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1 Types,7 | life) for his friends" (Jn. 15:13). How miserly and greedy
2 Types,AboutAuthor| Paris-based journal, Vestnik, No. 176 (II-III 1997), pp. 5-50,
3 Types,2 | Church Council [of 1917-18] and the restoration of
4 Types,5 | Pushkin, published in the 1830s and based on John Wilson'
5 Types,2 | Karlovci, Serbia, who after 1921 declared themselves administratively
6 Types,AboutAuthor| adopted city, Paris, where in 1932 she had founded a house
7 Types,AboutAuthor| following essay was written in 1937 and discovered in 1996 by
8 Types,AboutAuthor| Skobtsova died on Good Friday, 1945, in Ravensbrück concentration
9 Types,AboutAuthor| in 1937 and discovered in 1996 by Helene Klepinin-Arjakovsky
10 Types,AboutAuthor| Vestnik, No. 176 (II-III 1997), pp. 5-50, and is also
11 Types,AboutAuthor| published in the summer of 1998 by the Paris-based journal,
12 Types,7 | wisdom of God" (1 Cor. 1:24).~We who are called to be
13 Types,AboutAuthor| 176 (II-III 1997), pp. 5-50, and is also posted on the
14 Types,7 | sake of my brethren" (Rom. 9:3). And he said this, having
15 Types,3 | account all the misfortune, abandonment, neglect and exhaustion
16 Types,5 | goodness. The world may abide in sin, it may tear itself
17 Types,7 | there two Christs: one who abides in blessedness within the
18 Types,4 | them that exalted gift, the ability to admire beauty.~But life
19 Types,4 | to preach, and to spread abroad the Lord's love. One thing
20 Types,5 | an impenetrable wall of absent love? No matter what their
21 Types,7 | himself. That from which he absented himself he obtains anew,
22 Types,7 | he receive that gift? By absenting himself from Christ in an
23 Types,3 | Schism grew out of it and absorbed its strengths into itself.
24 Types,2 | government institutions, absorbing into itself the government'
25 Types,7 | called to persecution and abuse -- we know that this is
26 Types,7 | to us by the persecuted, abused, disdained and humiliated
27 Types,7 | material world, it is even less acceptable in the spiritual realm.~
28 Types,2 | instead of both, was the accepted military stance, eagerly
29 Types,4 | it, not to disturb it. He accepts its general rhythm, but
30 Types,7 | has at all times lived by accommodating itself to the laws of material
31 Types,7 | world, and the form of its accomplishment is the Eucharist, the Church'
32 Types,2 | Church lives precisely in accordance with this ideology, uniting
33 Types,5 | and thus its task is to accumulate, consolidate, preserve,
34 Types,5 | it at interest. Further accumulation makes one more and more
35 Types,7 | wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ
36 Types,4 | the Church with all its aches and pains, with all its
37 Types,3 | real roots. Much can be achieved with this method: a very
38 Types,5 | anthroposophy. Their aim is the acquisition of spiritual power. Asceticism
39 | across
40 Types,6 | which truly is my real and actual essence or being, is the
41 | actually
42 Types,5 | himself all the stain of Adam's sin and is called to salvation
43 Types,6 | precepts from the Gospel, added to this its own distorted
44 Types,3 | however, which should be addressed to strict ritualism is this:
45 Types,2 | Chief Procurator, assigned administrative tasks to the Church, and
46 Types,2 | 1921 declared themselves administratively independent of St. Tikhon,
47 Types,2 | magnificent temples, superb administrators and organizers, custodians
48 Types,4 | exalted gift, the ability to admire beauty.~But life itself
49 Types,4 | delights in the ancient chants, admires the severity and restraint
50 Types,5 | experience, nor does it advance him on his inner path. It
51 Types,7 | should not greedily seek advantage for our soul, but that we
52 Types,4 | Baptists, Evangelicals, Adventists, etc. -- who will offer
53 Types,4 | talent of others. These aesthetes, who were subtle critics
54 Types,4 | Church and real life. The aesthetically-minded custodians of grandeur will
55 Types,5 | social ills which have not affected contemporary life. Yet at
56 Types,2 | grouping which lacks a creative agenda can expect to succeed. Moreover,
57 Types,4 | Our harsh, stressful and agonizing life experience turns to
58 Types,3 | love? Is this what most alarms these islands of the elect,
59 Types,6 | of the Good News, always alive within the bosom of the
60 Types,7 | Christ. This alone is our all-consuming Christian calling.~And this,
61 Types,2 | not only branches of the All-Forces Union, but its own churches.
62 Types,4 | impulse toward immobility, an all-out search for a rhythm of external,
63 Types,2 | the spiritual life. The all-powerful arm of the State was extended
64 Types,2 | changes were reflected in the All-Russian Church Council [of 1917-
65 Types,6 | leads us into the blind alley of an anti-Christian humanism,
66 Types,3 | tamed and driven into the allotted cages. Here the success
67 Types,2 | treat them as inferior, not allowing them entry into so-called "
68 Types,5 | leprous persons, collect alms for the Church, or preach
69 Types,3 | organize a benefit, build almshouses and put on dinners for his
70 | Although
71 | amongst
72 Types,4 | suppression of that flame, almost amounting to spiritual suicide, which
73 Types,7 | between "I" and "we." All this amounts to a passionate love of
74 Types,5 | demands a most profound analysis of self, a struggle against
75 Types,3 | near a cool place.~If one analyzes this special phenomenon,
76 Types,5 | who am nothing, wounded by ancestral sin, covered with sores
77 Types,4 | hymns, the Great Canon of Andrew of Crete, etc. Often the
78 Types,3 | the minutest detail. He is angry and indignant if anything
79 Types,5 | against which they set their animate "I." In this sense we see
80 Types,4 | seamless robe, who will announce to the crowd that hatred
81 Types,4 | worship, or as tedious and annoying barbarians who, by their
82 Types,3 | one; for example, when the Annunciation falls during the last days
83 Types,5 | teachings, of theosophy and anthroposophy. Their aim is the acquisition
84 Types,5 | religious life was actually anti-ascetic.~Bearing this in mind, it
85 Types,6 | into the blind alley of an anti-Christian humanism, out of which the
86 Types,2 | This is the origin of the anti-religious fanaticism of our revolutionaries,
87 Types,3 | reforged all the turbulent and antinomian vibrancy of the Byzantine
88 Types,1 | personal sympathies and antipathies, one's own spiritual path.
89 Types,5 | believe in any of this -- and anyway, they are completely satisfied
90 | anywhere
91 Types,2 | believing that man evolved from apes. Thus it was possible to
92 Types,6 | God then becomes truly apophatic, having only negative attributes,
93 Types,7 | apart from their outward appearance, these two forms of love
94 Types,2 | century. Suddenly a guest appeared in the Church, and not an
95 Types,5 | all these variations are applicable everywhere and do not point
96 Types,5 | developing them and being able to apply them. It does not look for
97 Types,4 | friends who understand and appreciate its values, and enemies,
98 Types,4 | Rublev and others began to be appreciated. The ancient chant began
99 Types,4 | to detect. Beauty and the appreciation of beauty are always the
100 Types,4 | the church and make the appropriate response to the beauty of
101 Types,4 | antiquity, with a kind of archaeology. It is not surprising, therefore,
102 Types,2 | expression of the synodal architectural craftsmanship -- were overwhelming
103 Types,4 | of Church singing; church architecture became better known thanks
104 Types,AboutAuthor| Klepinin-Arjakovsky in the archive of S.B. Pilenko. The Russian
105 Types,2 | businesslike cathedral archpriests thoroughly familiar with
106 Types,7 | left of me to save.~In this area, however, the laws of spiritual
107 Types,3 | which is manifested in arguments over calendars, rubrics,
108 Types,4 | an abstract, measured and arid form and beauty. In a sense
109 Types,4 | godless world, there will arise -- if they have not arisen
110 Types,2 | spiritual life. The all-powerful arm of the State was extended
111 Types,2 | after social order, the armed forces, finances, etc.~The
112 Types,3 | understanding of piety into the arms of ritual correctness, placing
113 | around
114 Types,Intro | is not his own. In this article I can only say that I wish
115 Types,4 | type of popular, peasant artistry. From this there develops
116 Types,4 | catalogers, but not by creative artists.~Creativity, even that which
117 Types,2 | ideas, nor in the field of arts, nor in the way of life.
118 Types,7 | love. Christianity should ascend the Cross on behalf of the
119 Types,5 | genuine and clear line of real ascent, of refinement, of development.
120 Types,1 | ritualist; (3) esthetical; (4) ascetical; (5) evangelical.~To be
121 Types,7 | nothing for yourself. Lay aside not only material wealth
122 Types,7 | her children. One needs to ask the question: what is it
123 Types,5 | very great -- I am only asking him for "sleep peaceful
124 Types,2 | was in harmony with each aspect of the epoch's churchmanship,
125 Types,2 | is not important how we assess such a religious type. Only
126 Types,4 | value of that material is assessed, and, if there isn't any,
127 Types,4 | subtly and so intensely assessing the works of others. This
128 Types,2 | of the Chief Procurator, assigned administrative tasks to
129 Types,5 | to the extent that love assists me in my salvation, to that
130 Types,7 | communion with each other. It assumes consent to the exclamation: "
131 Types,2 | return; there is no basis for assuming that the psychology which
132 Types,3 | directive, easily, with astounding and incomprehensible ease,
133 Types,2 | our own intense form of atheism. These people, as Soloviev
134 Types,5 | of this world and of all attachment to them. It is obedience,
135 Types,3 | their victory, for having attained their aims. Having once
136 Types,5 | cease to be a method for attaining higher spiritual values
137 Types,5 | are directed toward the attainment of special attributes of
138 Types,5 | come to know clearly and attentively all one's sins, all one'
139 Types,2 | discover the origin of such an attitude, it isn't hard to find its
140 Types,2 | its inner meaning did not attract much attention. The important
141 Types,4 | there develops a subtle attraction toward specific portions
142 Types,5 | in its deceptive and yet attractive type of holiness. What can
143 Types,4 | exhaustion, acquires an aura of beauty, inviting admiration
144 Types,3 | being disenchanted. The austere and rarefied air of sacrificial
145 Types,5 | mature fruit of a true and authentic Christian life. The Church
146 Types,3 | the world has a thirst for authoritative leaders who can lead a blind
147 Types,4 | doubts. In this way the authorities, with their requirements,
148 Types,2 | became an attribute of the autocratic Russian State, one department
149 Types,7 | who lays down his soul (AV, RSV: life) for his friends" (
150 Types,7 | renunciation or a basic absence of avarice. Here it is a question of
151 Types,5 | frightening phenomenon that can await anyone. And it is especially
152 Types,3 | long period of development awaits it.~It must be noted here
153 Types,7 | of love she will be more aware of other children's misfortunes,
154 Types,5 | prayer for what are really awful and frightful gifts. And
155 Types,AboutAuthor| Klepinin-Arjakovsky in the archive of S.B. Pilenko. The Russian text
156 Types,7 | was in him something held back, some "holy of holies" which
157 Types,2 | bayonets and regimental banners, but portable churches with
158 Types,4 | shallowness and mediocrity -- Baptists, Evangelicals, Adventists,
159 Types,2 | married in Church, they baptized their children, buried their
160 Types,4 | as tedious and annoying barbarians who, by their ignorance,
161 Types,7 | spiritually we should be stripped bare. There should be nothing
162 Types,2 | in converting some drafty barracks into a church. The existence
163 Types,4 | their requirements, have barricaded the doors to the Church.
164 Types,3 | phenomenon, it becomes clear that basically it does not depend on Eastern
165 Types,7 | the end in his spit-upon, battered, humiliated and crucified
166 Types,2 | miserable baggage, not only its bayonets and regimental banners,
167 Types,5 | was actually anti-ascetic.~Bearing this in mind, it seems to
168 Types,4 | splendor of the Church, its beautiful chant, the harmony and order
169 Types,7 | unbroken ruble given to a beggar, but it grows and becomes
170 Types,2 | orderly system had already begun to show cracks by the end
171 Types,3 | what to fight for, how to behave oneself, how to speak, how
172 Types,5 | modify a person's normal behavior and are directed toward
173 Types,5 | than it are the words: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord."
174 Types,7 | and of Christ-like human beings for the sins of the world.
175 Types,2 | for their friends while believing that man evolved from apes.
176 Types,2 | current and was persecuted and belittled. This ecclesiastical psychology
177 Types,2 | end in a window-rattling bellow, showing off the mighty
178 Types,2 | Caesaro-papism. Not everyone who belonged to the synodal psychology
179 Types,5 | salvation, to that extent it is beneficial for me. But it must immediately
180 Types,3 | He might even organize a benefit, build almshouses and put
181 Types,5 | the external and material benefits of worldly success. What
182 Types,5 | love, but a means for the benefitting of my own soul. Such an
183 Types,3 | be sure, acts of love and benevolence enter into the rhythm of
184 Types,AboutAuthor| concentration camp near Berlin. The "crime" of this Orthodox
185 Types,5 | sake of exercise, is at best a working-out of a simple
186 Types,6 | than the correction of the bestial cruelty of man's history
187 Types,5 | am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the
188 Types,6 | where it will," but woe betide those ages and those peoples
189 Types,4 | truth, and is incapable of betraying, lowering or changing its
190 Types,3 | world is frightening when it betrays Christ in the name of the
191 Types,3 | even managed to dry up its Biblical heritage, ossifying it and
192 Types,2 | Gospels, with its heavy binding, and he read it in such
193 Types,2 | group [endnote: The group of bishops, priests and faithful, based
194 Types,4 | pain, the struggle, the bitterness, the ugliness of life. They
195 Types,3 | behind the iconostasis is a blank wall, to which the iconostasis
196 Types,3 | Russian in Church is almost blasphemy. He loves Slavonic because
197 Types,5 | completely satisfied with the blessings of this age. But this stagnation,
198 Types,6 | to a kind of a deaf-mute blindness with respect to the divine
199 Types,7 | love of one's own which blinds one's vision, forcing one
200 Types,7 | receives in return eternal bliss, the divine gift of possessing
201 Types,7 | means that we must offer the bloodless sacrifice, the sacrifice
202 Types,6 | religious consciousness "blows where it will," but woe
203 Types,5 | understanding. It can be boldly stated that spiritual ego-centrist
204 Types,2 | deacon could hardly lift the book of the Gospels, with its
205 Types,7 | the divine is so closely bound up with our communion with
206 Types,5 | time we are surrounded by boundless self-satisfaction, a total
207 Types,3 | moment during services, he bows and crosses himself at the
208 Types,2 | stance, eagerly imitated by boys and any other male with
209 Types,2 | soil, it set up not only branches of the All-Forces Union,
210 Types,5 | I am become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And
211 Types,5 | just one step, one hair's breadth from religious contrition
212 Types,5 | market gains? How can he break through, trample and destroy
213 Types,3 | able to teach you how to breathe, in what position to maintain
214 Types,4 | two factors converged -- a bright and talented outburst of
215 Types,3 | the special technique for bringing oneself to a particular
216 Types,6 | compatible with me, which broadens me, which explains me --
217 Types,6 | not seen, if you hate your brother whom you have seen" (1 Jn.
218 Types,7 | Christ in the name of one's brothers. It is the denial of oneself.
219 Types,3 | even organize a benefit, build almshouses and put on dinners
220 Types,3 | any challenge will be a burden beyond its strength; it
221 Types,2 | Russia through provincial bureaucratic centers to the local representatives
222 Types,2 | baptized their children, buried their dead, stood through
223 Types,5 | taken away from the one who buries it and is given to the one
224 Types,5 | substance that you cannot burn through. Will he provide
225 Types,5 | though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it
226 Types,3 | the most vital, the most burning issue of the day, is the
227 Types,2 | different sort: rectors, calm, businesslike cathedral archpriests thoroughly
228 Types,3 | people far removed from our bustle and our sins, a world of
229 Types,3 | adopted many things from Byzantium, but somehow managed to
230 Types,2 | and continuing to preach Caesaro-papism. Not everyone who belonged
231 Types,5 | quandary: on which side of the café table should he sit? How
232 Types,3 | driven into the allotted cages. Here the success of ritualism
233 Types,3 | does it regard the present calamities which are tearing us apart,
234 Types,3 | of the Old or New Style Calendar in divine services. It is
235 Types,3 | manifested in arguments over calendars, rubrics, rules and prohibitions --
236 Types,2 | different sort: rectors, calm, businesslike cathedral
237 Types,3 | the person to whom Christ came down? If it can be granted
238 Types,AboutAuthor| Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin. The "crime"
239 Types,2 | censer or seven-branched candle stand out of empty food
240 Types,4 | individual hymns, the Great Canon of Andrew of Crete, etc.
241 Types,3 | Orthodoxy -- traditional, canon-based, patristic and paternal
242 Types,7 | interest but keeps hold of the capital. Here we are speaking about
243 Types,2 | the "White" idea, etc. It carried with it not only its own
244 Types,5 | To feast during a plague carries with it its own enormous
245 Types,5 | not lie in the methods of carrying out the ascetic ideal in
246 Types,6 | however, this is not the case, if indeed there is desire
247 Types,5 | should he sit? How can he cast light on the nature of today'
248 Types,4 | collectors, experts and catalogers, but not by creative artists.~
249 Types,4 | was faced with challenges causing great spiritual tension,
250 Types,7 | beneath the vaults of that cave in Bethlehem. There are
251 Types,3 | permitted, and the chaos ceases to torment it. It knows
252 Types,7 | corroborated each day in the celebration of the Eucharist. Such is
253 Types,2 | were turned into official cells of the overall ecclesiastical
254 Types,2 | expended in fashioning a censer or seven-branched candle
255 Types,3 | eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has not been able to extirpate
256 Types,2 | Communion, since without such a certificate the functionary could not
257 Types,2 | State-sanctioned religiosity, with certificates being issued to civil functionaries
258 Types,2 | issued to civil functionaries certifying that they had been to Confession
259 Types,5 | but simply because it is challenging and demands an effort. It
260 Types,3 | certainly is a fanatical champion of Church Slavonic. For
261 Types,5 | have notable and saintly champions, that both views enjoy incontrovertible
262 Types,4 | services. What is this? Chance? Something the Soviets overlooked?
263 Types,2 | control, or those who could channel their spiritual needs into
264 Types,2 | grow.~Here everything is channeled toward conservation, to
265 Types,4 | pithy sayings and, at times, chaotic style would serve to guarantee
266 Types,5 | Christianity is not alone in being characterized by the presence of asceticism.
267 Types,4 | to teach, to carry out charitable works or any organized activity,
268 Types,4 | starry-eyed idealism and charlatanism. But the opiate will have
269 Types,6 | times simply entertains and charms me. If, however, this is
270 Types,7 | moment, in the midst of this cheerless and despairing world, we
271 Types,2 | activities with the help of the Chief Procurator, assigned administrative
272 Types,2 | costly vestments. Colossal choirs performed special Italianate
273 Types,6 | immediately disappear and I should choose to follow Christ in spite
274 Types,4 | external forms. Thus he chose Orthodoxy for the beauty
275 Types,7 | sacrifice of Christ and of Christ-like human beings for the sins
276 Types,6 | Gospel to the whole world.~"Christification," however, is based on the
277 Types,6 | path? It is a desire to "Christify" all of life. To a certain
278 Types,2 | called for to overdo one's churchiness. This was perhaps done only
279 Types,6 | certain specific elements of "churchliness" into one's way of life,
280 Types,5 | the evening goes to the cinema. There is no talk of the
281 Types,5 | But it knows that in this circumscribed world of nature not everything
282 Types,1 | determined by the diverse circumstances of its origin. A person
283 Types,2 | conquered Christ, not in the circus arena, not in the catacombs,
284 Types,3 | fact, we have today two citadels of such an Orthodoxy --
285 Types,2 | certificates being issued to civil functionaries certifying
286 Types,6 | immediately introduce a clarification so as to prevent well-intentioned
287 Types,7 | in the four Gospels and clarified in the Epistles. It is continually
288 Types,5 | the people apart; there is class hatred and a decline in
289 Types,1 | one makes an attempt to classify this variety into more or
290 Types,5 | obedience demands that I clean out stables, dig for potatoes,
291 Types,4 | demolishing something, and clearing a place for something new.
292 Types,5 | self-sacrificing souls, for those closest to the Kingdom of heaven.
293 Types,2 | iconostases made out of cloth stretched over wooden frames,
294 Types,4 | me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and
295 Types,4 | who, by their ignorance, clumsiness and, occasionally, by their
296 Types,2 | traditions, not wanting to take cognizance of the new conditions of
297 Types,5 | we see that opposites do coincide. We see here at both extremes
298 Types,5 | comparisons, some surprising coincidences. For such a diametrical
299 Types,3 | services when a fixed feast coincides with a movable one; for
300 Types,5 | you will feel a certain coldness, an extraordinary spiritual
301 Types,5 | look after leprous persons, collect alms for the Church, or
302 Types,4 | shared by museum curators, collectors, experts and catalogers,
303 Types,2 | doors and costly vestments. Colossal choirs performed special
304 Types,3 | magic of the word and of combinations of words, of gestures and
305 Types,7 | God's help and at God's command, we deny ourselves, whenever
306 Types,5 | obedience, for we are called and commanded to love -- and we must love.~
307 Types,2 | The important thing was to commemorate the anniversaries of the
308 Types,7 | in communion with him he communes with Christ himself. That
309 Types,7 | of her own child is not comparable with the merit of other
310 Types,5 | can one say? How can one compare one's own lukewarm state,
311 Types,5 | there will be some strange comparisons, some surprising coincidences.
312 Types,5 | provokes perplexity rather than compassion. And this produces still
313 Types,6 | that in the other which is compatible with me, which broadens
314 Types,3 | especially delights in the complexity of services when a fixed
315 Types,1 | has its own, at times very complicated history, its own coming
316 Types,4 | world's beauty, will not comprehend Christ's beauty, and will
317 Types,AboutAuthor| Friday, 1945, in Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin. The "crime"
318 Types,4 | lowering or changing its own conception of the Church's beauty,
319 Types,5 | two completely different conceptions which lead to different
320 Types,3 | to Christ's commandments concerning love for God and love for
321 Types,5 | Christianity. This conflict concerns the most essential, the
322 Types,7 | fullness.~This is the only conclusion we can come to from the
323 Types,4 | other revolutionary. What conclusions can we draw about the future
324 Types,2 | and in return demanded condemnation for offenses against the
325 Types,6 | love for man, however, is condemned: "You hypocrite, how can
326 Types,2 | respect for one's elders, a condescending concern for one's juniors,
327 Types,4 | of iconography. He will condescendingly take note of the somewhat
328 Types,7 | with him the path of God's condescension to humanity.~What was Christ'
329 Types,2 | take cognizance of the new conditions of life and continuing to
330 Types,5 | violence, by force. This is confessed by Christians of all convictions
331 Types,5 | her passion-bearers and confessors with the incorruptible crown
332 Types,3 | wheatmeal loaves] to those confined in prison. He might even
333 Types,5 | is possible, within its confines, to attain power and control
334 Types,5 | somehow consumed in the conflagration of my soul.~This particular
335 Types,2 | remotest -- real or imagined -- connection with the military. (Translator)],
336 Types,2 | Through it the Roman emperor conquered Christ, not in the circus
337 Types,5 | life may be, within their conscience there always exists that
338 Types,5 | obliged to carry them out conscientiously if they are given to him
339 Types,7 | love them while remaining conscious of one's service through
340 Types,2 | everything is channeled toward conservation, to the preservation of
341 Types,4 | creative individual: one is conservative, the other revolutionary.
342 Types,3 | to the rules. Such people consider themselves in good spiritual
343 Types,2 | officer present. Very often a considerable degree of ingenuity and
344 Types,4 | eventually displace all other considerations. The people in the Church
345 Types,2 | functionary could not be considered a loyal subject from the
346 Types,5 | its task is to accumulate, consolidate, preserve, expand and utilize
347 Types,5 | determined by the principle of consolidating one's natural talents, developing
348 Types,6 | two commandments, which contain within themselves the totality
349 Types,3 | Believer meeting house. It contains everything which they have
350 Types,4 | only that cold, exacting contempt for the profane crowd and
351 Types,5 | despair. There is only utter contentment and total spiritual quiescence.
352 Types,7 | can be interpreted in the context of other evangelical texts.
353 Types,7 | reflections of her own tastes, the continuation of her family. Then it becomes
354 Types,4 | iconostasis. The singing will continue to resound, clouds of incense
355 Types,2 | new conditions of life and continuing to preach Caesaro-papism.
356 Types,5 | relationship to asceticism which is contrary to Christianity has been
357 Types,6 | degree this notion can be contrasted to that which is understood
358 Types,5 | outer world, nor does it contribute anything to the content
359 Types,5 | s breadth from religious contrition and enlightenment. In it
360 Types,7 | judge those who follow other conventional, non-sacrificial paths,
361 Types,3 | in opposition to official conventionality. Ritual correctness has
362 Types,4 | century, when two factors converged -- a bright and talented
363 Types,1 | believers, you enter into conversation with them and read the various
364 Types,2 | of empty food tins, or in converting some drafty barracks into
365 Types,5 | confessed by Christians of all convictions and persuasions. And as
366 Types,2 | might say, before it had cooled down after its struggle,
367 Types,4 | how good is his voice, how coordinated are his movements, etc.
368 Types,2 | State to look after the correct performance of religious
369 Types,6 | as nothing more than the correction of the bestial cruelty of
370 Types,3 | makes the sign of the Cross correctly. In Church he likewise stifles
371 Types,2 | this psychology has any correlation with the current problems
372 Types,7 | preaching of the Gospel, corroborated each day in the celebration
373 Types,5 | somehow degenerates, becomes corrupt, is consumed in flames.
374 Types,5 | sinfulness. Not only the cosmos as a whole and all human
375 Types,2 | immense royal doors and costly vestments. Colossal choirs
376 Types,2 | in the All-Russian Church Council [of 1917-18] and the restoration
377 Types,4 | the Russian people, cannot count on a numerically widespread
378 Types,5 | of plague, one as a rule counts one's daily earnings and
379 Types,3 | throws over the chaos a solid cover of what is prescribed, what
380 Types,2 | had already begun to show cracks by the end of the nineteenth
381 Types,2 | the synodal architectural craftsmanship -- were overwhelming in
382 Types,4 | what is old, but also to create something new, respond to
383 Types,4 | everything that has already been created, everything that is old,
384 Types,2 | This system led to the creation of a special religious psychology,
385 Types,4 | Great Canon of Andrew of Crete, etc. Often the artistic
386 Types,7 | scabs and its sores. It so cries out to Christianity in the
387 Types,4 | festering sores, in our crippled souls -- does he not see
388 Types,4 | divine service.~Aesthetic criteria gradually replace the spiritual
389 Types,4 | aesthetes, who were subtle critics and experts in the most
390 Types,7 | Christian path, for that cross-bearing challenge which faces every
391 Types,3 | during services, he bows and crosses himself at the proper time.
392 Types,5 | time we are surrounded by crowds of people who are oblivious
393 Types,5 | confessors with the incorruptible crown of eternal life. It promises
394 Types,2 | And the cathedrals -- the crowning expression of the synodal
395 Types,5 | Christian life. The Church crowns her saints and martyrs,
396 Types,2 | with such complex, new and crucial problems that it is difficult
397 Types,4 | essence something rather crude. Creativity, which aims
398 Types,6 | correction of the bestial cruelty of man's history through
399 Types,5 | likewise appear. One is crushed by one's own impotence;
400 Types,2 | gilt and marble, with huge cupolas, resonant echoes, immense
401 Types,4 | psychology shared by museum curators, collectors, experts and
402 Types,5 | But it must immediately be curbed and curtailed if it does
403 Types,5 | immediately be curbed and curtailed if it does not enrich but
404 Types,5 | it at a certain level a curtain-like firmament is tightly stretched,
405 Types,2 | education, through habit and custom, but in no way can one acquire
406 Types,5 | sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift
407 Types,5 | one as a rule counts one's daily earnings and in the evening
408 Types,7 | cannot, should not even dare to show a distorted, diminished,
409 Types,7 | a distorted, diminished, darkened image of itself. Christianity
410 Types,2 | gold and silver covers. The deacon could hardly lift the book
411 Types,2 | their children, buried their dead, stood through prayers of
412 Types,6 | ourselves to a kind of a deaf-mute blindness with respect to
413 Types,3 | following period. We are dealing here with belief in a particular
414 Types,3 | everything which they have held dear throughout their whole history.
415 Types,2 | anniversaries of the tragic deaths of national heroes or the
416 Types,3 | freedom in the Church for many decades.~The main question, however,
417 Types,5 | been periods of decline and decay, stagnant and undistinguished.
418 Types,5 | purity, its intensity, in its deceptive and yet attractive type
419 Types,2 | Church.~Everything changed decisively from the moment of the February [
420 Types,2 | Serbia, who after 1921 declared themselves administratively
421 Types,4 | effect. And it will further deepen the chasm between the Church
422 Types,5 | At the same time, at its deepest, creative life is also a
423 Types,2 | Period saw a completely defeatist treatment of the clergy,
424 Types,4 | all these reasons it will defend its understanding of the
425 Types,4 | any aesthetic stance. When defending aesthetic values, a person
426 Types,3 | and even death not only in defense of the two-fingered sign
427 Types,Intro | objectivity when classifying and defining these types, because in
428 Types,3 | almost universal thirst for definite, concrete directives of
429 Types,5 | of the spirit. The only definition of self which is more powerful
430 Types,7 | smooth all paths before him, deflect all obstacles and all rivals.
431 Types,4 | follow a crowd of people deformed by sin, by ugliness, drunkenness,
432 Types,5 | lovingly given away somehow degenerates, becomes corrupt, is consumed
433 Types,5 | numbness, to the complete degeneration and destruction of one's
434 Types,6 | for all, destining it for deification, but the Word of God, as
435 Types,7 | flesh from the world, he deifies this human flesh, he gives
436 Types,3 | Church, its theanthropic, deifying sacramental life. Only the
437 Types,6 | prevent well-intentioned or deliberate misinterpretations of the
438 Types,4 | inviting admiration and delight. Love is a very dangerous
439 Types,4 | protected by a sense of delusion and hatred of the world,
440 Types,2 | the Church, and in return demanded condemnation for offenses
441 Types,7 | expiation of our sins, as if demanding from the world this sacrifice
442 Types,4 | something, rejecting something, demolishing something, and clearing
443 Types,2 | predominates. This is easy to demonstrate if we bear in mind that
444 Types,2 | to organize solemn, sober demonstrations of one's unity, one's loyalty.
445 Types,7 | one's brothers. It is the denial of oneself. And this is
446 Types,5 | about anything.~Will he denounce them? But they are quite
447 Types,5 | for him to find words of denunciation, of summons, and of love.~
448 Types,2 | of intercession for the departed, kneel on one knee during
449 Types,2 | autocratic Russian State, one department among other departments,
450 Types,2 | one department among other departments, and took its place in the
451 Types,4 | to see how Christ himself departs, quietly and invisibly,
452 Types,3 | that basically it does not depend on Eastern Christianity,
453 Types,5 | than anyone else. Should he depict for them the coming judgement
454 Types,4 | by ugliness, drunkenness, depravity and hate. Then their chant
455 Types,2 | passionate fury at having been deprived of the ideals of that great
456 Types,7 | takes everything from us, deprives us of everything, almost
457 Types,3 | heritage, ossifying it and depriving it of its grace-filled,
458 Types,3 | incomprehensible syllables. Like the dervish, it knows the power of a
459 Types,3 | the distinctive forms of Dervishism and echoes of Hinduism and,
460 Types,4 | problems. The Church must descend to their level. This would
461 Types,4 | iconography were defined and described; Rublev and others began
462 Types,6 | his own human language, describing in human words God's truth,
463 Types,4 | produced long and moving descriptions of Orthodoxy's beauty. Even
464 Types,7 | our" earthly passions and desires. Another kind of love, however,
465 Types,7 | midst of this cheerless and despairing world, we already taste
466 Types,4 | the poor, the lepers, the desperate, the embittered, the holy
467 Types,6 | sanctified it once and for all, destining it for deification, but
468 Types,3 | teachings, heresies perhaps, the destitution, the destruction and the
469 Types,4 | their everyday labors have destroyed in them that exalted gift,
470 Types,7 | victoriously, overcoming and destroying all its enemies. Or one
471 Types,4 | with the new, and often destroys the old. The psychology
472 Types,5 | who thirsts for ascetic detachment and heroic effort (podvig)
473 Types,AboutAuthor| house of hospitality. (For a detailed life, see Fr. Sergei Hackel'
474 Types,4 | experts in the most minute details and nuances of the various
475 Types,4 | characteristics are quite easy to detect. Beauty and the appreciation
476 Types,3 | well-being, toward the utter determinacy and legitimacy of its inner
477 Types,3 | the strict ritualist path determine its growth in our times.
478 Types,7 | everything, almost as if it were devastating us. And where does it lead?
479 Types,5 | consolidating one's natural talents, developing them and being able to apply
480 Types,3 | any impulse, permits no deviation from the established gestures.
481 Types,5 | Love is the same kind of devout exercise, the same kind
482 Types,5 | must exercise to achieve dexterity, just as a wrestler must
483 Types,5 | coincidences. For such a diametrical opposition of one's "I"
484 Types,3 | existence of the most frightful dictatorship that ever existed, a tyranny
485 Types,5 | freedom, the revolutions and dictatorships which are tearing the people
486 Types,4 | downcast, will cause hope to die. For some this enveloping
487 Types,5 | over, maintain a special diet, sensibly schedule his time,
488 Types,5 | inner purpose. The basic differences are to be found in what
489 Types,5 | that I clean out stables, dig for potatoes, look after
490 Types,2 | have to be searched for diligently, since the "official" type
491 Types,7 | this path all others grow dim and hazy. One must not,
492 Types,7 | dare to show a distorted, diminished, darkened image of itself.
493 Types,7 | which is poured out never diminishes the source of that love,
494 Types,3 | build almshouses and put on dinners for his poorer brethren.
495 Types,7 | different ways. And one can direct two kinds of love toward
496 Types,5 | normal behavior and are directed toward the attainment of
497 Types,5 | approached from the opposite direction. The more horrible and sinful
498 Types,5 | this type follow specific directions, must exercise, must repeat
499 Types,4 | and affirmation, is always discarding something, rejecting something,
500 Types,5 | of a simple submission to disciplinary challenges and is, of course,
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