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Notes on the Council of Florence, 1438-39

From Anonimous Byzantine Chronicle #104: The translation is based on the edition of P. Schreiner - "Short Byzantine Chronicles" (Peter Schreiner. Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken. Teil I-III. Wien. 1977-79) - item…

28 August 2022 · 3 min read

Christianity

The icon – an image of the prototype

Written by Yuriy Pushtaev for Foma.ru The word "icon" has a primarily sacred meaning for us today. This is what we call a pictorial representation of the Holy Trinity, the…

28 August 2022 · 6 min read

Christianity

The Meaning of the Arian Controversy

Author: protopresbiter Alexander Schmemann In the Arian controversy, as in a knot, many threads are gathered, many questions are joined. This is the beginning of the great theological controversies in…

28 August 2022 · 18 min read

Christianity

Creation of life

Creation of life - God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs...and fruitful trees, bearing fruit after their kind" (Genesis 1:11). Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth…

26 August 2022 · 7 min read