Проблематика захтева за аутокефалном црквом у Црној Гори

Author(s): Vladica Todorović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2016

The request for an independent church in Montenegro is primarily politically motivated. The regime and parties with similar political programme believe that the Montenegrin nation and state can not survive without the autocephalous church and will not consider Montenegro truly independent until the project is completed. On the other hand, the Serbian parties and the Serbian people in Montenegro consider the protection of the Serbian Orthodox Church, therefore the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral of utmost importance for the survival of their identity.

Света Тајна Евхаристије и њена свештена символика

Author(s): Jovan Purić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2016

Logos, as a Liturgical symbol, is the key in understanding the Liturgical symbolism. This article presents the relation between the realistic and the symbolical.

Српска Православна Црква и медији у Републици Србији

Author(s): Jovan Bukovala / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2015

In this paper chronologically is considered the position and representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, as part of the civil sector, on the line of traditional media – new media, and the viewpoint is that it extends along the whole line. Alongside of printed media, for the affirmation of Christian values Serbian Orthodox Church uses electronic media. The media have great significance for our culture and society and are therefore essential, and the programs of church media tend to the religious and moral education, as well as the revival of the nation.

Књижевно-богословска интерпретација романа Несвети а свети и друге приче

Author(s): Dejan Đuričić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2015

Book of Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov Unholy but Holy and Other Stories is the cry of orthodox spirituality in an amoral society of XXI century. It was created as the need to express a testimony of the existence of true faith in a sea of different beliefs, religious systems and ideologies, and to show the world that the true bearers and true religion has in every historical period. It is written in simple and accessible style, attracting and refining its expression. The book by father Tikhon is deeply imbued with the orthodox spirituality, and is not only considered to be the „Encyclopedia of Orthodoxy,” but also a guide to one orthodox and sacramental life. In this paper I will try to at least partially perceive novel using the literary as well as the theological point of view, although I know that it is not a simple task and that the „mission“ of the book is primarily found in the contact between „internal“ novelist characters and „outwardly” who live in our time, and are searching for a lost spirituality.

Богонадахнутост Давидових псалама у Доментијановој поетици

Author(s): Čedomir Rebić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2014

The writers of old Serbian literature were strongly influenced by Psalms of David. Filled with prayer to the Lord, the Psalms introduced the understanding of the mysteries of God and the life of the world. This paper reveals how Domentian in The Life of Saint Simeon sees the spiritual life in which the ultimate goal is the Kingdom of Heaven. The spirituality of Mount Athos, designed from quotations from the Psalms of David, introduces the understanding of the relationship between man and the Bible; and all life is seen eschatologicaly. By the Psalms Domentian perfected spiritual views and crafted poetic form, which in the creation of the old Serbian literature poetry must be taken as the key phenomenon. Biblical inspiration of Domentian’s narratives leads to the knowledge that every spiritual gift, enlightenment of the mind, the power of linguistic expressibility, comes from God, because „the Lord gives the word“ (Ps. 68, 11) to those who preach the word of God. In the author’s creative sieving is developed the spiritual portrait of an iconographic value. Under the vault of spiritual and aesthetic values arise general places where theological thoughts are directed toward eternal good, eternal truth, eternal beauty; life in Christ.

Личност – темељ обожења у учењу Старца Софронија (Сахарова)

Author(s): Savo Denda / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2013

The whole secret of theosis is built on the basis of the person– hypostasis. Hypostasis is the most inner principle of God. Hypostasis is perceived by looking face to face. The person cannot be perceived from the outside. God created us after His own image, so we too are persons. The person can only be revealed to a person. There are two approaches to the issue of cognition – one is personal and the other is individualistic. The individual approach is egoistic, the hypostatical- personal is manifested through the love of the Son of God Jesus Christ towards the person. The unrepeatable is in each person and not in the aggregate of individuals. Elder Sophrony discerns the principle of hypostasis, essence and energy in God. Man can only selfrealize himself if he conforms with God. That is the task given to man when he was created. A person- hypostasis carries in itself the entire being.

Зашто не једна Америчка Православна Црква?

Author(s): George Patsourakos / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2011

Феномен дијаспоре у контексту промена и повезаности различитих културних окружења

Author(s): Damjan S. Božić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2021

This paper intends to present the phenomenon of diaspora in the contemporary context. Orthodox emigration spread Orthodoxy around the world but did not significantly contribute to the Orthodox mission. Even after the third or fourth generation of emigrants, church services are generally held in the language of the countries from which the emigrants come. This applies to the United States and Canada, where the majority of Orthodox emigrants are from Greece, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Lebanon, and Romania. Although emigrants from the mentioned countries were already settled in the USA in the middle of the nineteenth century, Orthodox priests came only at the beginning of the twentieth century. Then began the construction of orthodox churches from Galveston, Texas to Jackson, California. Only in the late twentieth or early twentyfirst century, there is American Orthodox clergy whose mother tongue is English. Therefore, Orthodox Church parish communities were (and still are) ethnic enclaves, apathetic to — or even opposed to — the society, environment, and mission of the Church. There is a tendency for Orthodox Christianity to be understood as a part of ethnic culture, and as such, it cannot be shared with people from other ethnic groups. What are the experiences of our people in the diaspora in everyday life? What are the challenges in (not) adapting to the new culture? Is there an interaction with the envronment? What articulates harmonization with the new environment, with the new system, mental characteristics, diversity of cities, countries, geographical areas? These are the starting questions of this presentation. This paper is an attempt to analyze the Church’s mission, through parish life and social gatherings. This is an attempt to present the phenomenon of the diaspora in the context of changes and connections between different cultures and the environment.

КОН ПРАШАЊЕТО ЗА ВТОРАТА КЛИМЕНТОВА ЦРКВА ВО ОХРИД

Author(s): Ljubica Stankovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 1/2016

The author of the article, besed on relevant historic written sources, provide evidence that the location of the second church which was built by Clement from Ohrid, next to his monastery St. Pantelejmon shortly after the year 893 and which he dedicated to St. Mary Mother of God from Annunciation, afterward named as Holy Annunciation, was located on the flatland on the Plaosnik Hill. In the times of Clement, the role of the church Holy Annunciation was the religious service in this church to be held and preached on Slavic language which was Clement’s primary goal in achieving of organized re-sanctification and education of the people. Afterward, at the time of the Macedonian tsar Samuil, when the city of Ohrid, at the period around year 900 or 1000, became capitol of the Macedonian Samuil’s state, the church Holy Annunciation, the said old Clement’s church, became capitol of the Ohrid patriarchate, and when in year 1018 the byzantine emperor Vasilij II reduced it to archbishops, cathedral. After the revocation of Ohrid Archbishops in year 1767, the Ottoman authority tore down to the ground the archbishops church Holy Annunciation.

The Christian-Orthodox teaching about fasting in St. John Chrysostom’s work

Author(s): Vasile Miron / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Attempting to present the teaching of St. John Chrysostom about fasting, we must specify from the very beginning that this holy father does not ascribe the fasting a medical and culinary meaning, in the sense of diet change or variation of foods, but a spiritual meaning. In the spiritual sense, fasting is not a mere moral exercise of willpower and control of the physical passions and urges, but a freely accepted sacrifice out of love and respect to God. The man who loves God is happy to offer Him this sacrifice, which consists of renouncing food, drink and amusement, games, and, first and foremost sin. Such a believer does not darken his face but maintains his good mood, showing people the joy emerging from fasting, because naturally, anyone feels joy when he makes an act of charity and sacrifice for the person he loves, for God who is love (I John, IV, 16). And the sacrifice from love is discrete, it wants to remain unknown to others. This sacrifice for God is a fountain of indescribable gifts for each faster. Fasting is the abstinence of all urges, all senses, all physical impulses so that you can hear God, so you can feel God in your heart. This is fasting according to St. John Chrysostom: a process of purification of body and soul, so that God may dwell in our being. Fasting is the discipline that makes the life of Christ blossom within us.

Dintr-un Lemn Monastery – A Unique Monastic Complex in Romania. Historical Monograph

Author(s): Nicoleta Stanca / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

ЦРКОВНИТЕ ПРИЛИКИ ВО ПРОВИНЦИЈАТА МАКЕДОНИЈА НИЗ ПРИЗМАТА НА ПЕТТИОТ ВСЕЛЕНСКИ СОБОР

Author(s): Dragan Zajkovski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 1-2/2015

The sixth century, seen through the prism of Ecclesiastical history, was a period filled with debates of both theological and dogmatic nature. These debates later on developed into new religious divisions, which resulted in the convening of the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553. The convening of this Council was meant to put an end to these debate and to pave the way for establishment of Church unity. The background of these theological disputes were the political and religious conflicts between Rome and Constantinople. Church situation and ecclesiastical states in the province of Macedonia in sixth century, as well as the participation of the bishops of the Macedonian Provinces is the main subject of interest in this research.

НОВИ ПРИЛОЗИ ЗА ИСТОРИЈАТА И ЖИВОПИСОТ НА ЦРКВАТА БОГОРОДИЦА ПЕРИВЛЕПТА (СВ. КЛИМЕНТ) ВО ОХРИД

Author(s): Cvetan Grozdanov / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 1-2/2014

1. Identification and Chronology of the Wall Paintings at the Northern Entrance Considering that the frescoes at the Ohrid church Peribleptos (St. Clement) have not been studied sufficiently, the author of these contributions presents his views on the errors of the dating and identification of the individuals in the northern, western and southern parts of the church entrance. He indicates that the painting in the northern wing of the facade of the Chapel of St. Gregory the Theologian was not that of the Sebastokrator Volkašin; then, that there was never an archbishop in Deabolis and that Gregory of Deabolis should never be referred to as “Archbishop of Ohrid”. He highlights the fact that the inscription above the northern entrance actually refers to the Prooimion of the "Chosen Duchess”, pictorially transposed into the composition of the Siege of Constantinople, as was the case of St. Peter in Prespa, painted around the same time as the frescoes at Peribleptos. 2. The Heavenly Court on the Western Wall of Peribleptos In the western part of the entrance there is a large 16th-century depiction of the Last Judgment, but underneath there is still a layer of a 14th-century wall painting. Earlier researchers believed that the painting in this older layer is a depiction of the Last Judgment as well. However, on a large fragment at the southern end of the west entrance there is a figure from the older layer, which in our view depicts the Holy Warrior St. Theodore Stratelates. This very fragment, that is, the whole figure directed towards the center of the older layer, indicates that it portrayed the great scene of the Heavenly Court, depicted in the same place at the Zaum church as well. I pointed to this fact to Prof. Voja Đurić too. As soon as adequate conservation conditions are provided, we believe that the first layer underneath the current Last Judgment dating from the 16th century will be revealed. 3. Notes on the Wall Painting in the South Wing of the Church of the Holy Mother of God Peribleptos The frescoes in the southern wing of Peribleptos have been damaged most severely by whitewashing, as well as by the weather conditions typical for this side of the church. There are still no reliable data to whom the southern chapel next to the altar was dedicated since the space for the donor’s inscription is empty. Inside the chapel there are no remains from the figure of St. Nicholas, to whom it is believed that the chapel was dedicated. The author of this contribution assumes that one of the figures dressed in a nobleman’s vestments on the east end of the south wall facing in prayer towards the Holy Mother of God might have been Lord Nicholas, the eldest son of Sebastokrator Branko, i.e. the eldest brother of Grgur and Vuk. He is known to have been married to the sister of Volkašin and Uglješa, and to have become a monk (Radohna, Roman) after his wife’s death, spending the rest of his life on Mount Athos as the Megaloschemos Gerasimos.

Revisiting the Ontology of Russia’s Heartland Geopolitics in its Contemporaneity

Author(s): Ambrish Dhaka / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2020

The paper aims at assessing the long duree of Russian geopolitics from the perspective of the Heartland model as envisaged by Sir Mackinder. This was modeled in order to give an alarmist view about the locational supremacy of Russia over the Eurasian Heartland. But, the Heartland model has had many arguments that pointed to the approach long-seated before Mackinder could deploy them for the West. The paper looks at the conceptualization of Eurasianism or Russian geopolitical thought as an ontological praxis of Heartland thesis. The ethno-religious base of Slavism and Russian Orthodoxy made a complex compromise with the Asian peoples in order to strike multiple balances both in the European theatre and the Euro-Asian realm at large. The Heartland signified a perennial contest between western democracies and the Asiatic authoritarianism. Russia inherited this geo-cultural repository and worked with China giving rise to bigger Heartland discourse.

PASCHALIS KITROMILIDES AND THE WEAK FOUNDATIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE BALKANS

Author(s): Slobodan G. Marković / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2018

The author discusses the contribution of Prof. Kitromilides to the studies of nationalism in the Balkans provided in his book An Orthodox Commonwealth and in his work in general. Particular attention has been given to the way that Prof. Kitromilides has conceptualized the notions of Balkan identity, how he was able to identify the main characteristics of Romaic identity within the Orthodox community, and how he has deconstructed the narratives of Balkan historians imbued with the spirit of national romanticism.

POJAVE HRIŠĆANSKOG ETOSA U ZAKONICIMA SVETOG PETRA CETINJSKOG

Author(s): Andrija Sošić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3-4/2018

Sa­int Pe­ter Ce­tinj­ski was a re­li­gi­o­us, spi­ri­tual and tem­po­ral ru­ler of Monte­ne­gro in the to­ug­hest hi­sto­ri­cal pe­riod of the co­un­try. From the ear­li­est years of his li­fe he was com­mit­ted to spi­ri­tu­a­lity; At the age of 12, he jo­i­ned a Se­mi­nary, and at the age of 36 he be­ca­me a ru­ler of Mon­te­ne­gro, and stayed in­cum­bent for 46 years, un­til his de­ath in 1830. Lar­ge ma­te­rial po­verty, which ma­de the li­fe of the pe­o­ple dif­fi­cult, was even mo­re com­pli­ca­ted by the fight with the Turks, who con­ti­nu­o­usly at­tac­ked and de­so­la­ted the co­un­try. All of that in­flu­en­ced the spark of of­ten con­ten­tion in the pe­o­ple, which of­ten re­sul­ted in blood re­ven­ge. Wanting to end the law­les­sness, which con­stantly mul­ti­plied, Sa­int Pe­ter Ce­tinj­ski de­ci­ded to gi­ve the pe­o­ple a writ­ten law, to which all wo­uld abi­de to. That’s how two le­gal co­des ca­me to be, „Stega“ and „The general legal code of Montenegro and the hills“, which are com­ple­tely en­so­u­led by Chri­stian et­hos. „Ste­ga“ has only six ar­tic­les (cla­u­ses), and it plays a ro­le of a pro­gram dec­la­ra­tion, in which the fight aga­inst the Turks is set as a duty of the en­ti­rety of the pe­o­ple. The text alo­ne begins by cal­ling upon the na­me of Holy Tri­nity, and in the ar­tic­les it says, that the pe­o­ple will fight for rig­hte­o­us Chri­stian fa­ith, Fat­her­land, fre­e­dom, Mo­na­ste­ri­es and the­ir fa­mi­li­es. „The ge­ne­ral le­gal co­de of Mon­te­ne­gro and the hills“ has 33 ar­tic­les (cla­u­ses) and it al­so starts with the na­me of Holy Tri­nity. This le­gal code tran­scri­bes the de­ath sen­ten­ce for law­les­sness such as: mur­der, com­pli­city in a cri­me, blood re­ven­ge (ven­det­ta). Ne­vert­he­less, kno­wing that the Sa­int who wrote this co­de and who played the part of a jud­ge in the har­dest ca­ses, ne­ver ever sen­ten­ced so­me­o­ne to de­ath, so we can con­clu­de that hard sen­ten­ces li­ke these tran­scri­bed in the co­de ha­ve a pre­ven­ti­ve ro­le in the fight aga­inst the law­lessness. Co­de tran­scri­bes cer­tain sen­ten­ces for the Chur­ches wrong­do­ing, ha­ving in mind that the to­ugh si­tu­a­tion the co­un­try had its fa­ir sha­re of bad in­flu­en­ce on the spi­ri­tual sta­te of the Church. The one thing both co­des ha­ve in com­mon, is the fact that they both re­so­na­te with the de­e­pest Pa­stor-li­ke con­cern for the pe­o­ple and the lo­ve that the Sa­int had for his „flock“. The only and the most certain gu­a­ran­tee of the cor­rec­tness of the law, was Sa­ints li­fe of its aut­hor, Saint Pe­ter Ce­tinj­ski. Not only that he in­tro­du­ced the law and or­der to the co­un­try with his le­gal co­des and his li­fe of a Sa­int, but he al­so spi­ri­tu­ally re­vi­ved his peo­ple. Ha­ving that the both co­des of Sa­int Pe­ter Ce­tinj­ski are en­so­u­led with the Chri­stian va­lu­es that ha­ve ti­me­less va­lue, cer­ta­inly can be of big im­por­tan­ce for to­days le­gi­sla­tion, hel­ping in the for­ma­tion of the laws which wo­uld be use­ful for every so­ci­ety.

Deux Anthologies de chant du monastère de Putna: nouvelles découvertes dans les archives du Musée Historique d’Etat de Moscou

Author(s): Anna Eliseeva / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2020

L’auteur attire l’attention des chercheurs sur deux manuscrits trouvés dans les fonds du Département des Manuscrits du Musée Historique de Moscou, ayant un rapport direct avec la fameuse École de chant de Putna. Dans l’un de ces manuscrits, une Anthologie de chant de la collection E. V. Barsov 1345 (ГИМ. Барс. 1345) a été découverte une hymne composée par le célèbre chantre, mélurge, codicographe et maître des chantres Eustatios le Protopsalte du monastère de Putna «Ὅσοι εἰς Χριστὸν ἐβαπτίσθητε», connue d’après d’autres manuscrits écrits sur un champ libre du feuillet 77v à une époque plus tardive. Sur les ff. 62v et 63 ont été découvertes des précisions et des interpolations complémentaires dans l’hymne de communion «Εἰς μνημόσυνον» τοῦ Φωκᾶ, écrites de la même main. La seconde Anthologie de chant appartenant à la collection de chants Synodale 1109 (ГИМ. Син. Певч. 1109), est selon l’hypothèse de l’auteur la première partie de l’Anthologie PII (ms. 56/544/576 I, ff. 85r–160v). L’article présente les critères codicologiques et paléographiques confirmant cette hypothèse. Une inscription en cursive trouvée au début des deux codex indique qu’ils ont été catalogués et enregistrés lors de l’inventaire de 1843 des manuscrits et des livres de la bibliothèque du monastère de Putna; ce qui confirme l’appartenance des manuscrits étudiés à l’École de chant de Putna. La découverte et l’étude des mss. ГИМ. Барс. 1345 и ГИМ. Син. Певч. 1109, permet d’élargir le cercle des manuscrits de l’École de chant de Putna et de «réunir» les deux parties autrefois séparées d’un seul et même recueil Син. Певч. 1109 et ms. PII.

ПОСТСАБОРСКА РЕЦЕПЦИЈА ДОКУМЕНТА „МИСИЈА ПРАВОСЛАВНЕ ЦРКВЕ У САВРЕМЕНОМ СВЕТУ”

Author(s): Rade Kisić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 178/2021

In diesem Artikel wird das Dokument “Die Sendung der Orthodoxen Kirche in der Welt von heute” und seine Rezeption nach dem Heiligen und Großen Konzil der Orthodoxen Kirche analysiert. Da für das Verständnis der Bedeutung dieses Dokumentes seine Vorgeschichte sowie die Stellungnahmen der lokalen Orthodoxen Kirchen von besonderer Bedeutung sind, werden sie im ersten Teil dieses Beitrags kurz dargestellt. Nach der Annahme des Dokumentes durch das Konzil von Kreta, folgten zahlreiche Analysen und Reaktionen von denen in diesem Artikel nur diejenigen, die als repräsentativ gelten könnten, dargestellt werden. Unter Berücksichtigung der ökumenischen und interreligiösen Fragen wurde dem Dokument “Für das Leben der Welt. Auf dem Weg zu einem Sozialethos der Orthodoxen Kirche”, das als derzeit wichtigstes Beispiel der Rezeption des Dokuments “Die Sendung der Orthodoxen Kirche in der Welt von heute” gelten darf, besondere Beachtung geschenkt. Die komparative Analyse beider Texte hat gezeigt, dass das Dokument “Für das Leben der Welt” viele im früheren Dokument bestehende Themen neu aufgreift und weiterentwickelt. Da sich dieses Dokument als eine Vorlage für den zukünftigen Dialog versteht, ruft es zu einer weiteren und vertieften Rezeption des Konzils von Kreta auf.

„ПОНОС“ И ОДГОВОРНОСТ: ДРУШТВЕНА АНГАЖОВАНОСТ ПРАВОСЛАВНИХ ХРИШЋАНА У ВРЕМЕНИМА КРИЗЕ

Author(s): Miloš Jelić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 35/2021

The basic question of my paper is: Do modern Orthodox Christians see their place in active participation in social life, as a form of witnessing to the world of Christ who suffers with the infirm and the sick, which becomes especially important in circumstances such as the current Covid-19 pandemic? That is why I oppose a “proud” (with quotation marks, meaning: self-sufficient) Christian to a socially responsible Christian who understands his faith as a social praxis, not only as a cult-oriented activity.

THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX REFUGEES: ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE

Author(s): Anja Abramović / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2021

The study deals with the renewal of collapsed orthodox identity of refugees. Orthodox social support is a crucial aspect of overcoming trauma. Refugees are identified with religious officials of the Orthodox Church. Integration within religious community provides security, acceptance and release from fear. Using the analysis of narrative we try to look deeper into cultural shock, psychological trauma and spiritual transformation of refugees.