scholarly journals “The Right Hand is Lying on the Chest, as if Blessing …” Legends of the Blessing Hand of a Saint in the Context of the Struggle of the Official Russian Church with the Old Believers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Semiachko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Reform Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Church Schism ◽  
The Right ◽  
Church Councils ◽  
As If

The article examines the early history of Anna of Kashin and Euthymius of Arkhangelsk’s cults. Their veneration began at the end of the 1640s and acquired new content several decades later, after the Russian Church schism. The author of the article focuses on the origin of the legends, according to which the saints rest in their tombs with fingers of their right hands positioned as if they were making a two-finger sign of the cross. The study is based on hagiographic texts dedicated to these saints, legislative acts, documents of church councils, and icons. The author comes to the conclusion that the legends had oral roots and originated among the opponents of Nikon's reforms in the early post-reform period.

THE CHANCELLERY OF CONTRACT AFFAIRS (TO THE HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN RUSSIA IN PETER THE GREAT’S TIME)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
D.A. REDIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Early History ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Administrative Regulation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Distinct Features

The purpose of the article is to research the history of creation and formation of the Chancellery of Contract Affairs – the first supervisory and regulatory body in the field of public procurement in Russia. The early history of the Contracting Chancellery (1715–1717) can be traced in the context of the development of legislative and administrative regulation of public procurement during the reign of Peter the Great. The institution of public procurement itself, according to the author, is associated with the acquisition of distinct features of the modern state by Russia, which was manifested in the previous time. The immediate impetus for the development of the institution was the reform of the armed forces and the resulting mobilization efforts of the supreme power. The very content of the research predetermined the use of source-based and historical-legal methods. As a result of the study, the author states that the creation of a special body – the Chancellery of Contract Affairs, designed to take control of the situation under state contracts, turned out to be the right decision. The well-coordinated work of the Contracting Chancellery with the Senate, fiscal authorities and investigative bodies led to the creation of a number of important regulatory legal acts, almost ‘from scratch’ forming the legislative basis for the institution of public procurement functioning. The need for further work on the designated topic is noted.

Ten Articles on the Freedom and Service of the Church

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-398
Keyword(s):  
Right Hand ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

‘Looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.’ (Heb. 12.2–3.)

Wyclif and the wheel of time

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Time Factor ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Right Relationship ◽  
The Right ◽  
As If

During the 1370s Wyclif wrote to defend a monarchy which made extensive use of bishops and other clergy in the royal administration and yet was faced with aristocratic factions encouraged by bishops like Wykeham and Courtenay who espoused papal supremacy, if not out of conviction, at least as a very convenient weapon to support their independence against royal absolutism. At first sight Wyclifs attempts to define the right relationship between royal and episcopal, temporal and spiritual, power seem as confused as the contemporary political situation. His works contain such a wide range of theories from orthodox two swords dualism to a radical rejection of ecclesiastical authority well beyond that of Marsilius and Ockham that it seems as if his only interest was in collecting every anti-hierocratic idea available for use against the papacy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a much more coherent view of episcopal power can be detected beneath his tirades if it is appreciated that his continual demand for a great reform, a reformatio regni et ecclesiae, is inseparably linked to his understanding of the history of the Christian Church, and that in this way Wyclif anticipates Montesquieu in requiring a time factor as a necessary ingredient in constitutional arrangements.

A 76-year-old man with a five-day history of painful swelling of the right hand

JAMA ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 250 (11) ◽  
pp. 1441-1442
Author(s):  
J. M. Aronchick
Keyword(s):  
Right Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

The lost chant tradition of early Christian Jerusalem: some possible melodic survivals in the Byzantine and Latin chant repertories

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 151-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Gregorian Chant ◽  
Complex State ◽  
Annual Cycles ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
History Of ◽  
As If

The medieval chant traditions of the Eastern and Western churches can generally be traced back to about the tenth century, when the earliest surviving notated manuscripts were created. In these earliest sources, the various traditions are already distinct from each other and fully formed, each with thousands of chants that are assigned to at least eight modes and belong to dozens of melody types or families, carefully distributed across the daily, weekly and annual cycles of a complicated liturgical calendar. Yet we have hardly any information at all as to how these traditions evolved into the highly complex state in which we first find them. Where did they come from and when did they originate? How and when did they achieve the relatively fixed form in which we know them? Questions such as these have been important in chant research during the last thirty years, ever since Willi Apel outlined what he called ‘the “central” problem of the chant, that is, the question concerning its origin and development’. But attempts to investigate these questions have often been conceived too narrowly, overlooking as much evidence as they include or more. For instance, many scholars have written about ‘the central problem’ as if it belonged mainly to Gregorian chant and its close relative, the Old Roman or special Urban repertory, when in fact the origins and early history of almost every tradition of Eastern and Western chant are equally obscure.

Left-Handed Theology and Inclusiveness

Horizons ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-216
Author(s):  
Gordon Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Theology Of The Cross ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Left Handedness ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Right

AbstractIn the concern for inclusiveness, one area that has been largely neglected is the discrimination against left-handedness. This paper looks briefly at some of the scriptural and social stigmas and implications attached to left-handedness. Using Luther's theology of the cross as its basis, a left-handed theology is introduced. Arguing for the need for a theology which focuses on those who are marginalized, a left-handed theology offers a model whereby God's left hand offers to those who are in “minority” positions grace and solidarity. This is contrasted to the right hand of God, which portrays a God of power, strength, and triumphalism. The hand of God which one chooses to relate to determines, then, how one does theology, and how a theological inclusiveness is developed.

The Likeness of an Author

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-132
Author(s):  
Niv Allon
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Close Inspection ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Military Background ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

This chapter shifts to three-dimensional art and studies scribal statues. It traces back the history of this statuary motif through time, studying changes in the texts inscribed on the statue and the gesture of the right hand. Analyzing these elements, the chapter investigates the relationships between statue, patron, and text. A close inspection of this statuary motif reveals a growing emphasis on the act of writing and a reinterpretation of the literacy act. Focusing on the Eighteenth Dynasty patrons who commissioned such statues once again suggests that men of military background like Haremhab play a significant role in disseminating images of literacy through their self-representation.

Hypseocharis reveals early history of physical dormancy in Geraniaceae

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Filip Vandelook ◽  
Ann Van de Vyver ◽  
Edgar E. Gareca
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Early Evolution ◽  
Andes Mountains ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Physical Dormancy ◽  
Germination Ecology ◽  
The Andes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Basal Position

AbstractHypseocharis is a genus endemic to the high Andes and sister to all other Geraniaceae genera. Regarding its basal position in Geraniaceae evolution, its germination ecology can provide important insights into the early evolution of physical dormancy. Imbibition tests performed on seeds of two Hypseocharis populations from Bolivia indicate that their seeds indeed have physical dormancy like all other Geraniaceae. These results indicate that physical dormancy in Geraniaceae evolved during the Eocene before the uplift of the Andes mountains and before the events that led to the cross-Atlantic disjunct distribution of Geraniacae.

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