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1 Types,1| the current problems of Church life.~
2 Types,2| own churches. For many the Church was a vital requirement
3 Types,2| ordinances of the past. The Church was a reliable and recognized
4 Types,2| of glorious regiments. In church it was possible to organize
5 Types,2| some drafty barracks into a church. The existence of the Church
6 Types,2| church. The existence of the Church was essential, but the motivations
7 Types,2| Synodal Period" of the Church. From the time of Peter
8 Types,2| Great our Russian Orthodox Church became an attribute of the
9 Types,2| punished offenses against the Church, and in return demanded
10 Types,2| The State appointed the Church's hierarchs, kept an eye
11 Types,2| administrative tasks to the Church, and made it a party to
12 Types,2| the inner structure of the Church was itself changed. Spiritual
13 Types,2| schooled in the idea that the Church is of utmost importance,
14 Types,2| required. They got married in Church, they baptized their children,
15 Types,2| served Akathists. But the Church was something quite separate
16 Types,2| relationship toward the Church. It is only natural that
17 Types,2| completely from all superficial Church activity, or they simply
18 Types,2| protesting not only against the Church's institutional system but
19 Types,2| institutional system but against the Church itself. This is the origin
20 Types,2| which the official State Church could not offer. It must
21 Types,2| Thus there remained in the Church for the most part either
22 Types,2| organizers, custodians of Church property, official functionaries
23 Types,2| indestructibility of the Orthodox Church and the great Russian State
24 Types,2| and heroic deeds outside church walls. But within the Church
25 Types,2| church walls. But within the Church anything which was different,
26 Types,2| the secularization of the Church is openly proclaimed. This
27 Types,2| a guest appeared in the Church, and not an entirely welcome
28 Types,2| shallowly rooted in the Church's life. It was more a phenomenon
29 Types,2| phenomenon on the fringes of the Church.~Everything changed decisively
30 Types,2| revolution and, in the Church, these changes were reflected
31 Types,2| reflected in the All-Russian Church Council [of 1917-18] and
32 Types,2| these changes were to the Church's historic way of life,
33 Types,2| memories of the Russian Church's Synodal Period, its way
34 Types,2| its understanding of the Church's role and significance
35 Types,2| form the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.] in our
36 Types,2| Outside of Russia.] in our Church lives precisely in accordance
37 Types,2| with this ideology, uniting Church and State, preserving the
38 Types,2| membership in the Orthodox Church and along with this, believe
39 Types,2| with this, believe that the Church is simply a necessary attribute
40 Types,2| current problems of the Church's life. In the first place,
41 Types,2| The future challenges the Church with such complex, new and
42 Types,3| strict ritualism in the Church from the moment of its own
43 Types,3| the living spirit of the Church, its theanthropic, deifying
44 Types,3| likely that this symbol of a Church without a sanctuary is often
45 Types,3| spirit of Christianity, the Church of the eighteenth and nineteenth
46 Types,3| State-sanctioned Synodal Church and not finding any way
47 Types,3| within itself. Outside the Church he knows the spiritual significance
48 Types,3| and day out following the Church's cycle of services. He
49 Types,3| the Cross correctly. In Church he likewise stifles any
50 Types,3| anything is omitted during Church services, because that is
51 Types,3| a fanatical champion of Church Slavonic. For him the use
52 Types,3| him the use of Russian in Church is almost blasphemy. He
53 Types,3| grant that somewhere the Church might become, if not supportive
54 Types,3| spirit and freedom in the Church for many decades.~The main
55 Types,3| and the persecution of the Church, the martyrs in Russia,
56 Types,3| raised by life: whether the Church must live according to the
57 Types,3| is idolatry within the Church, when it replaces Christ'
58 Types,4| slightly only at times when the Church was faced with challenges
59 Types,4| spiritual tension, when the Church was being shaken by internal
60 Types,4| cultural stratum into the Church -- the aesthetic type of
61 Types,4| way into the repertoire of Church singing; church architecture
62 Types,4| repertoire of Church singing; church architecture became better
63 Types,4| Imagining that the foundation of Church life is its beauty, this
64 Types,4| individual, the mystery of the Church belongs only to the elect.
65 Types,4| considerations. The people in the Church are looked upon as either
66 Types,4| influence on the life of the Church in all its aspects. What
67 Types,4| experience turns to the Church with all its aches and pains,
68 Types,4| traditionless strata of society. The Church will be swamped with simple
69 Types,4| with simple people. The Church will be overwhelmed by their
70 Types,4| overwhelmed by their problems. The Church must descend to their level.
71 Types,4| the guardian of all the Church's treasures and truth, and
72 Types,4| its own conception of the Church's beauty, and is incapable
73 Types,4| its understanding of the Church as a fortress, it will guard
74 Types,4| fortress, it will guard the Church against invasion by the
75 Types,4| will appear between the Church and real life. The aesthetically-minded
76 Types,4| necessary -- to approach the Church. And then, within that miserable
77 Types,4| deepen the chasm between the Church and the world. Protected
78 Types,4| will not let him into the church because behind him there
79 Types,4| when the splendor of the Church, its beautiful chant, the
80 Types,4| everything is forbidden to the Church -- whether to preach, to
81 Types,4| cross the threshold of the church and make the appropriate
82 Types,4| barricaded the doors to the Church. How often it happens that,
83 Types,4| faithful, the doors of the church are effectively locked,
84 Types,4| might be better for the Church if it did not have official
85 Types,5| periods in the life of the Church which have not been imbued
86 Types,5| never died out within the Church. There have been periods
87 Types,5| powerful than this is the Church's teaching about spiritual
88 Types,5| authentic Christian life. The Church crowns her saints and martyrs,
89 Types,5| eternal blessedness. The Church teaches that the Kingdom
90 Types,5| within the experience of the Church.~There have been whole periods
91 Types,5| persons, collect alms for the Church, or preach the teaching
92 Types,5| play in the life of the Church? Perhaps this question needs
93 Types,6| within the bosom of the Church, shining for us in the faces
94 Types,6| righteous people outside the Church. (Here one must immediately
95 Types,6| this up with hatred of the Church, and then proclaimed this
96 Types,6| framework of a certain rhythm of church piety, the subordination
97 Types,6| life, even elements of the Church's ustav. "Christianization,"
98 Types,7| accomplishment is the Eucharist, the Church's most valuable treasure,
99 Types,7| if at the center of the Church's life there is this sacrificial,
100 Types,7| love, then where are the Church's boundaries, where is the
101 Types,7| the Divine Liturgy beyond church walls. What does this mean?
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