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“The ultimate goal of education is to give the Orthodox Russian Church a truly Christian pastor, a worthy patriot son to the Motherland, and an honest and cultured person to society”. Educational process in Leningrad theological schools in the 1940 s [PDF]
Based on archival materials, the article examines the educational process in Leningrad theological academy and seminary in the 1940 s. The first inspector after the revival of theological schools in Leningrad was Archpriest Alexander Osipov.
Karpuk D. A.
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G.S. Sablukov (1804–1880), a lecturer at the Saratov Theological Seminary (1830–1849) and later a professor at the Kazan Theological Academy (1849–1862), holds a significant place in the history of Russian pre-revolutionary Oriental studies.
Ramil' M. Valeev +4 more
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ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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The latest adventure of the “patriarch in exile”. Former hieromonk Iliodor (Trufanov) as a creator of a new religion [PDF]
Currently, the life of former hieromonk Iliodor (S.M. Trufanov) in the pre-revolutionary period is well researched. He was known as a zealous monarchist who had a lot of admirers, and as a friend of G.E. Rasputin.
Andrey Kostryukov
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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The article analyzes the initial stage of the development of the revolutionary Narodnik movement through the reading practices of the 1870s generation.
Yuliya A. Safronova
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Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
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Tambov public library as an element of provincial cultural environment
The relevance of the study is due to the need to fill the historiographical gap in the study of public libraries activities of pre-revolutionary Russia as an element of the provincial cultural environment.
L. N. Patrina
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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