scholarly journals Eastern Orthodox Christian

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Christian

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Pia Sophia Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Depth Psychological ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Theological Perspective

Dynamis of Healing: Patristic Theology and the Psyche explores possible experiential traces of Orthodox Christian ontology and soteriology in the healing of the psyche, as known and experienced through depth psychology, by examining a possible relationship between theology and depth psychology as mediated through a lens of the sacramentality of creation. Chapter 1 maps the territory for inclusion of the psyche, as understood in depth psychological terms, in discussions of salvation and healing. Chapter 2 explores a central premise of patristic soteriology, giving an outline of the thought of several key church fathers and exploring the Eastern Orthodox emphasis on theosis as a model of transformation. Chapter 3 discusses a possible ontology of healing by looking at St. Maximus’s concept of the logoi of being and clinical insights into the psyche as always seeking to manifest healing qua psyche. Chapter 4 concludes the book by considering the importance of eros and desire from both a theological perspective and a depth psychological perspective.

scholarly journals Religious Socialisation of Children and Youth in Eastern Orthodox Christian Church as Educational and Pastoral Challenge of Sharing of Cultural Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Liana Galabova
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
The Church

As a result of three decades of social-cultural transformation, Bulgarian literature and practice of religious education though still rare is increasing and improving. As the Church recovers, local parishes, monasteries, and convents become visibly re-socialised and motivated again to provide more adequate pastoral care for all ages. This study explores the importance of informal improvisation and innovation as an approach, in the best interest of children and youth, at a time when an effective, regulated mass public religious education system in Bulgaria is not likely to appear soon. At the same time, revitalised eparchial, parish, convent, and monastery centres start meeting actual needs of renewed church ethos, and begin to provide opportunities for religious socialisation of children and youth that is more functional. Based on direct and indirect experience, on observation, and on partial access to limited local empirical data (that is historically and/or anthropologically only partially explored and categorised), this paper contributes to the analysis of the following unresolved issue: how to direct research toward and keep account of well-known educational and pastoral practices, whether traditional or contemporary, that aid the effective and sustainable religious socialisation of children and youth.

A Secularism of the Royal Doors: Toward an Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology of Secularism

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-130
Author(s):  
Brandon Gallaher
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
The West ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
The Trinity

The opposites, sacred and secular, are in an ‘original’ or ‘polemical unity’ in Christ and do not have their reality except in Him in a polemical attitude toward one another bearing witness in this way to their common reality and unity in the God-Man. History’s movement consists of divergence and convergence from and toward Him. One cannot, therefore, understand secularism and the secular and secularization apart from the fact that the secular is what is continuously being accepted and becoming accepted by God in Christ. Influenced by the work of Bonhoeffer, Bulgakov, and Richard Kearney and invoking Orthodox liturgy and iconography, Gallaher points to a church that images Christ and the Trinity by manifesting itself in kenosis. He argues for a move from an Orthodox anti-secularism that simply denounces and shakes its fist at the West to a positive Orthodox theology of secularism that tries to see how Orthodoxy might witness boldly to Christ in the modern pluralistic and secular West.

Eastern Orthodox Philosophical Thought

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
English Speaking

The Orthodox Christian Church is one of the largest religious groups within Christendom, second only to Roman Catholicism. Historically, it traces its origins to Christ and claims an unbroken line of fidelity to the teaching of the apostles and their successors. It consists of over a dozen autocephalous Churches, each of which is led by a Patriarch or Metropolitan Archbishop who together lead the Orthodox Church around the world in a conciliar ecclesial government, with the Patriarch of Constantinople recognized as the “first among equals.” The oldest among these Churches are in the Middle East (e.g., Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem) and the Mediterranean (e.g., Greece, Cyprus, Constantinople), as well as many in Central and Eastern Europe (e.g., Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Albania, Romania, Poland, as well as the Czech Lands and Slovakia). It also contains a number of autonomous, or self-governing, churches in Asia (e.g., China and Japan). Thus, the Eastern Orthodox Church is rich in ethnic and cultural diversity, while being united in doctrine and worship. To many in the West, however, and especially to those in the English-speaking world, it remains an enigma that is often confused either with Roman Catholicism or with a syncretic mixture of Christianity and Eastern religion. This article provides a brief sample of works from the Orthodox intellectual tradition that are likely to foster greater collaborative engagement with contemporary academic philosophy. As a whole, the collection attempts to help readers answer three questions. First, what are the views of the Orthodox Christian Church, especially those that are more distinctive of Orthodox Christianity? Second, how have these views been explained and defended in historical philosophical and theological discourse? Third, how have these views been explained and defended in contemporary philosophical and theological discourse? The presentation is divided into seven sections: General Overviews and Historical Context; Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language; Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion; Moral Psychology and Character Formation; Normative and Applied Ethics; Social, Cultural, and Political Philosophy; and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russian Religious Philosophy. The selections within each section are principally designed to be of use for contemporary English-speaking academic philosophers by providing a representative presentation not only of topics but also of eras (e.g., ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary), areas of jurisdiction (e.g., Middle Eastern, Byzantine, Slavic, etc.), and schools of thought (e.g., analytic philosophy, Continental philosophy, etc.).

scholarly journals Iconography of Saint John of Rilla through the Eyes of Pilgrims

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-115
Author(s):  
Liana Galabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Sacred Site ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Saint John ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Church Art

Iconographic abundance of images of Saint John of Rilla for a long time attracts scholarly interest in regard of preservation, presentation, and digitalisation of the rich cultural heritage of Rilla stavropigial monastery as a monument of culture of international value and central pilgrimage sacred site in Bulgaria. Images, church symbols, and prayer processions as element of tourist branding reach the border of secular and religious cultural practices that represent live Eastern Orthodox Christian heritage. Exploration of the visual representation of the image of Bulgarian patron saint in artistic-theological details deserves interest in the context of the hierotopy of the cult of saints, their relics and icons, and other objects related to their veneration. Keywords:Pilgrimage, Saint John of Rilla, Iconography, Perception of Church Art, Tourist Branding

scholarly journals Expanding Engelhardt’s cogitation: Claim for Panorthodox Bioethics

Conatus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Ioannis Ladas
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
The One

In June 2018 the Texan philosopher and distinguished bioethicist Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. crossed the great divide to meet his maker, as he would probably put it. His work remains till now the most systematic effort to fully revise Bioethics based on the doctrines of the Orthodox Christian theology, while it is also apreciseaccount ofEthics and Bioethics in the “after God” era. Engelhardt was anexcellent master of ancient Greek, medieval, western and eastern philosophy, and after heconverted from the Roman Catholic to the Eastern Orthodox Church – officially the Orthodox Catholic Church – he indulged in the works of the Holy Fathers andbecame greatly influenced by them. This is clearlymanifest in his views and continuous reference to Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers. His conversion crucially influenced not only his bioethical views, but also his entire philosophical system. This magnificent journey obviously turned the Texan philosopher into a true Theologist – not in the academic sense, but in the one the Orthodox Catholic Church accepts, according to which “a Theologist is a person of God, from God, before God and speaks to praise God”. Engelhardt was not the first to deal with bioethical issues under the spectrum of Orthodox Theology, but he was the first to unravel both secular and Western-Church Bioethics and suggest a totally different version of Bioethicsbased on the principles of Orthodox ethics, the ceremonial and esoteric life of the Orthodox Church, having previously made himself a true communicant of both the paternal tradition and dogmatic teaching.

scholarly journals Barriers to the Digital and Physical Accessibility of the Religious Cultural Heritage of Holy Mount of Sofia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Galina Bogdanova ◽  
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Liana Galabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Church Management ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Internal Characteristic ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Pilgrimage Tourism ◽  
Physical Accessibility

Accessibility of religious centres and their additional hierotopical natural and architectural spaces, although implied by virtues of responsibility, solidarity, care, charity, and love, does not seem to be internal characteristic priority in confessional specifics of socialisation of private and public places by Eastern Orthodox Christian Church. Management of living heritage (traditional and reconstructed), as well as of tangible (movable and immovable) church cultural heritage, of artworks and art performances according to their artistic value, and of feasts and practices, according to their touristic potential is accomplished mostly in the interest of their liturgical confessional function in the context of Eastern Orthodox Christian subcultural lifestyle in its whole traditional and contemporary global variety. Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Sacred Sites, Accessibility, Special Needs, Tourist Socialisation, Subcultures, Monuments of Culture, Eastern Christian Orthodox Church, Pilgrimage tourism, Holly Mount of Sofia

scholarly journals The Romanian Legionary Movement: An Orthodox Christian Assessment of Anti-Semitism

1986 ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Alexander F. C. Webster
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Documentary Source ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Movement

The Legionary Movement in Romania between the two world wars in this century provides a useful historico-ethical case study of the inter-relations among anti-Semitism, modern nationalism, and Eastern Orthodox Christianity. To be sure, this historical phenomenon is fascinating in its own right, and the burgeoning literature on this subject reflects the interests of historians and social scientists alike. The purpose of this essay, however, is to examine this complex political-cultural movement in the light of the secondary literature and the primary documentary source in order to evaluate it from the perspective of an Orthodox Christian moral theologian.

Вселенское Православие и Московское царство в начале Смуты: источники информации о событиях в России

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
Vasily Ul’ianovsky
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Time Of Troubles ◽  
Boris Godunov

The author demonstrates that relations between the Russian state and the four Eastern Orthodox Christian patriarchates were not interrupted at the beginning of the Time of Troubles and continued in the traditional way. The main focus is on sources of information available in the Orthodox East concerning events in Russia: officials of the Russian church hierarchy (Arseny Elassonsky, Ignatius, Nectarios, and Matthew Kolitsydis), diplomatic missions (1603–1606), information about the Pretender Dmitry circulating in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1602–1604), and Greek priests at the court of Prince Vasily Ostrozhky. The author investigates the levels and content of information about Russia at the end of the reign of Boris Godunov and during the reign of False Dmitry I that was promptly transmitted to the Patriarchs.

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