УЛОГАТА НА ТОПЛИЧКИОТ ЕПИСКОП ДОСИТЕЈ ВО РАЗРЕШУВАЊЕ НА МАКЕДОНСКОТО ЦРКОВНО ПРАШАЊЕ 1951 – 1958 ГОДИНА: ПРИЛОГ КОН БИОГРАФИЈАТА НА ПОГЛАВАРОТ НА МАКЕДОНСКАТА ПРАВОСЛАВНА ЦРКВА

ПО ПОВОД 110 ГОДИНИ ОД РАЃАЊЕТО

Author(s): Borče Ilievski / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 1/2016

This paper is a contribution to the research into the life of His Beatitude Dositej (Dositheus), Primate of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, who served as vicar to Patriarch Vikentije (Vicentius) of Serbia from 1951 to 1958 with the title of Bishop of Toplica. That was a time when the resolution of the Macedonian church issue was stranded between the interests of the state and the Serbian Orthodox Church. Bishop Dositej was the candidate of the Initiative Board for the organization of the Orthodox Church in Macedonia for the office of archpriest in one of Macedonia’s eparchies until 1958 when, at the Second Clergy and Laity Assembly, the Ohrid Archbishopric was restored as Macedonian Orthodox Church and Dositej was enthroned as its first primate.

Униатство и личное именование беларуcoв в XVII-XIX вв.

Author(s): Anna Mezenko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: IX/2004

In the article formulated were the analyses of research concerning the role the Uniate Church played in forming the anthroponymie system of Byelorussians in the XVII and XVIII c. The data of 1641 belonging to the library of the Lithuarican Academy of Science as well as the Vitebsk Census of the year 1812 were made use of.

Униформа војних свештеника у српској и југословенској војсци 1839–1941

Author(s): Miljan Milkić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2009

The uniform worn by Army chaplains in the Principality and Kingdom of Serbia was not different from the outfits worn by parish priests. The only difference was the priest cap worn by orthodox chaplains. That cap differed from the traditional priest cap in shape and it had a cross in the middle. The cross marked the priest’s rank: the golden cross was worn by senior priests, and the silver cross by junior priests. Towards the end of the World War I in 1918, a special uniform was prescribed for orthodox chaplains. It was actually a modified officer uniform – a black officer’s trench coat and a black military cap with a cross in the middle. Chaplains of all faiths serving in the armed forces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia took a unique approach that military chaplains should wear a special uniform. They thought that they had to have a military uniform, which in addition to the spiritual character of their profession, would enable them to be adequately ranked and respected in the military hierarchy. The uniform of military chaplains had a social role in the armed forces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Beside officers, military servant had right to wear the uniform. The status of the military servant, unlike the status of the civil servant, guaranteed a higher salary and various officers’ allowances. The aspiration of military chaplains to persuade the military authorities to introduce a special uniform for them was mainly motivated by their ambition to become military servants and thus increase their income and raise their social status. In spite of many proposals, the uniform of military chaplains was never accepted, and military chaplains remained civil servants until the end of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1941.

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.

Учитавање фундаменталистичких и рационалистичких тенденција у идеју светосавља тридесетих година XX века

Author(s): Branko Radovanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2020

In the period of the 1930s, ideas of Svetosavlje were built and grounded upon the cult of Saint Sava, that had spanned all throughout our history, as a comprehensive idea and the very essence of orthodoxy among Serbs. Seeking to discover the entirety of Saint Sava’s legacy, the Serbian elite of both the theological and secular kind, studiously analyses what the term “Svetosavlje” encompasses and unifies within itself. The contact of Saint Sava’s cult with the political, social and cultural environment of those times had the consequence of the intentional misreading of certain tendencies and thoughts as being, what we could call, fundamentalist and rationalist. Of course, these tendencies were met with sharp criticism by the theological and secular intelligentsia of the time, who saw in the idea of Svetosavlje a resurrectional path of orthodoxy and search for an essence of identity that concerned not only Serbians, but also the entirety of the ecumene.

УЧРЕДЯВАНЕ НА ПОМЕСТНА БЪЛГАРСКА ЦЪРКВА И ЙЕРАРХИЯ

Author(s): Angel Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 15/2015

The focus of interest in this article is the introduction and spread of Christianity on our territory, owing to the missionary activities of the Apostles, as well as to its later establishment. For all of this is judged based on a number of preserved Byzantine and Bulgarian written records. The reasons for the adoption of Christianity by Prince Boris-Michael and the need for Bulgarian church management and hierarchy to lead it down the path of truth have been analyzed. The whole activity of the Prince-Converter convinces us that he seeks not only to obtain a separate, but completely independent hierarchy in Christian Bulgaria, which he receives at a church council in 870, with the participation of representatives of all the ancient churches in the rank of patriarchates.

Философски интерпретации на християнството

Author(s): Tsvetelin Angelov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

The article includes several conceptual focuses: the personality of Jesus Christ as true God and Man; the differences between birth and creation in relation to Jesus Christ as the Son of God; the question of the possibility of Divine Kennosis in the person of Jesus Christ; the question of the HolyTrinity. These issues are interpreted in a philosophical context. The text discusses God as Absolute Transcendence, Infinity, Totality and Love. At the same time, the author strives to establish a correspondence with the concepts of conventional theology on these four points.

Философско-богословски аспекти на антропологичния поврат: руският случай

Author(s): Nina Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017

The study is focused on the ideas of Russian religious anthropology, on Vladimir Solovyov’s visions about the Godmanhood and its profound impact on twentieth-century Russian thought. The author emphasizes Nikolai Berdyaev’s and Simon Frank’s contribution in this respect. Russian philosophers were opposed to the idea of a brutal God; they insisted on being related to Him. The author presents their meaning according to which the problem of man can be integrally posited and resolved only in the light of the idea of Godmanhood – an idea that is alien to Western theology.

Флоровский против Тойнби: экуменический контекст критики теории цивилизаций

Author(s): Lepeshkin Yuvenaly,Sergey Mihailovich Usmanov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2021

The subject of this research is very relevant in the context of spiritual and socio-political contradictions of the modern world. The problems of civilization in the context of ecumenical dialogue are still poorly studied. On the basis of the prosopographic method and civilizational approach, the authors study Archpriest George Florovsky’s critical analysis of the historical and cultural concept of Arnold Joseph Toynbee. The authors focus on Father George’s speech at an ecumenical meeting in Greece in 1959, as well as his posthumously published article on major ecumenical thinkers. The authors elaborate on Father George’s main arguments in his criticism of Toynbee’s concept. The main motives and concepts of this critical analysis (“rejudices of the West”, Christian understanding of history, the need for an ecumenical meeting) are highlighted. The authors express their attitude to Father George’s critical considerations. In this regard, they recognize the solidity and significance of the civilizational research of the outstanding English historian of the twentieth century, Arnold Joseph Toynbee.

ФРОНТО И ЦЕЛС ЗА РАННОТО ХРИСТИЯНСТВО В РИТОРИЧЕСКА И ФИЛОСОФСКА ПЕРСПЕКТИВА

Author(s): Yuliyan Velikov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 15/2015

The Greco-Roman Antiquity began to recognise Christianity as a real problem only after the Jews’ attacks against it. Dominant in every way, Rome would become a tormentor for centuries, drowning a long period of human history in rivers of Christian martyrdom. Early Christianity had to face not only physical annihilation but also intellectual оstracism, systematically carried out by the pagan elite – rhetors and philosophers. This paper examines the arguments that Marcus Cornelius Fronto and Celsus brought against Christianity as an important component in the palette of Anti-Christian arguments in the second century.

Херменевтични бележки за библейските псалми

Author(s): Regina Koycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 16/2016

The article examines two difficult to interpret verses from the Book of Psalms. The analysis compares the Hebrew text, the Septuagint, the Old Bulgarian text (along with its Church Slavonic version) and the Modern Bulgarian synodical translation of the psalms. The proposed reading is based on linguistic, literary and theological observations. In the first analysed verse (Ps. 4:2), semantic illegibility is interpreted as a result of the implicit presence of a specific Hebraism in the translations. In the other case (Ps. 5:9), verbal expression is highly elliptical because of the preference given to the phonetic structure of the verse in the Hebrew original.

Храната и храненето в средновековните славянски пенитенциални текстове

Author(s): Desislava Naydenova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2018

The article examines the evidence on food and nutrition found in the Slavic penitentials. Unlike the law texts in the Western historical tradition, the Slavic mediaeval law texts are poorly researched and (rarely) used as a source of information about the Bulgarian history and culture. The manuscript tradition of the Slavic penitentials (the volume of manuscripts, their frequency, editorial interventions) shows that for a long period of time (almost until the 18th century) they have remained among the main texts used by the priests during the sacraments of confession and repentance. Therefore, they can be a source of important information about the everyday life of the Bulgarians. An emphasis is put on the diet, the ban on certain foods, the role of food and nutrition in relation to the people following other traditions such as heretics, Jews, Armenians. It is argued that penitentials reflect a kind of duality. On the one hand, they may be regarded as attesting the everyday lifestyle – the Christian calendar, the observance of certain hygienic norms, while, on the other hand, they reflect, to the highest degree, the concepts of purity and impurity which are characteristic for the “primitive” cultures and the blurring of which might have led to supernatural punishment.

Християнски празници и народни обичаи – тяхната символика и отражението им в изкуството

Author(s): Ivaylo Kostov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2016

Culturologically, a feast is a compendium of a kind, encompassing and evincing all elements of cultural identification when it comes both to a community or an individual. Such elements encompass also all the symbolic archetypes associated with the national mentality. Studying the ways in which they are being realised can help to establish the mechanisms of how cultural phenomena are produced. Or taking the liberty of paraphrasing the biblical saying: ’Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them ‘, there would be similar moral strength and a more clear tendency to the words ‘Wherefore by celebrating their feasts ye shall know them’. This problematics manifestly has its effect on arts to further miraculously translate into the society too, transforming into a creative urge, needed for artistic output.

Християнският възглед за страданията в контекста на библейските идеи за Божественото наказание

Author(s): Konstantin Kovachev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2015

The article is about the Christian and ethical views of the problem related to the suffering reflected in the light of the Biblical points of view and ideas in terms of God’s Rightness and Punishment.

ХРИШЋАНСКА ЗАЈЕДНИЦА НАЗАРЕНА У СРБИЈИ ДО 1914. ГОДИНЕ И ПРОБЛЕМ ЦИВИЛНОГ СЛУЖЕЊА ВОЈСКЕ

Author(s): Nenad Ž. Petrović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 30/2018

Nazarenes were a small religious community that spread rapidly in the 19th century in the southern parts of Hungary and from there to Serbia. These zealots of Christianity advocated for the recognition of conscientious objection and demanded that servemilitary term without weapons. Their attitude stemmed from a radical interpretation ofthe Gospels. Everywhere they encountered the misunderstanding and resistance of both– the church and the state. In Serbia, they were punished by draconian prison sentencesfor refusing to serve under arms but also because of the confession of their faith. The Orthodox Church has encouraged the authorities to spread the repression against the Nazarenes. The article was written primarily based on unpublished documents from the Archives of Serbia.

ХРИШЋАНСТВО И КОПЕРНИКАНСКА РЕВОЛУЦИЈА

Author(s): Nenad D. Plavšić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 33/2020

The period of the occurrence of modern science cannot be truly understood without looking into it in relation to Christian religion. The influence of Christian theologyon science, at the time of Copernican Revolution, was huge. This can easily be seen if welook at the life and work of the great scientists who gave the biggest contribution to thatastronomical scientific revolution which happened in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Certain scientific concepts, held by their pioneers, were often the consequence oftheological belief. The religious belief that the universe is in order was in the very heart ofscience of that time. However, it is well known that Christian Church was preventing thedevelopment of modern science greatly. It is essential to point out the difference betweentrue Christianity and its abuse in order to understand the interaction between Christianity and science, at the time of Copernican Revolution, in its true sense. This great difference is overlooked for ideological reasons. In this way it is emphasized that religion andscience are in an irreconcilable conflict from their very beginning. This simple and biased attitude does not correspond the reality which was much more complex. Nowadays,religion and science are among the most powerful cultural and intellectual forces. Therefore, it is necessary to look into the beginning of their interaction at the time of Copernican Revolution. It is the only way to overcome the conflicting model between them andaccomplish the necessary discourse. On the way to establishing the communication between religion and science, the history of their relation at the time of the creation of modern science can be of great benefit for their mutual understanding and prevention frompossible abuse.

Цар Резос и Орфей в планината Пангей

Author(s): Milen Ivanov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 23/2018

The present paper has been focused on the literary passage of (Pseudo-)Euripides from his tragedy “Rhesus”, which deals with the posthumous being of the Thracian king (Eurip. Rhes. 962-973), and the fragment of Aeschylus from his tragedy “Bassarids”, which tells about the life and death of Orpheus (Aesch. Bassar. Fr. 83). Both texts situate king Rhesus and Orpheus in Mount Pangaion. They describe on one hand Dionysian, chthonian type of cult and ritualism, and on the other hand – Apollonian, solar type of cult and ritualism. The passages have been analysed in comparison with other pieces of evidence from ancient authors, related to Mount Pangaion and other similar cultic topoi. These sacred places described in the ancient literary tradition correspond to the rock topoi of cult and ritualism in South-East Europe and in Asia Minor, which have preserved numerous ancient relicts as a vital heritage up to the present day. One important feature of Thracian religion is to be noticed – both its unity and its variety. we can see clearly juxtaposed the Apollonian and the Dionysian principle – this fundamental opposition which marks the entire European cultural-historical tradition. But this juxtaposition can be logically explained in the light of the literary evidence of the Roman writer Macrobius. In his work “Saturnalia” he provides numerous arguments that Apollo and Dionysus are one and the same god. In conclusion, Mount Pangaion may be considered as an important sacred place of synthesis between Dionysian and Apollonian types of religiousness.

ЦВЕТАН ВАСИЛЕВ, Гръцкият език в църквите със смесени надписи от ХVII век в България – епиграфски репертоар, езикови особености, механизми на писане, Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски”, София 2017, pp. 498.

Author(s): Elissaveta Moussakova / Language(s): English / Issue: 9/2019

Цветан Тодоров (1939–2017) – апостолът на хуманизма, мечтателят за свобода

Author(s): Valentina Sharlanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2016

Церковно-приходское обучение на территории православного прихода Вознесения Господня в Клейниках

Author(s): Adrian Kuprianowicz / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 20/2018

The Orthodox-parochial education system in the Klejniki parish had a rich history. At those times, the educational system was above all for the benefit of the poor community. The Orthodox-parochial education in Klejniki was not on a particularly high level. In October 1884, 8 grammar schools were established within the parish of Klejniki. Towards the end of the 19th century, the parish had already 11 schools teaching 240 children. In the year 1893/1894, 6 boys from the Klejniki parish finished their education in the Orthodox teacher training college in Trześcianka-Stawek. A significant role in the organisation of the intellectual life and the development of Orthodox education in the countryside was played by the priest Jan Chlebcewicz. He was the founder of the Florenti Pawlenkow library and reading room. The financial burden, problems of accommodation for the teachers, an insufficient number of well qualified teachers, the poverty of the parents of the children attending the schools had a negative impact on the general state of the education in the Klejniki parish. The Orthodox education and school system contributed substantially to the eradication of illiteracy among the rural population. The First World War and the mass exodus into Russia were the immediate causes for the collapse of the library and reading room as well as all the schools in the parish of Klejniki.