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Christian mission in the Romania has been continuous, but has adapted to the realities of everyday life and to historical conditions, both local and national. However, the clergy and the believers engaged in serving the Church in Romania continued preaching the Gospel and strengthening the faith and unity of the nation, a necessary component for effective ministry.
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As a basic dimension of personality, self esteem is related to the relation that each human subject has with himself, the confidence in one’s own ability to think and act independently, autonomously, to take decisions in order to reach goals, to assert one’s needs,aspirations, to aspire to and fight for their accomplishment.
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Proper understanding of the priesthood sacramentality begins with carry on redemptive work of Jesus Christ in time and space by choosing the Apostles who in turn shared redeeming grace for those who believe in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Christ and the Holy Spirit cooperates in an inseparable way. This follows from the ordination prayer is made on the candidate for indicating that the Holy Spirit descending upon him, and making one chosen vessel of the body of the Church, extended in time and space for each member of this body Priesthood of Christ the salvific and sanctifying.
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This article deals with the ontological reality of Church, to the extent that it may be discovered, because the Church is not a simple perceived reality rationally defined, but it is rather a reality connected to inner mystical nature. The Church state is the state of accessing all progressive steps to God, the "flight" to life in communion with God, which remains in itself a paradoxical Union of opposites. The passage of man to God is whole and complete, it is not only a pass of the soul, it makes and the world rise up in God too. The goal is an endless involvement into the Divine infinity, the persistence of the human being, of the will and the work in this Union with God in Church in a "mutual pincer ' of the human with the divine through Christ in the Holy Spirit. In this regard, Church is spiritual in nature, her experience is one of Constantinople. That's why the reality of the Church can be experienced by all and everywhere, regardless of the place or the age where someone lived. The nature and the experience of the Church is a cosmic one.
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The notion of spirituality Orthodoxy acquires the meaning of life lived in communion with the Holy Trinity, who was discovered by Jesus Christ according to the teachings contained in the Gospel. The Orthodox spirituality can have the valence of transparency of the Christ for man and transparency of the man for Christ, achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church.The final target of the entire Orthodox spirituality is the perfection of the believer in Christ, achievable only through personal participation in His divine-human life, cleansing our passions and acquiring virtues. The means by which we can come to Christ living in us are asceticism, which concerns our personal efforts to acquire divine grace and mystique,which involves receiving divine grace given to us to live and to know the spiritual state of the union with God.
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This article presents the life and work of the most important landmarks spirituality in the history of Romanian monasticism: Saint John Cassian,Saint Nicodemus of Tismana, Basil of Poiana Marului, Saint Pious Paisie Velicikovski Calinic Cernicanul. By their monks, monasteries were centers of spiritual faith and spirituality. Through their personalities who have excelled in the area of culture,spirituality and holiness, monasteries have performed a spiritual role in the life of the Romanian people and that type of training was at the root of Romanian civilization.
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The current context of youth education promotes a model based solely on the transmission of information. One insists on the quantity and universality of the subjects and loses sight of the value of knowledge for life. Before this bareness of value and emotion, youth religious education has maintained since ancient times a catechetical model that integrates information with lifestyle. The initiated one is not conditional upon the information, according to the contemporary model, but the information contributes with other elements to the formation of personality in order to cultivate its characteristic dimensions
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Globalization, very complex phenomenon, involves overcoming the barriers between different states, which allowed the rapid transfer of capital, technology, information, and the "toxins" from one country to another. First, the technology formed the basis of rapid expansion of great ideas promoted by globalization. Undeniable progress in the field of technology and science has conferred to the man extraordinary powers that have been used most often to the detriment of his spiritual progress. We must not deny that science and technology have brought many benefits to human, and he could expand the knowledge horizon upon the world in which he lives, exploiting information acquired and share them with others. Science and technology must become for postmodern man ways of talk and communion between human and divinity, all to the praise of God and the perfection of the creature.
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The article studies the activity of the first higher educational theological institution on the territory of Ukraine – Kyiv Theological Academy training the staff for churches of Universal Orthodoxy. The main problem is the studying at the Academy of foreign students from the countries of Balkan Peninsula. These countries during the period of XIX-th early XX-th century took the road of national spiritual revival.
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In the article probed and analysed one of the known works of Meletiya Smotrickogo "Trenos". His role in forming of adequate appearance of orthodox church through the prism of attitude and attitude is marked that time. The special attention applies on a basic question round which a polemic – problem of unity of "Rus was with Rus" and as he can be decided in opinion of M. Smotrickogo.
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The article studies the activity of the first higher educational theological institution on the territory of Ukraine – Kyiv Theological Academy training the staff for churches of Universal Orthodoxy. The main problem is the studying at the Academy of foreign students from the countries of Balkan Peninsula. These countries during the period of XIX-th early XX-th century took the road of national spiritual revival.
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The article considers the fate of Orthodoxy in Volyn in the first half of the twentieth century. Mentioned a number of documents relating to freedom of conscience, who long ignored the ruling. Select the three main areas of influence of the Bolsheviks to the believing population through: destruction of material resources, the mass closure of churches, splitting activity and harassment of clergy. The attention to the repression of monks and monasteries.
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The article studies the activity of the first higher educational theological institution on the territory of Ukraine – Kyiv Theological Academy training the staff for churches of Universal Orthodoxy. The main problem is the studying at the Academy of foreign students from the countries of Balkan Peninsula. These countries during the period of XIX-th early XX-th century took the road of national spiritual revival.
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The article studies the activity of the first higher educational theological institution on the territory of Ukraine – Kyiv Theological Academy training the staff for churches of Universal Orthodoxy. The main problem is the studying at the Academy of foreign students from the countries of Balkan Peninsula. These countries during the period of XIX-th early XX-th century took the road of national spiritual revival.
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The problem of social-philosophical interpretation of fundamentalist paradigm of modern Orthodox theology in the context of the differences between fundamentalism, traditionalism and liberal theology in the plane of the social doctrine of the church are considered.
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The article is dedicated to the discussion of the problem concerning the phenomenon of sobornost’ in the Ukrainian spiritual tradition and the forms of its practical manifestations in the folk life. The author emphasizes the sense of unified concept of the concepts of adequate modern problems.
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The article studies the activity of the first higher educational theological institution on the territory of Ukraine – Kyiv Theological Academy training the staff for churches of Universal Orthodoxy. The main problem is the studying at the Academy of foreign students from the countries of Balkan Peninsula. These countries during the period of XIX-th early XX-th century took the road of national spiritual revival.
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The analysis of a place and a role of priests and shamans of the Baltic and FinnoUgric gods – magicians in a spiritual and public life of east Slavs of a pagan epoch is carried out.
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Russians, who are located east of Europe and had chance to expand the state borders to the east and the south, followed the road to becoming both Asian and European state and civilization instead of being totally Slavic and European state. Russians, who expand its mainland towards Caucasia, Siberia, Central Asia, approved the duty of being the representer of western civilizations’ values and took on a task of carrying civilization to Asia’s underdeveloped public. Moreover it claimed that it protected Europe from attacks of Asia’s barbarian public and it wasn’t satisfied with it and assumed the role of guardian of all Slavics and Orthodox Christians. The Russian policy of western expansion which started with Petro I, created a diversity of assumptions and evaluations by the Russian intellects and authors. Among Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy; especially Dostoyevsky crated attention with the works regarding the East-West discussions. While Dostoyevsky defended the idea of thinking the Russian nation as a part of western civilization, he also criticized the West for the prejudices towards Russia. The people who are seen as Asian or Tatar in western eyes are portrayed as the people who carried European civilization to Asia by Dostoyevsky. Makanin, just like Dostoyevsky, joined the East-West discussion as representative of Russian literature and also defended the western values. Makanin, who portrays as a nationalist like Dostoyevsky, approaches the Caucasian and Central Asian ethnical elements who come to Russia from ex-Soviet lands to work, with negative expressions and examples. He depicts easterners as those who are using the riches and sources of Russia for their own benefit and who tramples the Russian national pride.
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In Siluan’s Epistles, the motive of harlot resurrecting a dead child is of hagiographic origin. Siluan has taken this motif from the Life of St. Theodore, bishop of Edessa, and used it as a kind of instructive example and encouragement to his interlocutor, about whose spirituality he was undoubtedly taking care of. The motive of harlot, however, in Siluan’s Epistles builds on a series of reflections on the woman as weak, inferior creature, and this paper examines this issue in the context of the misogynist literary tradition that marked the Middle Ages. On the other hand, this motive is also analyzed related to the didactic and theological function that is realized in Siluan’s Epistles.
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