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Новый тип священника в повести Григория Недетовского (О. Забытого) Велено Приискивать

Author(s): Marta Łukaszewicz / Language(s): Russian Issue: 118/2007

Reforms which took place in Russia in the sixties of 19th century had a serious impact on Orthodox clergy. It resulted in „a new type of clergyman” appearing. A tendency to be more secular and liberal in the outlook and appearance was distinctive for this type of clergyman. The article treats of one of the first literary work where the main hero is one of „the new clergymen”. The most important problem is the way of introducing new social phenomena to the literature, using tricks and techniques common for the Natural School.

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ИКОНА, ИКОНИЧКА СЛИКА И НОВОЗАВЕТНИ ОРНАМЕНТИ У ПРИПОВЕТКАМА ЛАЗЕ ЛАЗАРЕВИЋА

Author(s): Olivera Radulović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2014

The research shows how the effective scenes with Orthodox ornaments are built in Lazarević’s stories in the form of iconic scenery. It focuses on the role of Orthodox icons in the texts, which serve not only to emphasize the moral of the story, but also for effective characterisation (for example, Marica in “Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje” and the priest in “Školska ikona“), to intensify the phychological state of the characters and show the evangelical archetype. Such depictions, built upon the sentences, paraboles and scenes from the New Testament, are revealed in the subtext of Lazarević’s stories.

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ПАРАКЛИС СВЕТОМ САВИ У ПРЕПИСУ ИЗ 1689–1690. ГОДИНЕ

Author(s): Tomislav Jovanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2013

Параклис као посебна врста прекомпоновања постојеће бо- гослужбене поезије за сада je у словенском свету потврђен само у српској рукописној пракси. Тек пре четрдесетак година почела су проучавања Параклиса Светом Симеону u Светом Сави и трају све до данас. Откривени су нове варијанте и преписи, чему су по- свећене посебне студије. Најновије сазнање говори да постоји још један параклис, овог пута посвећен Светом Сави. Преписао raje вероватно писар Исидор на Светој Гори Атонској 1689-1690. године. Сада се налази у рукописној збирци Патријаршијске библиотеке у Београду под бројем 233. Он je настао прилагођавањем првог ка- нона Теодосијеве Службе Светом Сави.

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Спрэчныя пытанні з гісторыі Берасцейскай уніі

Author(s): Leonid Tymoshenko / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 22-23/2015

The article discusses a number of important problems of studying the Union of Brest of 1596. It attempts to separate the scientific and socio-political problems of understanding of the event, and mentions the main directions and achievements in the study of the sources, motivations and reactions to the project of unification of the Catholic and the Orthodox Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The author presents the most controversial and debatable issues.

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Książka w kulturze Greków w Rzeczypospolitej w XVI–XIX wieku. Rekonesans

Author(s): Marcin Mikołajczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The aim of this article is gathering and signalization of information related to the theme of book among Greeks living in Commonwealth. The activity of Greeks in Ostrog Academy and Lviv Fraternity were presented based on literature and archival materials. The orthodox church libraries and private collections of representatives of the Greek nation were discussed as well.

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Заметки о хронологии и порядке работы над Софийским комплектом Великих Миней Четьих

Author(s): Evgenij Alexandrovitch Lyakhovitskiy,Mikhail Alexeevich Shibaev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 24/2015

This article contains some preliminary ideas of the time working on the the Sophian set of the Great Menaion Reader. Traditionally, about the time work on the the Sophian set of the Great Menaion Reader judged by a set of supplementary notes. However, their chronological instructions contain a number of contradictions, which, together with some features of the donation records pave the way for the assumption that donation records could be written in hindsight, later in 1541. The literature is widely believed to work on a long-term for 12 years from 1529 on 1541, which is based on combining information from supplementary records Sophia volume set, with records of the Assumption set. However, for this kind of association is not sufficient reason. Codicological study of the Sophian set shows that the operation was a complex and multistage. Materials of the Sophian sets can be divided into two different periods codicological formation. The first layer is a collection of voluminous Lives. There is some reason to believe that work on the reservoir was completed to 1532. The second layer to form a chronological supplement the original formation. We carried out not only simple addition of the initial formation and structuring of daily sections by inserting at the beginning of each section of the readings from the Prologue and at the end of this section — from Poetry Prolog. Some chronological indications in the text of the second layer (as codicological and textual), give grounds to say that as a simple addition and structuring (at least in August, the final volume) was still pending at the end of 1530’s.

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TEMEIURI BIBLICE NOUTESTAMENTARE CU PRIVIRE LA OFICIEREA SFINTELOR TAINE ȘI IERURGII BISERICEȘTI (VI) 3. POCĂINȚA (I)

Author(s): Ioan Bude / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2018

Addressing mostly priests and Religion teachers, but also any believer, the entire publicistic series that we commence at this point desires, in a straightforward, plain and clear manner (without proposing thematic biblical theology approaches, but by means of a rigurous selection of minimally commented texts), to bring forth again The Truth of the Holy Sacraments before the readers, whoever they might be or – why not? – lead the readers before The Truth, That „is the same for yesterday, today and forever” (Jews 13, 8): The Lord and Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, present, alive and active in all undertakings of His Church.

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CRUCIADA A PATRA ȘI DETURNAREA SENSULUI EI

Author(s): Ion Alexandru Mizgan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2018

The young Giovanni Lotario, future Pope Innocent III, was born in Anagni in 1160. He was promoted to the rank of cardinal by Pope Clement III, his uncle. In 1198 he was elected pope, being animated by the desire to impose over the whole Christendom the suzerainty of the city of Rome. He preached the Fourth Crusade with a lot of enthusiasm and when the Constantinople has been conquered and plundered by the Western cavaliers in 1204, he imposed the supremacy of the Church of Rome in the capital of the Byzantine Empire. He took hold of the reorganization of the Byzantine Church under the authority of the bishops that depended of Rome. Following the Fourth Crusade, Pope Innocent III began the policy of forced submission of the Eastern Church.

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O MĂNĂSTIRE HUNEDOREANĂ UITATĂ: PLOSCA

Author(s): Florin Dobrei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2018

In the south-west of Transylvania, on one of the deep valleys of Poiana Ruscăi Mountains, was founded, either at the initiative of Saint Nicodim of Tismana, the reorganizer of the Romanian monasticism, or – later – with the material support of the Romanian voivode Iancu of Hunedoara, an ancient monastery the Orthodox Church, whose religious destiny resembled, in detail, that of another monastic settlement in the area: Prislop. Important center of Orthodox resistance against attempts to attract the union with the Church of Rome in the mid-eighteenth century, it was burned by the Austrians in the summer of 1762; then abandoned by monks in the following decades, the memory was perpetuated not only by its cultural significance of the past, but also by the name of the present village of Ghelari, the Mănăstire (Monastery), founded in the vicinity, on the properties of the former monastic settlement.

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CONCEPTUL DE ÎNDUMNEZEIRE ÎN RĂSĂRITUL CREȘTIN ȘI IMPLICIT, ÎN CONTEXTUL FILOCALIC

Author(s): Nectarie Arvai / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2018

The purpose of man is to get from what God sown in him to likeness with God, a process called sanctification or deification. This is accomplished through asceticism which reveals man’s free will to be like God, as well as God’s gift that is through the work of the grace of the Holy Spirit. In this process there are certain stages that man goes through according to his uniqueness.

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PREDICĂ LA DUMINICA SFINȚILOR ROMÂNI (A-II-A DUPĂ RUSALII)

Author(s): Ionel Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2018

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus chooses His disciples and calls the four fishermen to mission: Peter and Andrew, sons of Iona, and James and John, sons of Zebedee. Secondly, we see that all those called answere His call right away, because Jesus is God the Word and Source of eternal life. Thirdly, we see that Jesus preaches the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven and also heals all the diseases and feebleness of the people. Fourthly, we understand that the fruits of preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven in the Romanian territory, starting with Saint Andrew the Apostle, the First called to mission, Protector of Romania, were shown in the multitude of Romanian Saints whom we celebrate on the second Sunday after the Pentecost. The Romanian Saints we commemorate today are those who preached the Gospel of Christ in the territory of our country, beginning with Saint Andrew the Apostle, the first called to discipleship, whom today’s Gospel text reads of. Christianity spread to the forerunners of the Romanians based on the preaching of Saint Andrew the Apostle and of his disciples in the South East of our country, today’s Dobrudgea, so that the Romanian people were formed slowly but profoundly. The Romanian people were not Christianized in a certain year, by order of the ruler prince, king or emperor, as in the case of some neighbouring peoples. Romanians’ Christianisation was done from bottom to top, beginning with the ordinary people and Christian soldiers of the Roman legions who came to Dacia, and then through the work of some Christian missionaries, especially Eastern ones who could speak Greek and Latin.

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CATEHEZĂ LA CÂNTAREA CÂNTĂRILOR

Author(s): Răzvan Draga / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2018

God is the ocean of love overflowing the entire creation with such love. In turn, the creation responds to the Builder in its own way. We see that a star proclaims the birth of the Lord of the world: and, when the Savior was lying on the cross, the sun hid upon seeing the Builder of all, spied; moreover, the earth, being frightened of such thing, quaked and untied the dead from its womb. Even the soulless elements of the cosmos respond to the love of the Creator in their own specific way. Man, the crown of the creation, is destined by God to be His partner, he is named the master of all that is built.

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REVISTA „ BISERICA ȘI ȘCOALA” – PREZENȚĂ CONSTANTĂ ȘI DINAMICĂ ÎN PUBLICISTICA DIN MITROPOLIA BANATULUI

Author(s): Marius Florescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04-06/2018

Into the year 2017, the „Biserica şi Şcoala”, official’s review of the Arad Archbishopric, is on 140th anniversary since its foundation. At this moment, all the Church media from the Metropolitan See of Banat, has to be together in celebration. The following topic tries, on the one hand, to show the importance of this review for the Church media of this part of the Romanian Patriarchate, and, on the other hand, to stress the bounds between the official reviews of all the dioceses from the Metropolitan See of Banat.

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Појам вере (πιστις) у „Првој посланици Коринћанима” Св. Климента Римског

Author(s): Zdravko Jovanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 166/2018

The First Epistle to the Corinthians of St Clement of Rome is one of the most ancient patristic documents from the body of texts of Christian literature. It reflects diversified theological and cultural issues from the turbulent transitional period, from the apostolic to the post-apostolic era of the primitive Christianity. What triggered the writing of the epistle was the unrest and upheaval in the Corinthian community of Christians caused by the illegitimate deposal of some of the local presbyters. In the epis tle, the subject of respect for the ecclesial structures and the hierarchical order is directly connected to the notion of the authentic faith. In this context, the present paper offers a presentation of an early Christian attitude of connecting the faith (πίστις) with a distinct ethos which the author of the Epistle illustrates by means of exegesis of paradigmatic Old and New Testament texts. The resolution of conflict, which is Clement’s primary goal, is reconstructed by means of examining his mode of combining the faith with works or with practical manifestation which implies sociological and not merely individual and intro spective connotations. A faith put in practice should unequivocally be manifested by the strive for concord and peace, by a practice of humility, gentleness, hospitality, obedience, and other virtues which build cohesion, instead of destruction, in the community of Christians. A contribution of the present paper is to be found mainly in the analysis of Clements’s theological interpretation of tension between faith and works which was prominent in the earliest New Testament and Patristic writings, but also in the contem porary theological thought as well.

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Mártír vagy kalandor? Brankovics Száva és az erdélyi román reformáció I. Apafi Mihály idejében

Author(s): Levente Nagy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2017

The paper explores the relationship of Sava Branković, Romanian bishop of Transylvania (died in 1683) to the Reformation. Through the examination of the episcopal career of Branković, the author aims to demonstrate that central authority in Transylvania did not compel the Romanians to adopt the Reformed faith. Despite the fact that Greek Orthodoxy was not regarded as a recepta religio in Transylvania, no trace of religious persecution was be found. What was launched against Branković was not a show trial; the accusations that led to his deposition from the episcopal office in 1680 were real ones.

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Хипотактичке структуре за исказивање темпоралних односа у делу стефанит и ихнилат: филолошка и функционалностилска анализа

Author(s): Vesna Bajić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 48/2017

This paper deals with hypotactic structures expressing temporal relations in the domain of both temporal identification and temporal quantification in the parable-like narrative Stefanit i Ihnilat, which forms part of Serbian Church Slavonic translated literature corpus. The research has been conducted on the text that represents the youngest transcript of this literary work, which stems from the 17th century. The immediate subject of the research are nominal and verbal strategies in the functional-semantic domain of temporality. The research determines the distribution and the ratio of participles in the function of gerund, as the strategy that has a foothold in the Old Serbian system, of the dative absolute, as a bookish category, and of temporal clauses, introduced with conjunctions of bookish or vernacular origin. Besides, this research investigates the deviation from the Serbian Church Slavonic norm in the usage of nominal strategies, which is influenced by the vernacular, as well as the way of expressing semantic relations within a complex sentence, which can be of low stylistic value in the profane literary works, influenced by the spoken language. Investigation of all these aspects has been conducted with the aim to correctly define the functional style of the analyzed narrative. The results of the syntactic and semantic analysis have been expressed quantitatively and the incidence of competing syntactic strategies has been given in relation to one another. The results obtained in this research have been compared to the findings obtained in the analysis of other Serbian Church Slavonic literary works with the aim to determine more precisely the character of language and style of the analyzed narrative. Although the syntactic norm of Serbian Church Slavonic which appears in the liter ary works of sacral character is mostly well-known, the syntax of literary works which belong to the profane sphere has not been investigated enough yet; it is currently in the process of thorough analysis. Therefore the results of the research that has been conduct ed in this paper can be regarded as a modest contribution to understanding the Serbian Church Slavonic hypotaxis in the literary works of profane character.

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Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts?

Author(s): William J. Sullivan,Sarah Tsiang / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

The western and eastern branches of Christianity, broadly speaking Roman Catholicism (RC) and Eastern Orthodoxy (EO), have been formally separate for almost a millennium. Yet they share the fundamental dogmas laid down by the first ecumenical councils. History and politics are entwined in the disputes since the Great Schism of 1054, but even earlier there was controversy over basic dogmatic questions and other doctrinal matters. Some, like using leavened or unleavened bread for Consecration, are now considered “matters of custom,” not requiring argument. Other matters are said to block reunification. One of these is Purgatory, for which EO does not even have a term, making a direct comparison difficult. We begin our analysis with the RC teachings on Purgatory, its locus, characteristics, and functions, and provide a simple relational network that shows Purgatory in relation to the afterlife, in particular to Heaven and Hell. With EO we begin with the teachings about life after death and provide a first approximation of Heaven and Hell and their relation to Paradise and Hades, both in characteristics and functions. Again, a simple relational network is enlightening. A surface comparison between the two networks distinguishes between those beliefs about the afterlife that are shared between RC and EO and those parts which house differences. It is these differences that must be subject to careful semiotic analysis to discover whether they are etic and possibly serious but not grounds for mutual excommunication or emic and a true barrier to reunification. We leave the possibly lengthy semiotic analysis for a subsequent study.

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Opozycja „przeszłość – teraźniejszość” w wypowiedziach staroobrzędowców regionu suwalsko-augustowskiego

Author(s): Adam Jaskulski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The Russian Orthodox Old Believers who now live in the Suwałki–Augustów region are descendants of Russians who refused to adopt the mid-17th century church reforms as promoted by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov and implemented by Patriarch Nikon of Moscow. Old Believers in Poland are an example of ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic minority. They lived in homogeneous village communities and they managed to maintain their religion, traditions and language through ages. In the last period one can observe many modifications in Old Believers’ way of life, in their culture and traditions. Old Believers’ who live in the Suwałki–Augustów region often compare the present with the past and they tell about changes that have come about in their way of life, their worldview and their attitude to their own uniqueness. They characterize the past positively and describe the present negatively.

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From Mount Athos Stories: An Unusual “Union” between Hilandar and St Panteleimon in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Author(s): Aleksandar Fotić / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2018

In the 16th and 17th centuries St Panteleimon (Rossikon) was a very poor monastery, frequently deep in debt. That is why its administration turned to Hilandar, a much wealthier and, moreover, Slavic monastery for help. Their motive were the longstanding friendly relations between the two communities. It has long been known that in the course of those two centuries Hilandar and St Panteleimon formed some kind of association, while remaining independent. The lack of sources makes it very difficult to pin down the nature of that relationship. In 1550 the hegumen of Hilandar, Prohor, defined it as “union” without any further clarification. This paper presents and examines the information that can be gleaned from Ottoman documents. Rossikon and its monks, or some toponyms associated with Russian presence on Mount Athos, are mentioned in no more than fifteen odd Ottoman documents.

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Култ и иконографија Светог Григорија Ниског код Срба у средњем веку

Author(s): Anđela Gavrilović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2018

The following paper investigates the cult of St. Gregory of Nyssa in medieval Serbia (1168–1459) on the basis of hagiographical and iconographical sources. It reveals that the name of St. Gregory of Nyssa is regularly present in different hagiographical records: in preserved menologions for January, in full menologions, in prologues and other writings. The lives of St. Gregory from the analyzed prologues are rather extensive, spacing taking up half or a whole page, or even more. They especially emphasize the bishop of Nyssa as a great zealot of Orthodox Faith, its defender against heresy and participant of the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381. The last sentence of the lives usually describes the physical appearance of St. Gregory. Regarding St. Gregory’s portraits, they are present on frescoes in a great number of Serbian medieval churches. We distinguish between two main types in the portrayal of this bishop: the first one, dominant, representing him as a mature man, with apparent physical resemblance to his brother St. Basil the Great (Studenica monastery, 1208–1209; ill. 1; Sopoćani monastery, c. 1265; ill. 2, 3) and the second one, portraying him as an elder with white hair and beard falling over his chest (Mateič monastery, 1348–1353; ill. 4; Zemen monastery, c. 1360). The resemblance of two brothers, St. Basil and St. Gregory, can be noticed on the portraits in the Dečani monastery (ill. 5, 6). The present paper also discusses the liturgical texts written on the scrolls which St. Gregory usually holds in his hands.

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