Elpis

In June 2020, 100 years have passed since the actual start of the demolition of the Orthodox cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Warsaw. The largest Orthodox temple in Poland has been open to the faithful for 3 years only. However, it has become legendary like no other, because of its “second life” – the fate of the cathedral’s equipment and usage of materials obtained during its demolition. The author describes ambiguous history of the fate of movable equipment and elements of decor of the temple, presenting examples of it further usage. Referring to the example of an iconostasis from an Orthodox church in Krzemień in Belarus, author shows the emerging “urban legends” regarding the use of equipment from the capital’s cathedral.

Dormition of the Mother of God is one of the most solemnly celebrated feasts in the Orthodox liturgical year. It has a rich hymnography, including an additional rite of the Funeral of the Mother of God. The texts of the feast are largely inspired by the hymnography of the Holy Week, and especially Holy Saturday. This paper presents, on the example of the feast of the Dormition, a general phenomenon of intertextuality in hymnography. Mutual interpenetration of hymns appears in the context of many feasts and many saints.

Publicado na Revista Palíndromo (B1), v.9, n.18 (2017). 

"Publicado em junho de 2015, na Itália, pela editora Nottetempo, e ainda aguardando por sua publicação em português, este pequeno ensaio intitulado “L’avventura”, de Giorgio Agamben, não deixa de pagar tributo tanto aos propósitos warburguianos quanto ao seu constante diálogo com Heidegger. Agamben, neste ensaio, passa pelas “Saturnais” de Macróbio, assim como pela poesia cavalheiresca medieval, por Goethe, Dante, Simmel, Hegel e tantos outros, reconstruindo, dessa forma, os vários sentidos da palavra “aventura”. Aventura essa, que não é apenas um exercício estético, já que se funde à palavra, à vida e à linguagem. O resultado desta fusão não é senão o destino. Eis a proposta agambeniana: dar conta das várias formas (e corpos) que o termo “aventura” conserva, bem como articulá-la às constantes máscaras sob as quais os deuses se apresentam.

Palavras-chave: Giorgio Agamben; Aventura; Ereignis; Tiche; Eros; Demônio; Ananque; Élpis"

Link: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/palindromo/issue/view/594

The foundations of the social concept are one of the most important normative acts issued by the Russian Orthodox Church. The unanimous adoption of this document by the Holy Council of Bishops of the Russian Church, which took place on August 13-16, 2000 in Moscow, was not only a local event, but a significant fact on the scale of the entire Orthodox Church worldwide. For the first time in history, one of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches decided to formulate an official position on current social, economic, economic and cultural issues, as well as define the Church-state relationship in the conditions of historical reality in which it found itself at the threshold of the third millennium. The promulgation of the Foundations of the Social Concept has become a powerful impulse for the renewal of spiritual life, greater involvement of the Orthodox clergy in social life, the development of institutional and non-institutional forms of mission and evangelization, and the multidimension...

The article attempts to present the mystical meaning of food. Through food, the bond between God and man is broken, through food, which is the Eucharist, this bond is restored. Moreover, during the liturgical year, the Church sanctifies the matter and the whole world in the rites of blessing the food and produce of the earth.

A dogmatic is a short chant of dogmatic content devoted to the Holy Virgin. According to the orthodox tradition, the author of dogmatics is considered reverend John Damaskin (VII cent.). Due to their poetic style and form, structural specificity and contents dogmatics are the best proof that our church hymn writing is a church confession of our dogmata, our teaching of faith and morality. Listening to these enlightening chants dur-ing church service plunges Christians into the impenetrable depth of our faith.

The article is devoted to the concept of the „new sacredness” in Orthodox music. The „new sacredness” is a term that has appeared in this field for some time. The article will analyze all the sources of this term. Church singing is designed to help the believer during the divine service in a conversation with God. Orthodox music and its influence should create an appropriate atmosphere that brings a person closer to God. The conductor and the composer play a very important role in this program. They have a great responsibility, because their main task is to help believers reach God.

The article presents the general principles of assigning to the entry words of the Dictionary of Polish Orthodox Terminology their Greek, Church Slavonic and English equivalents, points to problems resulting from differences in the scope of terminology in particular categories of headwords and their foreign-language equivalents, analyzes the problems and presents the methods of solving them, established in the course of work on the Dictionary, by using foreign-language equivalents of headwords’ synonyms. The article points to various sources and the lack of sources of some foreign-language equivalents to Orthodox terms presented in a Dictionary of Polish Orthodox Terminology.

Alexei Khomiakov (1804–1860), poet, playwright, publicist, philosopher, inventor and a cavalry officer, played a decisive role in the development of European theology, overcoming scholastic categories. A special contribution in this process had his work „The Church is one” that – with its catechist character – departs from the understanding of the Church as an institution. It was written during the peak development of scholasticism in Russia and marked the end of that method. It also influenced significantly the development of theology of other Christian Churches. The Article is accompanied by a translation of Khomiakov’s work „The Church is one”.

The creator of the cosmos and the human race has made the world perfect and lasting in perfect harmony. God made man in paradise to live forever and then remain healthy in any sphere. Deficiencies, martyrdom, melancholy, suffering appeared at the time of the fall of man and falling into sin (sin of the forefathers). All religious practices are a bridge between the empirical world of matter and the transcendent spiritual world. In order to achieve full health, the coexistence of the spiritual and bodily sphere, and their coexistence, is extremely important. Man converts ontologically, turning away from the opposite pathological condition and returns to God, regaining the health of his nature. Initially, the spiritual heals, that is, the soul, then the psyche and somatics. Among the many saints, doctors have their patrons, while their patients many advocates in all sorts of diseases. Everyday many patients and doctors ask saints for support during the fight against diseases. The lives...