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Costly People’s Salvation Cathedral is the tallest Orthodox cathedral in the world.
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Pluralistic theology of religions seeks to assert itself as a new paradigm that has to overcome dogmatic and worldview differences among world religions and thus enable pluralistic unity whose main thesis is that all religions are equally valid paths of salvation. Many representatives of the pluralistic theology of religions refer to Paul Tillich as the proclaimer of pluralist paradigm relying on his last book “Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions”. This paper provides an overview of Tillich theology of religions as it is represented in the “Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions”, and examines how it is substantially and meaningfully different from the previous Tillich’s work, as well as whether Paul Tillich can be regarded as emissary of the pluralistic theology of religion.
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The article is devoted to the textology of the Introductions to the Gospels by St. Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria, in early printed Cyrillic tetraevangelions from Lviv. Th ese four short texts that precede every Gospel book have been analyzed from a textological point of view. It has been proven that all tetraevangelions from Lviv have undergone some editing, in particular in the Gospels published by Michal Slozka. All textological variants that are characteristic to the tetras from Lviv have been enumerated.
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The author of this article presents issues connected with the collection, compilation of and use of sources for the history of the so-called Warsaw Bible, published for the first time by the British and Foreign Biblical Society in 1975. Up until now, nobody had attempted to compile the history of the translation of the Bible. Nobody had tried to collect and develop sources for its history, either. Th e author discusses, in turn, the issues connected with Warsaw Bible editions, archival documents concerning its history, interviews with living witnesses to the events, reviews and scientific publications referring to this very Bible. He then presents the methodology of work with these sources. The aim of this article is to kindle a flame of interest among theological circles in Poland in research on the history ofthe Warsaw Bible, which will celebrate its Golden Jubilee in 2025.
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The article deals with the fate of Fr. Protopriest Lt Col Szymon Fedoronko, who was was an Orthodox military chaplain in the reborn Polish Army. Th e priest has gone down in the history of the Orthodox Church and the armed forces of the Second Republic. Based on archival sources, the Author discusses the successive stages of his pastoral ministry in the army beginning with the head of the military chaplaincy in Przemysl and Lublin through the Orthodox chief chaplain in the Polish Army to his martyrdom in Soviet imprisonment. His life’s path as a soldier and priest is presented against the background of the political events that were taking place in the country at the time. The author shows, among other things, the most important problems the chaplain had to face working in an ethnically and religiously mixed area.
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The subject under consideration in this article is the analysis of worship in Free Churches of the Protestant tradition. In the first part the author explains the relationship in terminology between the service of God and liturgy by referring to the early Church and the Biblical heritage that connects all Christian traditions. In the following parts the author attempts to define the essence of Sunday worship in Free Churches, focusing on dominant characteristics and main rituals. Th e author points out that one of the distinguishing features of the service is “planned spontaneity”, which defines the relationships between the components of a regular service and its unpredictability. Th e structure of worship which consists of Scripture reading, prayer and reflection on the Word of God has not changed since the 17th century, although spiritual dynamism allows for spontaneity that is always held in check by divine ordinance. In addition, worship is characterized, above all, by Biblicism, the lack of rigid liturgical formulas, spontaneousfree prayer and the active participation of the faithful.
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The subject of this paper is the western Church which was affected by a serious crisis of faith among believers in the 20th and 21st centuries. In closing the session of the Special Synod of Bishops, Pope Benedict XVI clearly emphasized the need for new evangelization to be at the forefront of the Church’s plans. Th e urgent need for new evangelization in the Middle East was also summoned. The topic is well known, in particular in countries with an established Christian tradition. Th e recent establishment of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization also attempts to answer this deep need. Therefore, after taking advice from Bishops from around the world and consultation with the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, the Council decided to devote the General Assembly in 2012 to the following topic: Th e New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith. Th e introduction of the New Evangelization aims at the return to faith of Christians and the return of the faithful to Church.
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The article depicts, firstly, several theories illustrating the influence of John Calvin on contemporary society, then focuses on the strictly theological legacy of his teaching. Six levels of visible influence are then enumerated. These in turn are connected to the development of the capitalist economy, ethics of work, democratic processes in politics, Puritanism, reformed orthodoxy and neo-orthodoxy as well as to liberation theology.
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The author discusses anthropological and religious postulations of the rites of passage, routinization of charismatic religiousness, so-called shamanistic or priest like relation towards the sacred and the religion as a means of defining socially establishable structures and values based on his research of Neo Catechumen(al) Way, a religious movement established in 1964 in Spain. The paper shows that the Neo Catechumen(al) Way can be interpreted as a rite of passage lasting several years, whose aim is to establish a new, sacral identity of its followers. The main means of this re-identification is ritual life in whose basis there are many smaller rites of passage. The process of routinization, that is, of structuring and formalizing the charismatic religiousness, has not skipped this religious phenomena, which is also illustrated as a means of social subsistence.
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Decorated bread and rolls from different villages of Kordun, from Cetingrad to Drežnik, have been shown at the presentation of the Kordun Christmas customs around Christmas in 2002 in Zagreb. Those pieces have been deposited in the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, where copies were made, using appropriate materials. Before the pieces were deposited, photographs of all of them have been taken for the photographic collection of the Croatian Cultural Society "Braće Radića" from Zagreb. Besides taking the photographs, the names of the bož'ćnjaci decorations, the way they were made and the role of the role decorated bread plays today have also been noted down. The author also emphasizes the role of female characters in national costumes, supposing that they represent the older variant of the costume from Kordun.
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There have been scarce research on national costume of Croatian Catholic population of the region of Kordun. There are no coherent academic, either ethnological or folkloristic, records on that particular part of the material culture of the Kordun heritage. Unfortunately, during the 1991-1995 war (or, it would be better to say, during several wars) much of this heritage has been irreversibly lost. Very few clothing items have been preserved by museum or private collections. Therefore, people's memories and very few old photographs are the only existing source of information, as well as the indicator of what the old Kordun costume used to look like and how to reconstruct it. This is the very reason for me to present the accessible sources, as well as the basic information on this costume in this article; they were the guidelines for my research. I am adding the information on the national costume of Rastoke from the book "Rastoke ‡ ‡ na slapovima Slunjčice" (Rastoke ‡ on the Slunjčica Falls) by Toma Žalac, cited in its entirety, to the list of references.
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The custom of the reception of polaznik, a person paying the first visit to a household, belongs to the body of customs connected with Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the majority of which has been structured as a recognizable whole encompassing about forty days of that period. However, certain elements located outside of the very “core” have been intertwining, mixing and complementing each other. Polaznik (and other derivatives of the term) abounds in examples of the ritual practice, which offer great opportunities for an analytical approach. Polaznik is most often a younger man, rarely a woman, characterized by pleasant physical and other features and qualities; in some places polaznik is also an animal (ox, sheep, cock). As a rule, this person is considered to be a messenger of happiness, abundance and progress for the visited family. The custom has been practiced by the majority of the Slavic peoples, although it has been irregularly regionally distributed, then among the Hungarians, certain Caucasian peoples and in China. It has been registered in certain variants in northern and eastern Tyrol, in Great Britain, earlier to a great extent, and even nowadays with some transformations. In analytical sense, the magic component of the ritual is certainly of great interest (the procedure with the yule-log and the hearth, various fruits and so on), as well as the interfusion of various cultural elements from the contents of the agrarian and cattle-raising calendar. The presence of manistic notions connected with the ancestor worship has been noted, as well as its zoomorphic and anthropomorphic origins, and certainly its characteristic of a rite of passage.
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The political and social turmoil, and the age in which the existing values are being questioned lead to the creation of some specific social phenomena. This paper shows the media context of the Rožman phenomenon, but also the individual testimonies of the members of this controversial movement, by comparing the social and the political situations in Croatia with the development of the Hare Krsna movement.
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