Religion

Eastern European Forum for Dialogue - BRIDGES in partnership with the Foundation "Plovdiv 2019" for the fifth year (excluding 2020) implements an initiative that aims to work with children of Bulgaria belonging to different religious communities and cultures. This is not just an initiative, but a cause.

reading and analysis of the poetic form of Arius's peculiar "Arian Bible" entitled "Thalia" is found in Rowan Williams and William Bright

Another important document on the decrees of the Council of Nicaea and early Arianism, authored by Emperor Constantine and addressed to Arius, is The Wicked Interpreter - Message of the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea, incipit: Κακὸς ἑρμηνεὺς (The Wicked Interpreter; dating: 333. The document ends with the words "Performed by Syncletius and Gaudentius, magistrates, when Paterius was prefect of Egypt, and was read in the palace." (43.) And on the other hand: May God protect you, beloved.

In the first volume of the magazine Strannik in 1901 appeared an extensive article by B. Titlinov devoted to the decline of religion and morality, a phenomenon we observe today - the beginning of the 21st century of the third millennium.

Being an "Antiochian", Arius chose Alexandria as his field of activity, where he was ordained a presbyter. Here he entered into a dispute with Bishop Alexander and began to preach about the Son of God that He was not born of eternity from the being of God the Father, but was created in time. If He also represents the highest creation of God, through Whom the world was created, but is not equal and is not eternal to the Father, and although He is called the Son, then this is not in essence, but in adoption.

order to make even clearer the condition of mankind in the next epoch, which is a characteristic phenomenon of the remarkable rise of religious feeling, it would be quite useful to turn our attention to the transitional stage connecting the epoch of faith with the preceding period. The vague wanderings in the paths of the philosophical schools, the torturous tension of the spirit tormented by "eternal questions," the eagerly longing to resolve these questions, and the passionate search for truth that flowed from it, are the hallmarks of the transition period.

This becomes even clearer and clearer when we deal with the moral teaching of Stoicism, which has undoubtedly had the strongest influence compared to its theoretical positions. Stoicism created the Buddhist ideal of the serene-calm sage, indifferently watching the stage of life, and in this ideal he sought happiness and satisfaction.

In the first volume of the magazine Strannik in 1901 appeared an extensive article by B. Titlinov devoted to the decline of religion and morality, a phenomenon we observe today - the beginning of the 21st century of the third millennium.

In the first volume of the magazine Strannik in 1901 appeared an extensive article by B. Titlinov devoted to the decline of religion and morality, a phenomenon we observe today - the beginning of the 21st century of the third millennium.

The concept of the classical era "archon" (chief, leader, chief) created the last ferment among the Orthodox Bulgarian people. In Classical Greece, the service of strategists immediately referred us to the princes / archons of ancient Greece, Themistocles, Aristides, and Cimon, the earliest examples of strategists who were both political leaders and generals. Pericles was very often chosen as a strategist during his political career, 443-429. BC From 501, a new rule was introduced for the selection of strategists, who were elected annually, one from each phyla. All ten elected had equal status: at the Marathon in 490 (according to Herodotus) the leadership was decided by a vote and each presided on a daily rotation as a polemarch - supreme commander, but from 496 the polemarch, like the other archons were chosen by lot.

A new method of handwriting analysis, developed by researchers at the University of Groningen, has suggested who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. Testing of the machine learning tool on one of the most famous ancient scrolls reveals that not one, but two scribes are behind the creation of the ancient text, technews.bg reports.

After the regulation of the Arian problem with the first canon, the Second Ecumenical Council in its 2nd Canon emphasized the next main point for the reaction of the anti-Nicaean party against the trampling of the metropolitan autonomy and the authority of the provincial synods / councils as a final court. changing the status of the council convened in Serdica from an ecumenical to a local one, and also limited the appetites of the Roman bishop for supremacy. Pope Damasius (366-384) ratified the Creed at the Second Ecumenical Council, held in Constantinople (381), at which new Trinitarian heresies were exposed, but did not accept only the 3rd canon of the same council, which gave precedence. of the Bishop of Constantinople, on equating the dignity of the Primate of New Rome with that of the Primate of Old Rome.

The bishops of the East were provoked by the term "one in essence" (omousios) defined in Nicaea, as many of them saw in it a revival of the heresy of Sabelius. It is most probable that many of those who took part in the Council of the Eastern Party in Philippopolis had previously participated in the Council of the Sanctification in Antioch in 341, and in Sozomen we find several familiar names: Not only Eusebius took part in this council, who after Paul's expulsion was transferred from Nicomedia to Constantinople, but also .... Theodore of Heraclius (formerly called Perintus) .... and many others ruling the Metropolitan Churches or no less important. "

HRWF (09.07.2021) - On 27 November 2020, the District Court of Hamburg condemned FECRIS (European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Cults and Sect) for defaming the general movement of Jehovah’s Witnesses...

The Eastern bishops, supporters of the semi-Arian party, most of whom were members of the Council of Philippopolis in 343 with the subsequent supreme ecclesiastical forums, express precisely the pre-Nicene conservatism hostile to the term "omousios," an innovation included in the Creed. the Ecumenical Council. This is one of the main reasons and explanations for the high intensity of church councils in the IV century due to the many anti-Trinitarian heresies and false teachings, in particular the teachings of Arius and his derivatives. Heresies seem to be multiplying, which in turn multiplies the convening of pro and contra fairs, each of them.

The church sees a lack of abstinence in remarriage. This defect also affects the person with whom you marry. That is why this rule protects the shepherd from such a reflection and does not allow those who are married to a widow or who have left (divorced) to be accepted in the sacred hierarchy. There was a similar law in the Old Testament church - Judith 16: 22-23: "She was longed for, but the man did not know her until the end of her days, from the day her husband Manasseh died.

As a God-man organism, the Church of Christ evolved according to the historical epoch of codification of individual rules, which right has always belonged to the conciliar conscience of the episcopal college on dogmatic or administrative problems and the adoption of new models in canonical practice.

Breastfed with the pure Orthodox faith, Wulfila bishop of the Goths (student of Ep. Sophilus Gothic, participant in the First Ecumenical Council) accepted the personal invitation of Emperor Theodosius

Christians are obliged to convey the message of God's salvation in Jesus Christ to every person and to every nation. They testify in the context of their neighbors, who live according to other religious beliefs and ideological views. True witness follows Christ in respecting and acknowledging the uniqueness and freedom of others. We must admit that as Christians we have often looked for the worst in others and given a negative assessment of their religions. May we, as Christians, learn to witness to our neighbors in a spirit of humility and joy.

Religious pilgrimage is a sure sign of humanity. According to Romanian Patriarch Daniel, there are many reasons for pilgrimage and it has deep spiritual significance when it is experienced properly and properly understood. The pilgrim is a person who wishes to visit and worship in biblical holy places, tombs of martyrs, relics of saints, miraculous icons or places where famous spiritual elders live.

The author of this text himself St. Archbishop John (Maximovich) of Shanghai Miracle Worker (+1966) was canonized a saint on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Orthodoxy in America in 1994 and his memory is celebrated on July 2 in all Orthodox Sisters-Churches. The text we offer here is from his report to the Council of Bishops in 1950.

The President of Northern Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul on June 19th, where he paid an official visit. On June 26th, he commented for the Macedonian media on the meeting at which the issue of the church status of the Macedonian Church was discussed, saying that it was necessary to talk with the new Serbian Patriarch Porphyry.

After the end of World War II, it became clear that the greatest genocide in human history had taken place - the victims of the Hitlerite regime were 6 million Jews. Following these revelations, it is only natural that society's focus should be on this monstrous crime, on the death camps.

Cappadocia has been a Christian territory for sixteen centuries. In this land one finds that dreamy intimacy of the Byzantine church, the supernatural atmosphere which the Fathers of the Orthodox Church, like Gregory of Nazianzus, wished to see realized in the sanctuary. St. Gregory bequeathed us 244 letters / epistles (Greek Patrology, volume 37), which, like most of his verses, we date to the period of his withdrawal from Arians between 383 and 389. But the two epistles to Presbyterian Cledonius (CI and CII) were written in 382 and were directed against the heresy of the Apollinarians (cf. J. Mossey, Gregoire de Nazianze, - Dictionaire d ”Histoire et de Geographie Ecclesiastique, Fascicule 126, 1987, col. 17-18). A deliberate local church council was convened against Apollinarianism in Rome in 382, ​​in which he took an active part and blah. Jerome. Together with letter CCII (202), they compiled the three "Theological Messages" of the saint, which were thoroughly studied by P. Gallay of the Institute of Scientific-Critical Publishing "Christian Sources" in Paris.

In human society, freedom does not consist in the ability to do whatever you like, it would be an extreme disorder in the State, which would turn into oppression. But it consists in the possibility, thanks to civil laws, to live according to the precepts of eternal law. For those who rule, freedom is not to be able to command indiscriminately and on their whims. This would be criminal for the Church and very harmful for the State. The power of human laws must be such that it is seen as an application of the eternal law, and nothing is decreed that is not contained in the divine law, which is the source of all law - ecclesiastical or state. Very wise bl. Augustine wrote: "I believe that you see well that that civil law has nothing just and lawful that men have not drawn from this eternal law" (On Free Will, Book I, Chapter IV, No. 15).