Emergence and development of historical and liturgical studies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Russian Academia: a study of the sacraments [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2021 Studies in historical liturgics played an important role in the Russian science from the second half of the 19th century up to the period when theological academies were forcibly closed by the Communist revolution.
Zoya Dashevskaya
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The Scholarly Legacy of Archimandrite Robert Francis Taft, S. J. (9.01.1932–2.11.2018): Reflections on his Methodology [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021 This article is dedicated to the memory of Robert Francis Taft, who was an outstanding 20th century liturgist. It analyzes the main milestones in Taft’s life, as well as his scholarly formation.
Fr. Edward Farrudgia
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The Word of God: Catechesis and the Sacraments [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021 This article reveals and substantiates the direct link between the sacraments and catechesis. The author examines the evidence from the Holy Scriptures, as well as patristic and liturgical sources, and shows with examples that baptism, chrismation and ...
Fr Andrew Lossky
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Religions, 2023 The liturgy is one of the most important places in which people are formed theologically through components such as prayers, music, visual art, and preaching.
Stephanie A. Budwey
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What is the Role of the Laity in the Church? The Laity are the Church! [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021 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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Saint Wilgefortis: A Queer Image for Today
Religions, 2022 An increasing number of people identify outside of the sex/gender binary, many of whom are in crisis and under attack simply because of how they choose to identify.
Stephanie A. Budwey
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The role of professor V. I. Dolotsky in the development of Lliturgics as science and academic subject in Russian higher Church education [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2017 This paper is devoted to one of the key moments in liturgical studies in Russian higher church education. This moment was outwardly marked by the introduction of the new term “liturgics” instead of the old term “church antiquities” in the 1840s.
Nikolai Karamyshev
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“There Is No Official Divorce Ritual in the Church”—Challenging a Mantra by Ritual Design
Religions, 2023 End-of-relationship rituals are not respected within Protestant churches. Therefore, many church websites emphasize that there are no official divorce rituals to this day.
Bernhard Lauxmann
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The orthodox liturgical year and its theological structure
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 The concept of ‘liturgical year’ indicates a reference to the meaning of the measuring units of civil time, and especially to the cosmic entities that determine the general rhythm of time – the sun and the moon. Interestingly, the liturgical time depends
Dan A. Streza
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The Theological Heritage of Fr. Alexander Schmemann [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021 September 2021 marks 100 years since the birth of Fr. Alexander Schmemann. This interview focusses on the main significance of his work for Christian theology in the fields of liturgical revival and Eucharistic Theology. Fr.
Fr. Georgy Kochetkov +4 more
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