Le Testament d’Abraham et sa présence dans un convoy juridique et antihérétique (BAR Mss. sl. 636)

Author(s): Ivan Biliarsky / Language(s): French Issue: 1-2/2019

The article is devoted to an Old Testament apocryphon – the Testament of Abraham – and its presence, its importance and its functions in the convoy of predominantly juridical and polemical anti-heretical collection compiled in the Principality of Moldova in the 16th century. The second part of the article proposes an interpretation of the text and its importance mainly in the legal context of the copy (BAR, Ms. sl. 636). What can be the meaning and function of a deuterocanonical text in a predominantly juridical collection? The study of the manuscript itself leads us to the conclusion that the separate elements (legal, polemical, historical, dogmatic, apocryphal) that make up the collection are subject to its general purpose. As for the apocrypha, they can be said to present some biblical point of view. In particular, the Testament of Abraham illustrates the idea of justice and the relationship between human and Divine justice. Human justice serves earthly purposes, and always, even the most just one, implies the idea of punishment, while Divine justice is based on mercy and seeks the salvation of the human soul.

Благовеста Иванова. Българският архитектурен комплекс на Златния рог. София, Изд. „Парадигма“, 2018. 471 с.

Author(s): Yordan Zhelev / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2020

Book Review

PREZENTĂRI BIBLIOGRAFICE

Author(s): Maxim Moraru,Stelian Gombos,Cătălin Varga,Răzvan Fibișan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2020

Joannesa Molanusa recepcja trydenckiego dekretu o obrazach

Author(s): Dariusz Klejnowski-Różycki / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 20/2020

Przykłady łamania reguły zakonnej przez kanoników regularnych z Żagania w średniowieczu w świetle kroniki klasztornej

Author(s): Zbigniew Witczak / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2020

Życie wewnętrzne w średniowiecznych klasztorach nie zawsze przebiegało w zgodzie z przyjętymi zasadami, które z założenia powinny być przecież rygorystycznie przestrzegane. Dotyczyło to zarówno braci, ojców, wyższych funkcyjnych klasztornych, a nawet samych opatów. Kronika klasztoru kanoników regularnych w Żaganiu dostarcza nam wielu przykładów łamania reguły zakonnej. Nadużywanie alkoholu, zbyt częste kontakty z kobietami czy nieposłuszeństwo wobec przełożonych – to tylko niektóre z problemów, z którymi borykali się żagańscy kanonicy. Wydaje się, że w takim zabytku dziejopisarstwa średniowiecznego pokazywane powinny być raczej pozytywne przykłady, które miały zachęcać do cnotliwego postępowania, a nie negatywne czyny, a nawet zbrodnie. Okazuje się jednak, że prezentacja tego, co złe, miała charakter dydaktyczny. Pokazywała czytającym, jak nie należy postępować, czego unikać, aby nie ściągnąć na siebie i cały konwent nieszczęść, oskarżeń albo gniewu – czy to braci, czy przełożonego konwentu. Informacje o grzechach i występkach pełniły również funkcję kontrastującą, podkreślając, jak wprowadzone reformy życia wewnętrznego przez dobrych opatów wpływały na zmiany w sposobie postępowania i życia całego konwentu. Dzięki zaprezentowaniu pozytywnych i negatywnych przykładów te pierwsze widzimy jako jeszcze lepsze, jeszcze godniejsze naśladowania i zapamiętania.

Godność ludzka w kontekście poszanowania kultu przodków przedstawicieli różnych kultur

Author(s): Izabela Szerszeniewska / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2020

Godność ludzka ma uniwersalny, ponadkulturowy i ponadnarodowy charakter. Każdy człowiek od chwili narodzin aż do momentu śmierci powinien być traktowany z należytą godnością. Poszanowanie kultu przodków, stanowiące element ludzkiego życia w inherentny sposób wiąże się z godnością człowieka. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie znaczenia godności ludzkiej w kontekście poszanowania kultu przodków przedstawicieli różnych kultur.

W kleszczach koronawirusa

Author(s): Jerzy Grześkowiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

Krótka historia niemieckiej chadecji

Author(s): Tomasz Kycia / Language(s): Polish Issue: 682/2020

Niemiecka CDU – niegdyś partia środka – musi dziś zabiegać o masowo odchodzących wyborców. Alternatywa dla Niemiec podbiera chadekom wyborców konserwatywnych i prawicowych. Dorosłe już dzieci typowych wyborców CDU odnajdują zaś swoją polityczną reprezentację w rosnących w siłę Zielonych.

Радмила Радић, Војислав Јанић (1890–1944). Свештеник и политичар. Поглед кроз аналитички прозор

Author(s): Mirko Mlakar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2021

Review of: Mirko Mlakar - Радмила Радић, Војислав Јанић (1890–1944). Свештеник и политичар. Поглед кроз аналитички прозор (Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2018), 482 str. Mirko Mlakar - Радмила Радић, Мисија британске Хришћанске заједнице младих људи у Краљевини Југославији (Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2019), 375 str.

Из началната история на българската църква в Браила през ХІХ в.

Author(s): Nikolay Zhechev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The article tells about the early history of the Bulgarian church in the Romanian town of Braila in the third quarter of the 19th century. In this city at that time there was a large Bulgarian emigrant community, resettled there mainly after the Russo-Turkish war of 1828–1829. It was distinguished by its active economic and socio-cultural activities and in the 1860s turned the city into the cultural capital of the Bulgarian diaspora in Romania. There was a Bulgarian school there, Bulgarian newspapers were published, Bulgarian printing houses functioned; prominent Bulgarian writers, playwrights, publicists such as Dobri Voynikov, Vasil Drumev, Hristo Botev lived and worked in the city for some time… The Bulgarian Literary Society (predecessor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) was founded there (in 1869), a community center and other social and cultural organizations operated, and a fruitful theatrical activity developed. But even in the 1860s, the Bulgarian community still did not have its own church to worship in their native language. The article traces, on the basis of the currently available documentary and other sources, the preparation and implementation of the construction of the Bulgarian Church of the Ascension of Christ in Braila, carried out mainly in the years 1868–1875. This endeavor was guided by the elected church boards, which managed to mobilize for this purpose the spiritual potential and material resources of the Bulgarian community there. The funds for the construction of the temple were raised through voluntary donations and loans, in which representatives of all strata of the Bulgarian diaspora participated: rich merchants and bankers, as well as smaller merchants, craftsmen, innkeepers, gardeners, etc., as well as many activists of the local intelligentsia, active participants in the national liberation movement, etc. Thus, the construction of the Bulgarian church in Braila, which still exists today – a century and a half later, became a real nationwide affair and despite some accompanying negative phenomena, became one of the most positive and successful pages in the history of Bulgarian emigration to Romania.

Sprawozdanie z sympozjum naukowego Maryja w teologii i sztuce chrześcijańskiej, Stadniki, 6 maja 2021 roku

Author(s): Leszek Poleszak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

Report from the scientific symposium Mary, Mother of God, in theology and Christian art, Stadniki, May 6th, 2021

„За нашите пари място намериха, а нашите думи и молби под камък оставиха“: Петко Р. Славейков и българският църковен въпрос през 1858 година

Author(s): Vera Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

In 1858 Petko R. Slaveykov (1827–1895) was already an influential public figure in his homeland – the regions of Tarnovo and Tryavna. Gradually, it was becoming more and more visible nationally – especially in the field of the church struggle against the Patriarchate of Constantinople and its metropolitans on Bulgarian lands. Slaveykov’s literary endeavors were becoming more and more recognizable. In this context, one of his unpublished and unknown pamphlets is presented and interpreted in the paper. The attribution of the manuscript is based on a wide range of data – archival, biographical, literary. The connection with the other components of the writer’s work is implemented through facts, topics and language specifics. The full text of the manuscript is presented in compliance with the current rules for publishing archival materials from the Revival epoch.

Cultural-Religious Context of Translation Style. On Euthymius Atoneli’s Translations

Author(s): Irakli Orzhonia / Language(s): English,Greek, Modern (1453-) Issue: 11/2021

This article discusses the original translation style of St. Euthymius the Athonite (10th11th centuries), a great Georgian monk working in the Iviron Monastery of Athos (Greece), which was called an ‘omission-addition style’ in the scientific literature, and was entirely conditioned not by linguistic but by cultural-religious context. The main goal of the article is to examine that unique phenomenon we are dealing with in the form of his translations, that sheds light on how a translator may turn linguistic tools into cultural vectors of a society, a country, determining the main path for spiritual and intellectual development of the nation in a particular historical epoch and along the centuries. From the rich Greek theological literature, Euthymius the Athonite selected for translation those works that would best reflect the knowledge accumulated in that field at the time, and presented them to Georgian readers, still less knowledgeable in theological matters, in such a way that would best suit them and strengthen their Christian faith, on the one hand, and introduce them to the advanced Western thought, on the other. Research focus is on the translations of theological content. Based on the comparative analysis of the Greek-Georgian texts, I examine those methods and means that Euthymius the Athonite used to keep the Georgian nation from possible religious threats, misunderstandings, and difficulties that accompanied the misinterpretation of religious texts in the Middle Ages. Euthymius the Athonite laid a solid foundation for the process of Europeanization of Georgian literature and culture, which his descendants continued with dignity.

Le statut juridictionnel des paroisses catholiques au Kosovo-et-Métochie au Moyen Age

Author(s): Dragana Janjić / Language(s): French Issue: 3-4/2021

The emergence of the first Catholic parishes in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija is related to the development of mining, mainly in the settlements of German miners Saxons and the colony of traders from the coastal parts of the Serbian medieval state (Cattaro, Dubrovnik, etc.). The significance and influence of these trading colonies has experienced its climax at the time of the Serbian despots, while the question of the spiritual and administrative authority over these parishes reflects the pretensions of certain Catholic ecclesiastical centers to protect the interests and rights in the exercise of their obligations.

The Journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, from the Baptism to becoming the Son of God and from the Earthly to the Heavenly Kingdom from the Point of View of Allegorical Interpretation

Author(s): Eva Kovacheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The article discusses two historical events taken from texts from the Holy Scripture – the Old and the New Testaments, and a spiritual view on human soul, as found in the Holy tradition of the Orthodox church: they support the thesis that, according to the method of allegorical interpretation, the three evidences point to three inner stages through which human soul passes in its transition to a holistic spiritual development: from the act of the Holy Baptism to the entry into the Kingdom of God.

УСПЕНИЕТО НА СВ. ЙОАН БОГОСЛОВ В ЮЖНОСЛАВЯНСКИТЕ КАЛЕНДАРНИ СБОРНИЦИ

Author(s): Plamena Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 19/2021

The paper focuses on The Assumption of John the Theologian (BHG 916), which commemorates the feast of the Saint on 26 of September in the South Slavic calendrical collections. It researches the dissemination of this text in the South Slavic milieu. A comparison between the witnesses was according to which a preliminary systematization of the manuscripts in which the text has been copied is suggested.

UNE CONGREGATION CATHOLIQUE FEMININE A SALONIQUE OTTOMANE ET LES BULGARES

Author(s): Raya Zaimova / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2022

The present article looks briefly at the history of the Roman Catholic Congregation (the Daughters of Charity of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul) who proclaim the Gospel among the Levantine peoples. The religious institute of women devoted to active charitable work. They settled in Ottoman Salonica around the 1850s. Their activities were closely linked to those of the Lazarists, depending on the same superior of the Mission. Referring to the French archives of their house in Salonica and personal documents, the author briefly presents the objectives of their mission, which, until 1913, was facilitated by the Franco-Ottoman capitulations. The schools of Daughters of Charity were attended by children of different nations, including Bulgarians. The text is an initial attempt to study the schools of the women’s congregations in the Balkans.

Ostpreußens Kriegsbeute. Der Regierungsbezirk Zichenau 1939–1945. Hrsg. von Christhardt Henschel

Author(s): Wojciech Wichert / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Review of: Wojciech Wichert - Ostpreußens Kriegsbeute. Der Regierungsbezirk Zichenau 1939–1945. Hrsg. von Christhardt Henschel. (Einzelveröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau, Bd. 42.) 416 S., 22 Ill., Kt. ISBN 978-3-944870-75-5. (€ 58,–.)

Cristina Feneșan, Convertiri la islam în spațiul carpato-dunărean (secolele XV-XIX)

Author(s): Ligia Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2021

Review of: Cristina Feneșan, Convertiri la islam în spațiul carpato-dunărean (secolele XV-XIX), Editura Militară, București, 2020, 466 pag.

Херметични влияния в съчиненията на Константин Костенечки

Author(s): Hristo Saldzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

The present article regards the influence exerted by the Hermetic philosophy on the original works of one of the last representatives of Tarnovo literary school – Konstantin Kostenechki. They are found not only in the explicit mention of Hermest Trismegist in “The Biography of Stefan Larzarević” among philosophes to whom God has partly revealed “the truth” but also in one long and sophisticated syllogism where God Father is presented as “Mind” and “The Sources of the First Mind”. Some specific terms, the description of the Serbian anchorites and one unusual transformation of the Gospel text (Mathew 6:6) also must be ascribed to Hermetic influence. All of these hermetic elements most probably have been loaned from Greek sources having included fragments of “Corpus Hermeticum” and some other hermetic texts.