“With the Poles We Have Always Got Along...”

Author(s): Ilia Todev / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2014

The text examines in brief the Bulgarian-Polish relations to point out that they, due to the important similarities in the destinies of the two Slav peoples, always has been good. The author presents at this background a little known case of Polish-Bulgarian synergy. It concerns a French booklet, published in 1868 by the lay leader of the Bulgarian Church Movement under the title “The Bulgarian Question”. The booklet, created in collaboration with a Polish émigré, was a kind of a manifesto through which the Autocephalous Bulgarian Church was re-established under the name of “Exarchate”. Besides this purely historical and purely Bulgarian significance this text has another very important dimension – which is upto-date and goes far beyond Bulgaria. It consists in the proclamation of the slogan “Variety in unity, liberty in order”, the first part of which is identical with the motto of the EU. This coincidence might be a reason to claim that the European idea has its Bulgarian-Polish roots which must be known and admitted – in Bulgaria and in Poland as well as in the EU.

Holy Places in the Region of Sofia: Cults, Narratives, Images [Свети места в Софийско: култове, разкази, образи]. Edited by Albena Georgieva. Sofia: Professor Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2013

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2016

Цикълът по историята на пророк Моисей в галерията на църквата "Рождество Христово" в Арбанаси

Author(s): Margarita Kuyumdzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2003

Ранновизантийските олтарни прегради в Тракия и Дакия

Author(s): Iva Doseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2002

Константинополски процесийни кръстове от Средновековна България

Author(s): Konstantin Totev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2002

Напрестолно евангелие от Казанлък

Author(s): Elena Genova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2002

Търновската плащаница от 1569 година

Author(s): Yuliana Boycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2002

Новооткрити сцени от житието на св. Козма Зоrрафски в Главната църква на манастира Зограф

Author(s): Ivanka Gergova,Alexander Kuyumdjiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2002

Zusammenfassungen

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German Issue: 3/2002

Summaries of the articles in the issue.

Table of Contents - 1/2002 issue

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2002

ToC: 2002, issue 1 In Bulgarian and English

Водата – граница

Author(s): Georgi Gerov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

Богородица – Хестия

Author(s): Elena Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

Дългия живот на един мит. (Житийния цикъл на Йосиф Прекрасни в галерията на църквата "Рождество Христово" в Арбанаси)

Author(s): Margarita Kuyumdzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

Кивот (ковчег) за мощи от Германския маннстир край София

Author(s): Elena Genova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2001

Пътят на хаджията. Структурата на една изложба

Author(s): Svetla Moskova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2001

За няколко възрожденски щампи от Арбанаси

Author(s): Diana Kosseva-Toteva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2001

Символика на ламята в средновековната българска дърворезба

Author(s): Valentin Angelov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2001

Although intended for the Christian temple, ecclesiastical woodcarving represents compositions influenced by the Folklore and the ancient Eastern mythology. It contains images of sirens, unicorns, centaurs, sphinxes, etc., but the lamias (dragons) are the most interesting among them. They appear on the royal gates, by the Crucifix, on the columns and woodcarving panels, etc. These teratological motifs offer very different mythological-folklore interpretations: the lamias as apotropaic sign, as chtonic creature, representing the great Mother-Earth, as one participant of the dual nature of the world, etc. Only in the late iconosthasis (the end of the 19th century and during the 20 century) the lamia appears according to the orthodox Christian ideas as a symbol of evil or Satan, but that means the end of the great epoch of the ecclesiastical woodcarving and its symbolic importance.

Реставратор или изкуствовед (Двете хипостази на Любен Прашков)

Author(s): Elka Bakalova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2001

The relation between the immanence and transcendence within the religious imaginary in Sandu Tudor’s akathist-hymns

Author(s): Carmen Ciornea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The topic approached in this study involves identifying the particular notes of Father Daniil Sandu Tudor’s akathist-hymns, mystic poet (neohymnologist) of the Romanian Orthodox Church - by applying a hermeneutic from the perspective of iconic anthropology structure. The fact that the akathist-hymns were accepted by the Romanian Orthodox Church in her liturgical corpus and are thus enjoying the status of sacredness, specific to the religious texts, requires the identification of appropriate ways of reception of this type of creation. Knowledge, in the neo hymnologist poet’s point of view, does not have much in common with the exercise of reason because the ultimate goal is deification. But even if you take the world transcendental teleological support, it can be achieved only by our way of thinking and behaving in the real world. The relation between immanence and transcendence clearly derives both from the dual nature of Jesus Christ and God’s Trinitarian status. The sacrificial and redemptive Cross - Christian symbol and sacral value - necessarily requires the supreme sacrifice model, which is the one of the Savior’s crucifixion, model that intermediates the relation between heaven and earth, between immanence and transcendence.

God’s immanency in Abraham’s response to revelation: from providence to omnipresence

Author(s): Tudor Cosmin Ciocan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

My assertion is that God’s biblical image may not reflect entirely His existence in itself as well as His revealed image. Even if God in Himself is both transcendent and immanent at the same time, and He is revealing accordingly in the history of humankind, still the image of God constructed in the writings of the Old Testament is merely the perspective made upon God by His followers to whom the He has revealed. That could be the reason why for centuries God’s biblical image seems to emphasize more His immanence, starting with Pentateuch, where God cohabites with Adam on Earth, then He reveals Himself to Abraham and Moses and so on. Somewhere, after the Babylonian exile, the image suffers slightly differences tilting towards God’s transcendence. In a path already created and grounded by Israel’s ancestors, even this new color of transcendence bears the nuances of immanence. How can this be possible? Let’s take a look on the revelation received by Abraham from God and see how this can fit the profile. Instead of the transcendence of God regarded by others in the differentness of Yahweh appointed by Abraham in his walking out of Mesopotamia, I will prove otherwise, that Abraham is on the contrary proving God’s immanency in this very differentness of His in relation with other gods by providence and omnipresence, indwelling His creation.