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Sergey Rachinsky, a professor tof the Moscow University, an educator and the founder of the school in Tatevo, Tver Oblast, and also the founder of 20 schools near Tatevo, was a close friend and interlocutor of Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Sergey Smolensky, Vasily Rozanov, Leo Tolstoy and many other fa...

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The unique memoirs about Patriarch Tikhon published below, belonging to the outstanding historian Mikhail Efimovich Gubonin, as well as recorded by him from the words of his closest relatives and literarily processed, were included in the collection "Contemporaries about Patriarch Tikhon",...

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The dialect of the village of Gammalsvenskby belongs historically to the Swedish dialects of Estonia, which were spoken before World War II in the Noarootsi peninsula (Sw. Nuckö), in the villages of Kurkse (Korkis) and Vihterpalu (Vippal), and in the islands of the Moonsund archipelago: Osmussaar (O...

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The article is devoted to the spiritual and ideological aspects of interaction between the Russian Empire and Ethiopia (Abyssinia) at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. Relations between the two Christian states can be described as “a journey through time,” since from the point o...

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The publication covers correspondence during the First World War (1914-1917) between the abbot of the Valaam Transfiguration Monastery, Abbot Mauritius (Baranova, 1838-1918) with Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856-1929). A total of 35 letters and telegrams are presented. The correspondence...

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Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican clergyman and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has made an enormous contribution to the struggle against apartheid. His own position can be defined as a “theology of forgiveness”. The article details the complex intersection of diverse socio-cultural traditions that h...

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This article outlines the possibility of describing the cult of the Supreme Being as a derivative of religious and enlightenment worldviews. The cult of the Supreme Being, which emerged in the context of the policy of revolutionary dechristianization and, more broadly, in the process of secularizing...

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The idea of the patriarchate in the Russian Church in different periods evoked direct or indirect associations with the monarchical principle of government. With the beginning of the Russian revolution of 1917 and of the active preparation for the Church council, this story became extremely acute an...

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Documents from the fund of the Office of the Synod of the Russian State Historical Archive (RSHA. F. 796) characterizing the position of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon, the Holy Synod and the Supreme Church Council of the Orthodox Russian Church on a number of issues of Church life in Ukraine in 1917...

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the letter of Pope Celestine I to the bishops of Southern Gaul (428). In this text, the Roman pontiff sharply criticizes the church practices that had become widespread in the region, which can be associated with the influence of monasticism on the episcopat...

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The situation that emerged in the period of VIII-X centuries, when representatives of the Abbasid dynasty (750-1258), who had recently come to power, began to actively encourage the conversion of non-believers to Islam, prompted representatives of different ethno-confessional groups (Melkites, Jacob...

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The article examines the documentary materials of the meetings of bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, held in 1952 and 1954 under chairmanship of St. John, Archbishop of Brussels and Western Europe. The documents of the meetings were deposited in the archives of the German Diocese of the ROCOR. Th...

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The article examines the quasi-religious mode of creativity of the Soviet avant-garde film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) in the context of secular modern culture. Since the time of the French Revolution, the theme of violence, which has penetrated into European public discourse, has firmly...

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This article explores the implications of contemporary naturalistic theories of religion for the rationality of religious (theistic) belief. The so-called evolutionary debunking arguments attempt to undermine the rationality of a belief by appealing to its evolutionary origins. Naturalistic philosop...

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The paper deals with such a trend in theology which grows increasingly in the Western world (with the number of publications on and around the topic growing at an exponential rate) but remains almost unfamiliar in Russia. At first, the author offers his conception of its division into periods as bas...

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The article analyzes the influence of the «theological origin» of Heidegger’s philosophizing on his philosophy. Even at the very beginning of the creative path of the German philosopher, there is a confrontation «within» the religious issues of his early works. In early works Heidegger contrasts the...

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The subject of this article is the use of the Fourth Book of Ezra in Russian social and religious thought of the 16th-18th centuries. This work was translated into Church Slavonic from Latin at the end of the 15th century and until the mid-18th century it was part of the main text of the Old Testame...

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