может быть полезен при изучении учебных курсов по истории России, истории Русской православной церкви, религиоведения. The article investigates Soviet confessional politics in the mid-1960s after N. S. Khrushchevʼs resignation. The authors illustrate their ideas using materials related to the Ryazan region. The aim of the article is to analyze changes in the sphere of church-state relations and to single out some characteristic features. The investigated historical period symbolized a transition from religious persecution to a milder attitude towards religious organizations. The article treats some novels issued by the Soviet law system and regarding cults and confession politics. Unregistered Christian, Muslim, Baptist and Old-Believer communities were the Ryazan Ombudsmanʼs primary concern. Evangelical Christian Baptists were legally persecuted and were strictly forbidden to rent church buildings and prayer rooms and therefore could not get registered. The authorities were troubled by the growing wealth of the Russian Orthodox Church. The article focuses on some episodes associated with Christian resistance to anti-religious campaigns launched by the Soviet authorities and with religious representativesʼ attempts to defend the right of believers to freedom of religion. The authors of the article provide facts that highlight strenuous relations between the Soviet authorities and religious organizations. Stereotypes of the past were difficult to discard and overcome and the normalization of church-state relations was a long process. The article can be used in Russian history courses, in Russian Orthodox Church history courses and in religious studies courses.


Slavic Review ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 614-635
Author(s):  
Edward E. Roslof

The complex interaction between religion and atheism in the former Soviet Union continues to attract scholarly interest. Recent studies of Russian Orthodox Church history during the early Soviet era have broken new ground, yet institutional and political concerns continue to dominate the discussion. Exceptions to this trend place religion in a broader social framework, thereby yielding new insights into religion as a cultural system that the Bolsheviks attacked.


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