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Przestrzeń bloga – przestrzeń dramatu. Blogi księży jako świadectwo poszukiwania tożsamości

Author(s): Lech Giemza / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The Internet shows an increasing number of blogs written by priests and monks, which appears problematic. Priests frequently do not realize that a blog is a form of meeting, which is different from a meeting in church. An author of a blog ceases to be an authority figure when he employs a different kind of language – less formal than in church. Examples quoted in this article indicate that the blogging priests face problems with the changing way of communication.

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Grzechy, posty i bankiety a zdrowie fizyczne i duchowe siedemnastowiecznego sarmaty na podstawie tomów poetyckich Daniela Bratkowskiego (1697) i Hiacynta Przetockiego (1653)

Author(s): Teresa Banaś-Korniak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the article is to discuss the topic of physical and spiritual wellbeing as manifested in the works of two Baroque poets. Daniel Bratkowski, the author of the first volume, entitled „A World Partially Forgiven”, came from Volhynia and was a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Hiacynt Przetocki, in turn, the author of the volume entitled „A Fast‑day Dinner, or Trifle”, came from Greater Poland and was a Jesuit. In Bratkowski’s poetry, who focused particularly on spiritual wellbeing, his ruminations on the condition of a nobleman, his sins and his vices, were concentrated around social, political and eschatological matters. Hiacynt Przetocki, in turn, in his overview of various fast‑day dishes popular in his times, approaches the subject matter of the everyday life in a less serious manner, pointing to the beneficial properties of particular dishes and the harmfulness of others. Bratkowski, then, seems to be a greater malcontent and a more severe judge of his contemporaries than Przetocki. Nonetheless, both volumes constitute valuable sources of information regarding the mindsets, proclivities and sins of Polish nobility of the 17th century.

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Polski Roland, czyli o literackich kreacjach Stanisława Strusa

Author(s): Mariola Rokicka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The following article concerns literary texts commemorating the death of one of the most famous reavers of the Eastern Borderlands, who died in the battle of Rastawica in 1571. The author argues that, in his commemoration of Stanisław Strus, Jan Kochanowski, in his „Gravestone for Stanisław Strus”, praises his entire line, while „Song VI On Strus Who Died at Rastawica at the Hand of the Tatars in the Year of Our Lord 1571” by Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński constitutes an apotheosis of the heroic sacrifice of the knight, even though his death should not be regarded as a de facto suicide. Moreover, the article traces the parallels between the Polish hero and Roland of Old French chansons de geste.

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Раннохристиянски мъченици, от които, според житията, изтича "мляко вместо кръв"

Author(s): Eva Kovacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In the present study, there are 40 saints, whose lives describe that in their martyrdom death from the wounds of their bodies, and especially when their heads were cut off, milk was flowing instead of blood. Of the presented cases, 20 are women and 20 are men of different age. As described in the vitae, it is established that they lived between the 1-4 century, which coincided with the early Christian period, but there are also three exceptions of the martyrs of the 5th, 7th and 11th centuries. Regarding the localization of the described phenomenon, it was found that the saints originated from different geographic areas – in the East from Palestine and Tyre (present-day Lebanon), in North Africa - on the lands of today's Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, in various regions of Asia Minor, The Balkan Peninsula (particularly on the territory of today's Bulgaria and Greece) and West to Gaul (in particular Italy, France and Belgium). In general, the explanation given in the present study of the miracle of milk is that it is a sign of their holiness and their heavenly change already on the earth.

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Опыт реализации курса "Основы религиозной культуры и светской этики" в начальной школе России

Author(s): Svetlana Kotova,Liudmila Savinova / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article is devoted to the description of the history of the working-out and introduction of the course " Religion or Ethics" in Russian primary education. The main ideas of the course, the first results of teaching, the difficulties of its implementation and prospects for further development are presented.

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Архангелският култ в стенописите на храм-паметника "Св. Александър Невски" - традиции и нововъведения

Author(s): Totka Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

In the pictorial language of the church fresco there are many changes in the various historical periods. The changes in the conceptual content and in the iconographic program of the late 19th and early 20th century show a change in the attitude towards ecclesiastical art. In essence, this involves the extending of range of the themes and stories that are no longer so closely bound up with liturgical action. In the multiple depictions of angels and archangels, an attempt can be found for compensating the stray of art from its main purpose. Most of the portrayed archangels images are representatives of the modern compositions of those times brought by the Russian artists who worked in the monument temple.

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Някои убеждения, свързани с пространството и облика на православния (съвременен) храм като резултат от теоретичен и образователен пропуск

Author(s): Lenko Grigorov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article focuses on some widespread assumptions about the historical development and contemporary state of the orthodox church architecture regarding the types of churches according to the space of the naos, as well as the hierarchy of the individual elements and characteristics that the temple contains.

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Иконата в религиозното образование: традиции и съвременност

Author(s): Tatyana Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The Orthodox Icon is an indivisible part of Orthodoxy today. Already in ancient times, it appeared in Christianity to show „what the Church believes“. As well as the icons are/were mediators of the prayers of the believers they were also used as a visual catechism – to clarify the Christian faith, to educate Christian values, to reveal the path to salvation. Today, in the multicultural and multireligious Europe, the icon is a symbol of the Orthodoxy and its defender. The holy images are an antipod of the dissipating effect of the mass media. In religion classes, the icon affects both the rational level by the narrative and the clarification, as well as the spiritual level. Through its symbolic language, schema and specificity, the icon helps prayer rise to the eternal and the celestial, becomes the meeting place between the material and the spiritual.

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Конкурсите за рисунка на християнска тематика в помощ на православното религиозно възпитание

Author(s): Nikolinka Klimukova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Today we are looking for new means of joining the Christian faith. Contests for painting Christian themes are the occasion for children, parents and teachers to go to the church. Children like painting and participating in events of competitive and creative character. Contests are the occasion to get acquainted with eastern Orthodox feasts, children, their parents and teachers, and a way of catehisation. To meet the conditions for participation, they read literature, follow models of Christian art, visit the church. Award ceremonies, exhibitions and celebrations take place in the church and in the educational centers. Consequently, Christianity Drawing Contests are in favor of Orthodox religious upbringing.

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Значението на Петър Динев за обучението по църковна музика в България

Author(s): Julian Kujumdzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This paper is dedicated to Petar Dinev's contribution to church music education in Bulgaria. Raised in traditions and Eastern singing, and Western European music, Dinev strives to achieve a synthesis between these two traditions both in his liturgical works and in his pedagogical work. This idea Dinev develops in his pedagogical activity and in his tools the beginning of the introduction of the Bulgarian church music in the academic practice and its establishment in a separate scientific and educational field in the Bulgarian musicology.

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Christians in North Syria: Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians, and Kurdish converts

Author(s): Thomas Schmidinger / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In Efrîn and North and East Syria, Christians of different ethnicities have had a home next to Muslim, Yazidi, and Alevi Kurds. Especially the Jazira region (Kurdish: Cizîre) has one of Syria’s largest Christian minorities. The attacks by jihadists and the Turkish army threaten these Christians. Before the war, more than 200,000 Christians lived in the region. However, that number might have dropped to less than 100,000 people, because many Christians became victims of attacks by the so-called Islamic state (IS) in 2014and 2015 and by the Turkish-led invasion of October 2019. Others fled to Europe in the years of civil war.

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Visual Cherubikon

Author(s): Matthew J. Milliner / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Mary’s priesthood is a prominent theme in Byzantine art, and this paper argues that it abounds at the Virgin of the Vetches church (Panagia tou Arakos) at Lagoudera in Cyprus, especially because of extensive depictions of the apocrypha. Through subtle interpretations of the Protevangelium and Dormition narratives, the twelfth-century artist Theodore Apsevdis highlighted priestly aspects of the beginning, middle and end of Mary’s life, aspects unified through a visualization of the Prayer of the Cherubic Hymn (Cherubikon) which is said by priests to commence the Eucharistic portion of the liturgy.

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Apocryphal Iconography in the Byzantine Churches of Cappadocia

Author(s): Manuela Studer-Karlen / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

By the early eighth century, the Protevangelium of James had achieved full acceptance in the Byzantine liturgical and theological traditions because it was used as an inspiration for liturgical hymns and sermons. The liturgical use of the Protevangelium correlates with the growing interest in the cult of Mary. In Cappadocia, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the permanent use of apocryphal sources can be observed, notably for the scenes of the Infancy of Christ as well as episodes featuring the Virgin. This phenomenon is unique to Cappadocia. Taking into account that Cappadocia is unparalleled in the Byzantine world for its wealth of surviving monuments with paintings that survive to this period, this region offers a great local case study for evidence of apocryphal source material.

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The Impact of Apocryphal Sources on the Annunciation in Medieval Art

Author(s): Marilyn Gasparini / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Virgin Mary was an essential medieval figure, and depictions of her are ubiquitous in art. Because she is mentioned only briefly in the Bible, apocryphal sources generate many of the details of her life. This paper presents apocryphal and other non-canonical sources as significant contributors to the depiction and interpretation of the Annunciation in medieval art. It focuses on how certain elements and concepts drawn from non-canonical writings converge so that the image of the Annunciation is seen as an interactive image.

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Pseudepigrapha and Last Judgment Iconography

Author(s): Daria Coșcodan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Erected in 1453-1456 and situated in Northern Bukovina (today in Ukraine), the Church of Ascension in Luzhany represents the oldest extant witness of medieval Moldavian monumental art. The scenes depicting the “death of the righteous” and the “death of the sinner” from its Last Judgment cycle are analysed here according to their literary sources, which include Old Testament pseudepigrapha and medieval hagiographic literature. Based on the implications from these extra-biblical sources, it is argued that the eschatological focus of these two scenes is reinforced by the sensorial experience associated with the moment of death.

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Apocryphal Sources and Their Importance in the Italian Iconography of Saint James the Greater

Author(s): Andrea D’Apruzzo / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

As one of the most important apostles, St. James the Greater and iconography depicting him has shown exceptional diversity, mostly due to influence from apocryphal sources. A thorough analysis of these sources (from second to fifteenth centuries) and the way they have been translated into visual representations in Italy shows how much apocryphal sources contributed to the genesis and the development the complex characterization of St. James the Greater. This evolution demonstrates the extent into which apocryphal sources contributed to spreading his iconography throughout Europe.

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Apostolorum Gloriosissimus Princeps

Author(s): Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Owing to the fame of Masaccio’s depiction of the “St. Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow” in the Florentine Brancacci chapel, its forerunners in San Piero a Grado and Assisi were barely considered for their own sake. Consequently, important implications have been overlooked. By focusing on iconographical details and the respective local contexts, the current study proposes that both the San Piero and the Assisi examples are dependent on apocryphal writings, mediated via the Golden Legend. Furthermore, the results suggest a locally specific double function, a dualism which consists in the fact that each not only to propagates the Petrine primacy, but is also intended to attract pilgrims in San Piero, or to serve as a church- and order political statement in Assisi.

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Superstitions in a Sermon of Stanisław of Skarbimierz (ca. 1360-1431)

Author(s): Ewelina Kaczor / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Stanisław’s of Skarbimierz’ sermon no. 47 from his collection Sermones sapientiales provides one of the most detailed records of superstitions in a Polish sermon. Moreover, to a large degree, such a record is independent of material contained in earlier sources concerning the same topic. This suggests that the sermon was an instrument for correcting the beliefs and practices of a living congregation into which the preacher had insight and was versed in its folk beliefs and practices. The aim of this chapter is to study the accounts of these superstitions and to examine the preacher’s attitude toward it.

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L’inconscient théologique de la traduction – ironie ou honnêteté d’un traducteur investi?

Author(s): Paula Ilaş / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Our article aims at presenting a few reflections on translating religious texts, more precisely texts of orthodox spirituality, giving some concrete examples of translation and retranslation, from French into Romanian, of a book written by Father Placide Deseille. Despite the secularization of contemporary society, religious translations are constantly increasing, which may contribute to a better understanding of the divine message and to a reconfiguration of the relationship between man and God.

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Carol Cortobius Architecture

Author(s): Maria Boștenaru Dan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Carol Cortobius was an architect trained in Germany, with an initial practice at Otto Wagner in Vienna, who worked for the Hungarian community in Bucharest building churches. An introduction on the catholic Hungarian community in Bucharest will be given. Dănuț Doboș in a monograph of one catholic church in Bucharest offers an overview of all his works. For the three catholic churches on which he intervened (two built, one restored, but altered now) there are monographs showing archive images not available for the general public. Apart of the catholic churches (two of the Hungarian community) he also built the baptist seminar. Particularly the first built church, Saint Elena, is interesting as an early example of Art Deco and will be analysed in the context of the Secession in Vienna and Budapest, which will be introduced. With help of historic maps the places of the works were identified. Many of them do not exist today anymore because of demolitions either to build new streets or those of the Ceaușescu period (ex. the opereta theatre, a former pharmacy). Images of these were looked for in groups dedicated to he disappeared Uranus neighbourhood The paper will show where these were located. Some of the common buildings have an interesting history, such as the first chocolate factory. Another interesting early Art deco building is the pelican house. There are common details between this and the restored church. The research will be continued with archive research in public archives when the sanitary situation will permit.

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