scholarly journals Myroslav Lushchak: in the footsteps of the Stanislaviv seminarian

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-231
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Kolomyichuk ◽  
Mykhailo Dydyk ◽  
Mykhailo Kachurak ◽  
Dmytro Multan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Returning Home ◽  
Great Love ◽  
Cooperative Organization ◽  
The Church

The main stages of the life of Myroslav Luschak were revealed and analysed in the article. Myroslav Luschak was a graduate of the Stanislaviv Theological Seminary, worked as an employee of the Ukrainian cooperative and a merchant, a man whose dreams about priesthood life were suddenly interrupted during Soviet intervention in Eastern Galicia. Based on archival sources, witness stories, specific scientific literature and journalism issues the main events of the life of the mentioned personality in childhood, adolescence and adulthood were revealed. When Myroslav finished school, he began to work at the railway station together with his father and elder brother. All that time Myroslav’s parents were instilling a great love for God to him. In 1930-1931 he served in the Polish army. A few years later Myroslav Luschak started to work in the Ukrainian cooperative organization, and in 1939 he worked as a seller in «Maslosoyuz». In the same year Myroslav Luschak graduated the Stanislaviv Seminary and wanted to become a priest. The main attention is paid to period 1939-1941, when Soviet occupation of Stanislaviv caused fateful events in the life of Myroslav Luschak and led finally to his death. From September 1939 to June 1941 he worked at the Universal freight base Oblspozhyvspilka in Stanislaviv. In June 1941 when Myroslav Luschak was returning home from the church, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD and imprisoned in the Stanislaviv prison. Myroslav disappeared without a trace after his arrest, and his relatives searched for him for many years. Only in October 1989 during the archeological excavations of Demianiv Laz close to Ivano-Frankivsk the documents of Myroslav Luschak were found. Repressions of the Soviet totalitarian regime against people and Church are considered by the authors of this article as the main reasons of the destroyed dreams of the researched person.

scholarly journals Church-State Relations in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921)

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 255-269
Author(s):  
Dimitry Gegenava
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Republic Of Georgia ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Official Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Church

Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) was one of the unique states in the first quarter of XX century. Despite the historical relations between the Church and the State in Georgia, the social-democratic government changed its official policy and chose French secularism, which was very unusual for the country. This was incorporated in the Constitution of 1921. This article is about the Georgian church-state relations during 1918-1921, the positive and negative aspects of the chosen form of secularism and the challenges that the newly independent State faced in the sphere of religious freedom until the Soviet occupation.

I Want More of You: The Politics of Christian Eroticism in Postwar Guatemala

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Teenage Girl ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
Intense Pain ◽  
Eyes Closed ◽  
The Face ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Great Love ◽  
The Church

The image appeared on the cover of a Sunday bulletin, produced and distributed by one of Guatemala City's most conservative neo-Pentecostal mega-churches. The picture presented the face of a young teenage girl, her eyes closed, lips wet, and skin kissed by a soft, transcendent light; the young woman's head was even tilted to the side in what Jacques Lacan would call jouissance (1998). Across her pink lips read Psalm 4:6: “In peace, I lay myself down.” This image, stitched together by the church's media relations department, makes a sly reference to Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture, St. Teresa in Ecstasy (1652). The statue in Rome presents one of Teresa of Ávila's (1515–1582) mystical experiences of God, which the sixteenth-century Spanish saint narrates with unblinkingly erotic imagery. In her autobiography, St. Teresa writes how “the great love of God” often left her “utterly consumed,” “penetrated to [her] entrails,” and made her “utter several moans” for both the “intense pain” and its “sweetness” (Peers 1927: 197). With St. Teresa in mind, my own reaction to the church bulletin parroted Jacques Lacan's response to Bernini's statue. “She's coming,” Lacan commented, “There's no doubt about it” (1998: 76).

Etiopathogenetic aspects of otosclerosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
V. M. Svistushkin ◽  
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E. V. Sin’kov ◽  
I. V. Stozhkova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Molecular Genetic ◽  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Progressive Hearing Loss ◽  
Common Causes ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Research

Otosclerosis is one of the most common causes of progressive hearing loss, in particular in people of working age. The effectiveness of stapedial surgery largely determines the interest in studying the problems and prospects for the development of technologies, namely, the improvement of prostheses, surgical techniques, and assistance during interventions. It is worth noting that the main attention in the scientific literature is paid to the description of the clinic, the diagnosis of otosclerosis, as well as the methods of stapedoplasty. However, the question of the etiology and pathogenesis of this disease remains relevant and open for discussion, despite the many domestic and foreign works in this field. The emergence of new research methods, including molecular-genetic ones, contributed to the transition of research to a new level and the development of several new theories. Modern understanding of the pathogenesis of otosclerosis considers this disease as a multifactorial condition, in which many processes are involved, for example, genetic, hormonal, biochemical, and immunological. Likely, further study of the theory and hypothesis of the development of otosclerosis will find their justification, which will help answer many questions. The purpose of this article is to analyze and systematize data concerning various theories of the etiopathogenesis of the otosclerosis process, based on the study of modern domestic and foreign literature.

scholarly journals Hervormde voetspore op die Tukkie-kampus: ’n Kroniek van die eerste 50 jaar

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
André G. Ungerer
Keyword(s):  
Theological Education ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

In 2017 the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA) celebrates its centenary of theological education at the University of Pretoria (UP). In this article the focus is on the build-up to setting up the first 50 years 1917– 1967 at UP. From as early as 1909 there was a yearning for our own theological seminary; however, some of the church leaders expressed their desire for theological education at a university. At the dawn of 1916 everything was in place for the NHKA and the Presbyterian Church of South Africa, as the first two partners, to start a faculty of theology at the Transvaal University College (TUC). On 01 April 1917 the Faculty of Theology commenced its work with prof. J.H.J.A. Greyvenstein of the NHKA and prof. E. MacMillan from the Presbyterian Church. The Presbyterian link with the faculty was broken in 1933. From 1938 the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) joined the NHKA and two independent sections were established: Section A for the NHKA and Section B for the NGK. There was a steady growth in the number of students and professors and on 13 June 1967 the NHKA filled its sixth professorship in the person of prof. I.J. de Wet. This era was also characterised by a lot of political tension in the heyday of the policy of apartheid. The NHKA was known for Article III in its constitution that propagates that church membership was for whites only. The NHKA support of the policy of apartheid was the cause of a dispute between the Church and prof. A.S. Geyser. In the end the matter was settled in favour of Geyser. There was also a dispute between professors A.G. Geyser and A.D. Pont that ended up in court in 1967. Pont was accused of defamation against Geyser. The court ruled against Pont and Geyser was granted the largest amount of compensation up till then.

The Birth of a Journal

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Donald G. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Church

As we conceived of Interpretation, we had no interest in merely launching another journal; in providing another channel of literary expression; or in creating another public relations medium for the purpose of making Union Theological Seminary more widely known. No, we designed Interpretation to have a mission. Our aim was to create a medium through which the church would understand more fully its nature as the body of Christ giving expression to the will of its head.

Staging Resistance from the Clergy During the Holocaust

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-401
Author(s):  
Gene A. Plunka
Keyword(s):  
Edith Stein ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Christian Humanism ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
Moral Position ◽  
The Church

The resistance to the Holocaust from Catholic and Protestant clergymen came in myriad forms. A few clergy willingly gave up their lives, thus becoming martyrs for refusing to be judged by Nazi law, surrendering instead to divine justice. Such noble and heroic decisions in which a humble person surrenders life in defiance of a totalitarian regime opposed to Christian humanism is a subject most worthy of study. This essay focuses exclusively on stage representations of the extreme sacrifices the clergy made during the Holocaust as reflected by martyrdom in Arthur Giron’s Edith Stein and David Gooderson’s Kolbe’s Gift. The protagonists of these two plays, Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, died and suffered greatly to uphold the moral position of the Church.

scholarly journals SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ASPECTS OF REVITALIZATION OF HISTORIC URBAN CENTERS: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Indrė Gražulevičiutė-Vileniškė ◽  
Vilius Urbonas
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western City ◽  
Historic City

The structure and architecture of many European cities has started their development during the Middle Ages or even earlier. The historic cores gradually had become centers of contemporary cities and are constantly evolving. They are affected by the tendencies of destruction, initiatives and movements of preservation are also taking place there. The comprehensive works of rehabilitation of Lithuanian historic urban centers were carried out during the period of soviet occupation. The insularity of the Soviet empire, ideological reasons and the absence of the private property has determined certain architectural expressions and solutions for the social problems. After the restoration of the country‘s independence the problems and tendencies typical to Western city centers, such as commercialization and gentrification, started to appear in Lithuanian historic urban cores. This justifies the aim of the article which is to analyze the tendencies of revitalization of historic city centers in Western countries with the main attention to the social and architectural aspects.

scholarly journals Images of Relations between Nobility and Peasantry in Russian Liberal Literature in Late 19th — Early 20th Centuries

2021 ◽  
pp. 391-409
Author(s):  
M. A. Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Free Action ◽  
Local History ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Liberal Thought

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the representation of relations between the nobility and the peasantry in Russian liberal thought at the cusp of XIX—XX centuries. A review of the existing historiography on the problem is carried out, the main attention is paid to the emerging from the middle 1980s the traditions of studying the liberal intelligentsia in Russia and the peculiarities of the relationship between the “educated minority and the peasant world”, an analysis of the latest scientific literature is presented. Special attention is paid to the main research approaches to the study of the topic, microhistorical, positional and other approaches, the concept of “new local history” is highlighted and the need for their complex use is declared. The results of a comparative analysis of various groups of sources are presented: reminiscence and memoirs, periodicals, statistical materials, correspondence. The question is raised about the differences in the self-identification of the Russian nobility, as well as in the mutual representations of the two most important estates of post-reform Russia. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that, on the basis of new methodological approaches, several images of relations between the nobility and the peasantry have been identified at the cusp of XIX—XX centuries: the image of the “new entrepreneurial type”, “guardianship” and “preservation of traditions”, conventionally “lordly”, as well as the image of “free action”; their distinctive characteristics are given. The proposed classification is due to the main ideas of the Russian nobility about the peasants in the context of the institutionalization of liberal ideology.

ANALYSIS OF THE INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL OF A COMMUNICATION ENTERPRISE IN THE SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING ITS COMPETITIVENESS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateryna Statirova ◽  
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Volodymyr Granaturov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Innovative Potential ◽  
Enterprise Competitiveness ◽  
Effective Use

The object of the research is the process of determining the level of enterprise competitiveness. It is shown that the existing methods for assessing the level of enterprise competitiveness use different criteria. It has been determined that among these methods the most suitable in modern conditions is the method based on the use of indicators of its competitive potential as criteria for the competitiveness of an enterprise. The main attention is paid to the possibility of using innovative potential as one of the criteria of competitiveness. The paper considered approaches to determining the composition of indicators, with the help of which the level of innovative potential of a communications enterprise, its assessment, and its application in the process of a generalized assessment of the level of enterprise competitiveness are determined. In the course of the research, the following scientific methods were used, such as a methodological analysis of scientific literature, a comparative, abstract-logical and systemic method. The analysis of existing approaches to assessing the innovative potential of an enterprise has shown that this problem remains unsolved. The reason for the uncertainty is, first of all, the fact that scientists put different meanings into this concept, distinguish different components of the innovative potential. As a result of the study, three requirements were stated - the minimum number of indicators, the availability of information and the avoidance of the influence of other potentials - which should become fundamental in identifying indicators for analyzing the innovative potential and using it in assessing the competitiveness of an enterprise. The studies performed will contribute to a more effective use of the method for assessing the competitiveness of an enterprise based on the use of its competitive potential, and to increase the efficiency of management decisions made on the basis of this assessment.

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