The Principles of the Pastoral Ministry of Nikolay Neplyuev, Founder of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Labour Brotherhood [PDF]
The present article uses the example of the activity of Nikolay Neplyuev (1851–1908), founder of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Labour Brotherhood, to consider pastoral care as an activity of gathering church assembly (Fr.
Dmitry Gasak
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Mother and Bride: Ecclesiology, Christology, and Anthropology [PDF]
In the 20th century reflections on the Church developed primarily in the context of eucharistic ecclesiology, according to which the Church community is a local congregation united around the Eucharist.
Fr. John Behr
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Priest Pavel Florensky’s view of Orthodox ecclesiasticism in his article “Near Khomyakov” (1916) [PDF]
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, against the background of the religious upsurge in Russia, the question of the essence of ecclesiastical life, of the quality of human life which a person acquires when they enter the Church, lives in the Church,
Gasak Dmitry S.
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Molecularity and ‘Sobornost’ on the way to church unity: archpriest Sergey Bulgakov’s theological controversy on the question of eucharistic communion with the non-orthodox [PDF]
The article examines the theological content of the controversy that unfolded between the leaders of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius in connection with the proposal of Archpriest Sergiy Bulgakov on the "partial intercommunion" – the ...
Julia Antipina
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What is the Role of the Laity in the Church? The Laity are the Church! [PDF]
The question of the role of the laity in the Church, in and of itself, requires clarification insofar as the laity are the very essence of the people of God; they are not only in the Church – they are the Church. All divisions between clergy and laity in
Archimandrite Robert Francis Taft
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“Serving to unity”: how to correctly raise the question of primacy at the universal level [PDF]
Primacy in the Church at the universal level is the key issue in the current Orthodox-Catholic dialogue. The most promising theological approach seems to be one that combines historical research with systematic investigation.
Adalberto Mainardi
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The image of Christian unity in the theological thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer [PDF]
The article is devoted to the analysis of the theme of the church’s unity in the theological works and pastoral practice of the German theologian and martyr pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Julia Shtonda
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Church Unity and Doctrinal Authority in Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov’s Book “At the Walls of Chersonesos” [PDF]
The article touches upon the theme of the unity of the church, which arises in the context of a hypothetical polemic between the bearers of the pro-Catholic and conservative Orthodox positions.
David Gzgzyan
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Practical Ecclesiology: Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov’s Thought on the Church and its refraction in the activities of the social-missionary association “Pravoslavnoe Delo” [PDF]
The article examines the activities of the social-missionary association “Pravoslavnoe Delo”, created in 1935 in émigré Paris by mother Maria Skobtsova, the spiritual daughter of Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov, who comprehensively supported the work of the ...
Natalia V. Likvintseva
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The Problem of Identifying Church Boundaries in the writings of Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov, Protopresbyter Nicholas Afanasiev and Archpriest Georges Florovsky [PDF]
The article considers one of the most pressing problems of Orthodox ecclesiology, related to the identification of different ecclesial boundaries. It depends not only on the solution of this question to clarify the doctrine of the Church, which is ...
Olga Kuznetzova
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