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Chapter
501 1 | Christian Martyrs, trans by Herbert Musurillo, Oxford, The Clarendon
502 | Herein
503 3 | Judaism. It was one of the few heresies which has shaken Orthodoxy
504 3 | not without resistance and hesitation, the Russian nation rejected
505 3 | the Church, it is simply hidden from him. ~The Catholic
506 1 | is guilty? yes, speaking historically about Jewish guilt and Christian
507 1 | Borovoy, is a problem of historicity of truth. Yes, it is true
508 Conclu| say, one may be "black", "homosexual", "middle-class" American)
509 3 | killed in this revolts, houses of landowners were burned,
510 Conclu| in this situation, some "humanists" say that there is no such
511 2 | same. It is true that only humility can bring us to that height.
512 1 | services in the words of the hymns. Russians, on their part,
513 2 | were Jews. Herein lies an ideological source of hatred, of anti-Semitism.
514 Conclu| other societies, with other ideologies, because there can be only
515 1 | in 1917, this small but ideologocally strong group was large enough
516 3 | the Jews who worshipped idols or violated the Law were
517 3 | Sinai, and of the prophet Ilijah are the best examples of
518 Conclu| that Orthodoxy is seriously ill. ~And it is of special importance,
519 Conclu| human being, a person, an image of God, what matter how
520 3 | towards the spirit (the images of Moses, climbing the Sinai,
521 2 | common suffering... It is imaginable, and I expect, that Jews
522 1 | Judaism, ed. by Malcolm Lowe, Immanuel 26/27, 1994). Characterising
523 1 | Russia may have different implications than similar figures, say,
524 2 | seems that history itself imposes upon them the necessity
525 2 | resources are absolutely inadequate for the task. Only in Christ
526 3 | Church is occupied by the Incarnation of the Logos, the Son of
527 3 | God created this world, including man and in this way established
528 1 | disagree with it ,or to be indifferent to it, which is also far
529 Conclu| mother-group, in the moment of individuation).However, when addressing
530 1 | guilt and Christian guilt we inevitably come to the fact of Christ'
531 3 | better that they should inflict bloody wounds on us that
532 2 | instead of the Holocaust inflicted as its largest wound on
533 2 | conservatives are quite influential in the Church and through
534 2 | tendencies of conservative inhibit conservatives from initiating
535 1 | means to hate their own innate sinfulness, their failures
536 3 | CHRISTIANITY THEIR IDEA OF THE INSEPARABILITY OF THE JEWS AS A PEOPLE
537 1 | and anti-Semitism are not inseparably connected as theology after
538 1 | were evil people somewhere insidiously commiting evil deeds and
539 3 | the Bible, was not less insistent teaching about the special
540 2 | if we try to deny this by insisting that we are responsible
541 1 | to be published by Keston Institute in Religion, State and Society,
542 1 | result.) After years of institutionalised atheism in Russia, a phenomenon
543 3 | are nothing else, but an instrument of the devil, that they
544 1 | among the Russian Orthodox intelligensia both clergy and laity. The
545 2 | West. Of course I have no intention of justifying anti-Semites -
546 1 | Judaism. ~But what is really interesting: the Orthodox Fathers' attitude
547 1 | situation, being properly interpreted. ~Since we believe that
548 3 | otherwise in some personal interviews express their negative attitudes
549 3 | nevertheless did not render it invalid"( see v. III, p.18). Or, "
550 Conclu| have no other idea than to invent something opposite (they
551 3 | this "Jewish god"(i.e. god invented by the Jews, as they thought)
552 3 | Communist regime (voluntarily or involuntarily) have no right to blame
553 Conclu| being an ideologist, he involves his nation in this struggle.
554 2 | communicate with them, even when irrationality seems so evident and strong.
555 2 | liberal Christians. The isolationist or separatist tendencies
556 1 | Tvorenia Prepodobnogo Maxima Ispovednika', Moskva, Martis, 1993,
557 1 | more serious, theological issues. As you know, the problem
558 Conclu| in "Deutseh- Franzosische Jahrbucher" and a chapter on the Jewish
559 1 | Jewish and Christian." Fr. A. James Berstein, Concilliar Press,
560 1 | makes Russians themselves jealous: something opposite to the
561 1 | one's "soul in this world"(Jn.12.25), which is not a pleasant
562 Conclu| pluralist. Thus, he loses his job. ~However, if he denies
563 2 | him. Those are the real "Judeoi" of today, whom Christ has
564 2 | following: "In our search for justice and freedom we, liberals,
565 2 | course I have no intention of justifying anti-Semites - not even
566 3 | sumplerosin) than by synthesis (kata ten sunthesin)/PG 90 681-
567 3 | light unto the nations", not keeping this light to themselves.
568 3 | of the Judaizers. ~This keeps our hierarchs, who otherwise
569 1 | 1992, to be published by Keston Institute in Religion, State
570 1 | religious thinker Aleksey Khomiakov. He said that the Church /
571 1 | forced Pontius Pilate to kill Christ are indeed the killers
572 1 | experience as pogroms in Kishinev our Church is obliged to
573 3 | shall meet death in peace, knowing that it, as everything else
574 3 | existence was to bring the knowledge of God,.. closer to the
575 2 | compare the lessons from Kolyma and Auschwitz, but I reserve
576 3 | confession (see Litvak B.G. "Krestianskoie dvijenie v Rosii v 1773 -
577 1 | proclaimed, say, John of Kronstadt, as her saint, it means
578 3 | this point. Deacon Andrej Kuraev, who for some time was close
579 1 | intelligensia both clergy and laity. The Protocols of the Elders
580 3 | this revolts, houses of landowners were burned, their property
581 Conclu| either any of the Jewish languages, nor the Jewish culture,
582 1 | Doctrine, A dilogoue by Pinchas Lapide and Jurgen Moltmann, Fortress
583 2 | Holocaust inflicted as its largest wound on our consciousness
584 2 | revolution. Already in the late thirties and especially
585 1 | Vitaly Borovoy has said: "Lately, the Russian Church has
586 2 | times, because he is the leader of Protestant theology-after-Auschwitz,
587 3 | Communists with the Jews as their leaders. ~Yes, all holy places were
588 1 | or cultural circumstances led to the administrative disunity
589 3 | babies died before the Jews left Egypt? If anti-Semitism
590 Conclu| homosexuals", "women", "lesbians" - all sort of groups in
591 3 | anti-Semitism. The main lesson which Non-Orthodox Christianity
592 2 | essential to compare the lessons from Kolyma and Auschwitz,
593 3 | of God) And new messianic Levites, called communists, and
594 2 | justice and freedom we, liberals, often forget to seek sanctity
595 3 | should play the role of lifting of our flesh towards the
596 1 | destroy them. But the dividing line between good and evil cuts
597 3 | to go to confession (see Litvak B.G. "Krestianskoie dvijenie
598 2 | This is how he Himself lived, and died. And it is the
599 1 | cannot be confined to any local concrete cultural forms.
600 2 | post-Kolyma theology (to name the location of the worst labour camps
601 Conclu| one. Nevertheless, even logically speaking it is not excluded
602 3 | of Oxford, Andre Deutsch, London 1994 v.2 p 661). ~Here,
603 3 | in belief in Christ) the long-awaited peace between Jews and Gentiles.
604 1 | judgement, to abstain from looking for it, even to guard one'
605 Conclu| truths, and in this way one looses one's self-satisfaction. ~
606 Conclu| for pluralist. Thus, he loses his job. ~However, if he
607 3 | excellent study of Svetlana Lourie in her book "Metamorfozi
608 3 | beloved Israel indeed. Whom He loves, He is punishing in this
609 1 | Judaism, ed. by Malcolm Lowe, Immanuel 26/27, 1994).
610 1 | anti-Semitism in Russia is lower than the average in comparison
611 1 | Latin Church, that of the Macobees. Only Vatican II has suggested
612 1 | Orthodoxy and Judaism, ed. by Malcolm Lowe, Immanuel 26/27, 1994).
613 Conclu| evil exist. He becomes a Manihaen. He dedicates his life to
614 2 | reaction to pogroms and all manner of anti-Semitism which had
615 1 | Maxima Ispovednika', Moskva, Martis, 1993, p. 187) ~But St.Maximus
616 3 | Tikhon.*[* Thus the holy martyr Metropolitan Benjamin of
617 1 | See for example Act of Martyrdom of Pionius the Presbyter (
618 3 | vengeance in the form of a massacre, against our enemies or
619 3 | ideal than well-being (both material and cultural), that is,
620 1 | Tvorenia Prepodobnogo Maxima Ispovednika', Moskva, Martis,
621 1 | Monde et L'Eglise Selon Maxime le Confesseur", Beauchesue,
622 3 | responsibility in calling oneself the member of the Orthodox Church (
623 Conclu| Church should teach her members that they should not be
624 3 | could easily have avoided a mere nuisance. But, in this case,
625 3 | with spreading this new message to all the people of the
626 3 | new ideal of the Jews has met a powerful support on the
627 3 | Svetlana Lourie in her book "Metamorfozi traditsionnogo soznania",
628 2 | we resort to totalitarian methods to avoid a new hatred? I
629 3 | Thus the holy martyr Metropolitan Benjamin of St. Petersburg,
630 Conclu| black", "homosexual", "middle-class" American) one cannot be
631 Conclu| problems in this respect for minor peoples. However, the people
632 Conclu| the West does make some mistakes, even if all Orthodox Churches
633 3 | they are afraid of being misunderstood by simple Christians, as
634 1 | crucifixion substantially mitigated their guilt even if did
635 3 | Russian Orthodox Church to mix Orthodox teaching with Judaism.
636 Conclu| here, but the race which is mixed up in the minds of so-called
637 Conclu| accepted the pluralistic model of the West. However, the
638 1 | XX centuries - they were monarchists, antisemites, because many
639 1 | reading agrees with A.Riou "Le Monde et L'Eglise Selon Maxime
640 Conclu| nation as such is capitalism (money, which became the new god
641 3 | was during the time of the Mongol-Tatar Yoke, the true Church said:
642 1 | found in St Petersburg, Moscow or Sergiev Posad but, what
643 1 | Prepodobnogo Maxima Ispovednika', Moskva, Martis, 1993, p. 187) ~
644 Conclu| separating oneself from one's mother-group, in the moment of individuation).
645 Conclu| groups go away from their mother-groups to organise some new groups.
646 2 | has a positive spiritual motive. Those Russian Orthodox
647 3 | Thal 63.PG 90 C D). Both movements are inseparable from each
648 3 | single mystery(eis henos musteriou sumplerosin) than by synthesis (
649 1 | Martyrs, trans by Herbert Musurillo, Oxford, The Clarendon Press,
650 3 | absolute. Hence, religious, mysterious character of the Holocaust.[
651 3 | captivity down to our time mysteriously supported by God, who in
652 3 | the Jewish newspaper - N1 1992). ~Yes, it is certainly
653 Conclu| ideology was based on the National-Socialism. What they tried, but failed
654 1 | published in the right-wing nationalist news-paper Zemschina N 99.
655 Conclu| scandal, for the Russian nationalists!). Even in the Russian Orthodox
656 3 | v 1773 - 1904 godah" M. Nauka, 1989 p.206). Besides, one
657 Conclu| This was the hatred of Nazi-Germans. However, this anti-Semitism
658 2 | Communion, as Christians, in a nearby Church. In Russia, the situation
659 3 | Christ. Nothing more is needed for our salvation. It is
660 3 | ourselves, to serve our carnal needs. ~This, I believe, is a
661 Conclu| substance "anti-Semitism" means negation of the Semites (i.e. the
662 2 | resolve the Jewish problem negatively only - to come to not hating
663 1 | failures to love God and their neighbours. This is a hard task for
664 1 | that since the time of the Nestorian controversy when the notion
665 1 | the right-wing nationalist news-paper Zemschina N 99. The author
666 3 | Evreskaia gazeta - the Jewish newspaper - N1 1992). ~Yes, it is
667 Conclu| post-Auschwitz theology a nice pretext for consolidating
668 2 | officers in Leningrad in the nineteen 20-30, they said, were Jews.
669 3 | renewed the Same Covenant with Noah, by the Same Logos God again
670 3 | Church (Latin Church) to non-Christian religions (particularly
671 1 | Christians, and, I would add, non-Christians, or even atheists, we do
672 Conclu| national divisions is both non-realistic and dangerous. Take for
673 Conclu| both Russians by blood and non-Russians may write, say, poetry in
674 | none
675 1 | upon the Jews of today"(Nostra Aetate, n 4). This definition
676 3 | Christians, Godly men, being not-Christians in fact. There is a great
677 2 | the Russian context. As I noted, the greatest wound in Russian
678 3 | fulfilled, the Jews having noticed that peoples around them
679 1 | Nestorian controversy when the notion of the Theotokos was in
680 3 | to do so, as a Jew. This obloigation means responsibility. After
681 3 | to return to my previous observation, namely that it is a point
682 Conclu| thought that the Jews are an obstacle for their own choseness.
683 3 | non-Orthodox theology is obvious, it is a failure to preserve
684 3 | teaching of the Church is occupied by the Incarnation of the
685 2 | anti-Semitism which had occurred even before the Revolution. ~
686 3 | Revolution (see Golubih N., Ocherki gluhoi derevni, M; L.: Znanie,
687 Conclu| is also not true, it may offend both, the Russians and the
688 Conclu| as such and abstain from offending people of each group acknowledging
689 3 | toward anti-Semitism, from an official Sinodical declaration on
690 2 | Christians use anti-Semitism to oppose any kind of ecumenical dialogue - -
691 2 | atheistic - that it was not only opposed to the bourgeoisie, but
692 Conclu| which nobody can stop. The origin of this split is clear:
693 Conclu| see John G. Gager "The Origins of anti-Semitism, Oxford
694 | over
695 Conclu| of "race" as such, we may overcome the problem of anti-Semitism,
696 2 | famous German theologian overlooked that such common persecution
697 Conclu| However, even the ancient, pagan world did not know such
698 1 | Not only some dreadful pamphlets about Jewish sacrifices
699 Conclu| theology. I myself in this paper have said a lot on this
700 1 | are not guilty. ~It is a paradox of Judaism that until the
701 3 | 1994 pp 169-211)] ~The parallel process has been taking
702 3 | more or less free from any participation in the communist past, feel
703 1 | weakness of all other political parties in 1917, this small but
704 1 | Christians. ~Now let me pass on to more serious, theological
705 1 | and blaming them, being passionate anti-Semites. One can hate
706 3 | themselves, do not raise their pastoral voice against anti-Semitism
707 Conclu| are individuals with their peculiar features. Those of them
708 3 | simpler Christians, might perceive them as displaying a positive
709 2 | were Jews. Whether the percentage is accurate or not is for
710 1 | whom it is impossible to perpetrate an act of violence) they
711 3 | Bolsheviks were still afraid to persecute the Church in the villages,
712 3 | chosen nation", and were persecuted by it). ~Though the Jews
713 3 | Christians, but have always been persecuting true Israel of God, which
714 3 | to blame Russians for the persecutions suffered by the Jews during
715 1 | but I may testify that I personally know a lot of Jews who became,
716 3 | movement). Being absolutely perverted in Judaism, however, this
717 1 | Moltmann, Fortress Press Philadelphia 1981, p 89/. Modern Russian
718 3 | this nation of a great philosophical tradition with deep Christian
719 1 | problem raised in modern philosophy, it was as such unknown
720 1 | that was in Christ Jesus"(Phlp. 2. 5.). ** One may certainly
721 Conclu| the Jews of existence not physically, but theoretically (though
722 Conclu| and such biological and physiological features) but as a nation,
723 1 | revolution. ~Now then, people pick out some of their opinions
724 1 | greatest forerunners of piety, service, ascetic life,
725 1 | Doctrine, A dilogoue by Pinchas Lapide and Jurgen Moltmann,
726 1 | example Act of Martyrdom of Pionius the Presbyter (dated around
727 3 | than the Old Covenant, they placed themselves outside of the
728 1 | Jn.12.25), which is not a pleasant exercise. ~The Anti-Semitism
729 1 | being a Jew one cannot be pleased by these words of the Christian
730 3 | burned, their property was plundered. All thess acts could certainly
731 3 | chasidic thinkers today, pointed out, "The Talmud says that
732 1 | the depths of the tsarist police and then played there evil
733 1 | no crisis in our economy, politics, ideology and culture, that
734 3 | among those who were very poor, as it was in Poland, Ukraine,
735 2 | TOWARDS THE POS-GULAG THEOLOGY~ Chapter 2 ~Jurgen
736 1 | Petersburg, Moscow or Sergiev Posad but, what is more dangerous,
737 3 | religion. ~Now, I want to pose my main question, ARE WE,
738 2 | Russian Orthodox Church. This poses great difficulties and problems;
739 Conclu| self-identification, it cannot be solved positively in such a society. If one
740 2 | Gulag. ~So, what we need is post-Kolyma theology (to name the location
741 3 | participated in this Covenant. Only potentially, now, after Sinai, can each
742 3 | ideal of the Jews has met a powerful support on the part of the
743 Conclu| seeks to be realized in practice). What I mean, is first
744 3 | happens to me I shall say: Praise the Lord". The following
745 3 | was fulfilled. Christ is praised by our Church as "The Light
746 3 | article by L. Il'ina in Pravoslavny Peterburg [Orthodox Petersburg],
747 2 | the ways in which we truly pray for our forefathers is to
748 3 | hatred and bloodshed, he prayed for his enemies, and he
749 1 | Russian). Every nation is predestined to Salvation. Who teaches
750 2 | be alert to conservative premises, ready to help clarify them
751 1 | by A.Sidorov, 'Tvorenia Prepodobnogo Maxima Ispovednika', Moskva,
752 1 | Martyrdom of Pionius the Presbyter (dated around 300 a.c.): "
753 Conclu| monolithic society. The society preservers this energy, and accumulates
754 3 | Protestant theology, Moltmann presumably disagree with the Catholic
755 1 | of "apatheia" is not to presuppose a judgement, to abstain
756 Conclu| post-Auschwitz theology a nice pretext for consolidating people
757 3 | national gods". They knew pretty well that the Jews claim
758 Conclu| Finally, there is a sort of primitive anti-Semitism, when the
759 3 | hatred for the Jew, whose principal purpose for existence was
760 1 | which we are, as it were, prisoners of Jewish influence."(pp
761 Conclu| anti-Western ideology than by proclaiming Orthodoxy as something typically
762 2 | the Jews. It is itself a product of hatred. And the case
763 Conclu| hate some race as such, not projecting some idea on the race. ~
764 3 | gentiles, as it had been promised to Abraham (Gen. 12.3; cf.
765 Conclu| Russia, they promise to promote religious education at school.
766 3 | be, I know that it is not pronounced by you but comes from the
767 Conclu| its serious defender and propagandist abroad. Thus, there is no
768 1 | to our situation, being properly interpreted. ~Since we believe
769 3 | landowners were burned, their property was plundered. All thess
770 3 | climbing the Sinai, and of the prophet Ilijah are the best examples
771 1 | Christians. This answer was proposed in the XIX -th century by
772 3 | and cultural), that is, prosperous life on earth, protected
773 3 | prosperous life on earth, protected by God which life (and which
774 3 | Church (i.e. Catholics and Protestants). "Church's Yahweh is now
775 1 | both clergy and laity. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which
776 3 | should be given here to prove this, perhaps, unexpected
777 1 | there is something of God's providence in this process, because
778 Conclu| people, what reaction, it may provoke? Nothing, but hatred. National
779 2 | violent expulsion of Jews. Psychologically they clearly do not want
780 3 | as revolts of Rasin and Pugachev, described in the Russian
781 3 | Chrisians. And if we fail, He punishes us, teaching in this way.
782 1 | their views that have a purely historical character. That
783 3 | the Jew, whose principal purpose for existence was to bring
784 3 | literature, particularly by Pushkin. A lot of people was killed
785 1 | impossible, if he had been putting blame on anybody. To be
786 Conclu| having in mind a modern quest for the solution to national
787 1 | there are two different questions in fact. One is: who killed
788 Conclu| with a black skin, to avoid racism. In the same way, it teaches
789 Conclu| Jewish nation. They were not racists in fact, they were Nazis,
790 2 | after the war the situation radically changed and Jews themselves
791 2 | of this problem. But this raises a human rights issue. Suppose
792 3 | 1861, as well as revolts of Rasin and Pugachev, described
793 1 | someone who attentively reads the Gospels to say that
794 3 | well-being), should have realise this ideal in history for
795 3 | carnal. Practically, it was realised in Judaism in the idea of
796 3 | of God, the Old Testament realises "the movement of the flesh
797 Conclu| in theory, it seeks to be realized in practice). What I mean,
798 1 | This idea seems to be quite reasonable. But may I ask, do modern
799 2 | Here I would like to recall another personal experience:
800 2 | children, German officers received Holy Communion, as Christians,
801 | recently
802 1 | like Jews, they do not recognise Him as Saviour even if they
803 2 | the conservative has not recognised them. Love for them, as
804 3 | Judaism). Take for example the recommendation, how to teach people on
805 1 | no other way for me to be reconciled with God than to be an Orthodox
806 3 | not want to believe that reconciliation with gentiles has already
807 2 | and then will discover the redeeming love of God that binds them
808 Conclu| other form of humanity, or reduced to some abstract "human
809 3 | the Church's service was reduces to one third of that before
810 Conclu| nature". ~Both tendencies (of reducing and replacing), working
811 1 | The author of this article refers to the Revelation of St
812 2 | Moltmann to whom I has already reffered several times, because he
813 2 | non-Jewish Russians, it means refusing to hate and to accuse the
814 3 | of the church's books of registration of confession, it was quite
815 3 | ideologists was their complete rejection of the Old Testament and "
816 2 | so-called "Jewish guilt" relating to the misfortunes of the
817 3 | this question, I want to rely upon the authority of Scripture.
818 1 | act of violence) they will remain unreconciled with God.* [*
819 Conclu| the energy of division remains within the monolithic society.
820 Conclu| avoid sexism, precisely by remembering that she is a woman. And
821 3 | Orthodox Christians (the remnant of the Russian Orthodox
822 3 | but nevertheless did not render it invalid"( see v. III,
823 1 | and Jews on Continuity and Renewal, The Third Academic Meeting
824 2 | individual" sins, and need not repent for the sins of our forefathers,
825 Conclu| humanity, which cannot be replaced by any other form of humanity,
826 Conclu| tendencies (of reducing and replacing), working together, can
827 3 | also the Gypsies, which represented for them the idea of the
828 Conclu| from their point of view represents the embodiment of some idea.
829 2 | Kolyma and Auschwitz, but I reserve this task for the future
830 3 | finally, though not without resistance and hesitation, the Russian
831 2 | Jews. ~It is not enough to resolve the Jewish problem negatively
832 2 | not want to leave? Must we resort to totalitarian methods
833 3 | Doubtless the New in many respects transcends the Old"(p.23). ~
834 3 | Moltmann should not place the resposibility for it elsewhere. Nazi Germans
835 Conclu| typically Russian place. [Not a restaurant or club which is good for
836 1 | Or.Dom. PG 90. 347 C: "He restores (human) nature to itself
837 1 | gives us quite an opposite result.) After years of institutionalised
838 1 | regards the Jewish question, Rev. Prof. Vitaly Borovoy has
839 2 | the gentile shore and the reverse can certainly take place
840 2 | responsibility.(Vestnik RHD 117, 1976 p 113)/. ~Here
841 1 | Dubrovin published in the right-wing nationalist news-paper Zemschina
842 1 | My reading agrees with A.Riou "Le Monde et L'Eglise Selon
843 2 | feeling of hatred which is rooted in that awful wound in Russian
844 3 | years ago,"- proclaimed A.Rosenberg in his "Myth of the XX century".
845 3 | Krestianskoie dvijenie v Rosii v 1773 - 1904 godah" M.
846 1 | frightened that this process can ruin the national characteristics
847 1 | especially when they are not in sacramental communion with each other.
848 1 | dreadful pamphlets about Jewish sacrifices of Christian babies can
849 Conclu| mind. Otherwise we cannot safely go through the temptations
850 3 | could not have found such safety. ~
851 3 | the Old Testament are less saintly than the Christian saints.
852 Conclu| else but spiritual cancer, satanic temptation. ~Even if Orthodox
853 Conclu| But these new ones cannot satisfy anybody either. At the same
854 3 | different nations), Nazis saw in the Jews the nation which
855 2 | themselves were(and are) saying such things, it is not surprising
856 Conclu| blood, as Brodsky. What a scandal, for the Russian nationalists!).
857 1 | topic of my lecture. What scandalises me as an Orthodox Christian
858 Conclu| promote religious education at school. They promise to share political
859 Conclu| Marx thought that in modern secular world where the Jews do
860 3 | 1925). ~It was not hard to seduce these false Christians,
861 3 | them played the role of seducer, the other was that of the
862 Conclu| humanism propose their own seduction to the Church. If the Orthodox
863 3 | promise are counted as the seed"(Rom 8.9). The Jews were
864 1 | Revelation of St John and sees the signs of the Last Days
865 Conclu| this way one looses one's self-satisfaction. ~There is still another
866 1 | Riou "Le Monde et L'Eglise Selon Maxime le Confesseur", Beauchesue,
867 Conclu| anti-Semitism" means negation of the Semites (i.e. the Jews). Those who
868 2 | from Russia, especially sending them to Israel or the USA
869 1 | it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us
870 Conclu| one is in the process of separating oneself from one's mother-group,
871 2 | Christians. The isolationist or separatist tendencies of conservative
872 Conclu| one exception is made for Serbia, since the Serbs are the
873 Conclu| made for Serbia, since the Serbs are the first enemies of
874 3 | after the abolition of the serfdom in 1861, as well as revolts
875 1 | St Petersburg, Moscow or Sergiev Posad but, what is more
876 3 | it is not fatal as Fr. Sergii Bulgakov has put it* [*"
877 1 | be found in the Church's services in the words of the hymns.
878 3 | Here we find all this set of ideas, connected with
879 Conclu| nationality" or, say, "sex". Only persons, or individuals
880 Conclu| speaking with a woman, to avoid sexism, precisely by remembering
881 2 | is a sin. But they cannot shake of that strong feeling of
882 3 | the few heresies which has shaken Orthodoxy in Russia, and
883 3 | those from the Jews who shared the same faith as Abraham,
884 3 | to Archimandrite Sergei Shein: "I have not fought a battle
885 1 | appeared in our Church's shops amidst a whole variety of
886 2 | the Jewish to the gentile shore and the reverse can certainly
887 Conclu| be satisfied only for a short moment of time when one
888 2 | Jews to live in Russia to show His Christian people that
889 3 | by God, who in this way showed their choseness. The Jews
890 1 | is a hard task for both sides, though God never demands
891 1 | Russian translation by A.Sidorov, 'Tvorenia Prepodobnogo
892 3 | This is why they maintain silence, which is certainly both
893 3 | martyrs, to the Church of St.Silouan the Athonite who up to the
894 1 | different implications than similar figures, say, in England
895 1 | to hate their own innate sinfulness, their failures to love
896 1 | was "passionless" (as we sing) which would have been impossible,
897 3 | toward the fulfilment of a single mystery(eis henos musteriou
898 1 | sin and the devil, not the sinners, we may apply their words
899 3 | anti-Semitism, from an official Sinodical declaration on this point.
900 2 | conservative brothers and sisters the following: "In our search
901 Conclu| Gentiles, barbarians and Skiffs, in a word, between all
902 3 | because a part is always smaller than the whole. It was the
903 Conclu| enough. ~Moreover, this so-to-speak "humanism" may use as its
904 1 | Orthodoxy in Russian today (a sociologist's view)', written in 1992,
905 2 | order to draw your attention solely to the situation in our
906 1 | his own heart? ~Alexandr Solzhenitsyn ~The Gulag Achipelago. ~ ~
907 | somewhere
908 3 | Incarnation of the Logos, the Son of God consists of the fact
909 3 | fought a battle against Soviet power, I have fought a battle
910 3 | Metamorfozi traditsionnogo soznania", St.Peterburg, 1994 pp
911 1 | the emotional state of a speaker. If we understand the Fathers'
912 2 | captured by Jews; and their specific evidence for this and their
913 Conclu| ideologists (who above all speculate on the glorious past of
914 Conclu| neither religion. They speek Russian, they are brought
915 Conclu| and blood, but the evil spirits. It is not only the "Western
916 Conclu| their own nation. Yes, they spoke about the Aryan race, opposing
917 3 | Sinai, the same Logos has spoken through the prophets, and
918 3 | Jews were also charged with spreading this new message to all
919 2 | themselves became the victims of Stalin's camps. But immediately
920 3 | bloodshed of the Revolution and Stalinism, nobody who was involved
921 3 | is even less likely to be stamped out. But our hierarchs who,
922 1 | dimension. I would like to start with this aspect of the
923 3 | greatest of them, clearly states: "The two Testaments completely
924 3 | others has made a next step, into communist movement,
925 Conclu| Jews may serve as a touch stone of spiritual health (now
926 | stop
927 Conclu| which are described in the story about the tower of Babylon.
928 1 | may easily find another striking tendency. I do not know
929 1 | some spiritual reasons. The strongest one is their Christianity
930 3 | community see an excellent study of Svetlana Lourie in her
931 1 | anti-Semitism among Orthodox subgroups than among atheists. Not
932 2 | experience. ~To look at my subject in another way, I would
933 Conclu| pure one, because in its substance "anti-Semitism" means negation
934 1 | responsible for the crucifixion substantially mitigated their guilt even
935 3 | replace the Old Israel, which substitution, according to Moltmann,
936 3 | Russians for the persecutions suffered by the Jews during the years
937 Conclu| However, in spite of all sufferings of our country, in spite
938 3 | danger of this approach, he suggests another, opposite, but equally
939 Conclu| because no group or their sum does represent the whole
940 3 | mystery(eis henos musteriou sumplerosin) than by synthesis (kata
941 3 | than by synthesis (kata ten sunthesin)/PG 90 681-AB/. The exceptional,
942 Conclu| this nation is entirely superfluous. The Jewish question can
943 3 | connected with such words as "supersede", "transcend" and "two covenants",
944 3 | Russians, who themselves were supporters of the Communist regime (
945 3 | clearly understand, that by supporting communists they have sinned.
946 1 | According to Borzenko, who supports his statement through the
947 2 | raises a human rights issue. Suppose a person selected for emigration
948 2 | saying such things, it is not surprising that some Russian Orthodox
949 2 | conservative Russian Orthodox survivors of communist terror and
950 3 | in our Church falls under suspicion of being sympathetic to
951 3 | see an excellent study of Svetlana Lourie in her book "Metamorfozi
952 3 | under suspicion of being sympathetic to Judaism and likely to
953 3 | musteriou sumplerosin) than by synthesis (kata ten sunthesin)/PG
954 Conclu| America, England, France, Syria, Greece, they cannot proclaim
955 | taking
956 3 | today, pointed out, "The Talmud says that the reason for
957 2 | evidence for this and their target is post-Auschwitz theology. ~
958 1 | Church Fathers, for whom this term was quite usual. However,
959 2 | expulsion of Jews does not terminate anti-Semitism. ~So, we liberal
960 2 | Orthodox survivors of communist terror and those who share with
961 1 | in a climate of spiritual terrorism that those categories create,
962 3 | clearly states: "The two Testaments completely agree with one
963 1 | like counting but I may testify that I personally know a
964 3 | the spirit towards God (Thal 63.PG 90 C D). Both movements
965 Conclu| existence not physically, but theoretically (though no theory ends just
966 3 | property was plundered. All thess acts could certainly be
967 1 | great Russian religious thinker Aleksey Khomiakov. He said
968 3 | of the leading chasidic thinkers today, pointed out, "The
969 3 | Covenant or erroneously thinks that they are not one. ~
970 2 | revolution. Already in the late thirties and especially after the
971 1 | Holy Fathers at all! What a threat for the whole Orthodox tradition! ~
972 1 | in one city you can find three or even five national Orthodox
973 3 | this behaviour, than St.Tihkon's understanding that everything
974 1 | have its effect even up till now.* ~Being a Jew myself
975 1 | Church for Jews. This is the title of an article by N.Dubrovin
976 1 | of Moltmann even less so, tolerance and indifference which is
977 | too
978 1 | of this crisis is not the topic of my lecture. What scandalises
979 1 | nevertheless, amidst the total crisis of society, and the
980 2 | leave? Must we resort to totalitarian methods to avoid a new hatred?
981 Conclu| kind. During the years of totalitarianism there was only one truth
982 Conclu| described in the story about the tower of Babylon. It is only the
983 3 | in her book "Metamorfozi traditsionnogo soznania", St.Peterburg,
984 3 | who, being faced with the tragedy of the Russian history and
985 1 | their opinions and call us traitors to the Orthodox faith. I
986 Conclu| has not abolished death trampling death. ~The real core of
987 1 | man he kept a free will tranquil and understubed... even
988 1 | Acts of Christian Martyrs, trans by Herbert Musurillo, Oxford,
989 3 | such words as "supersede", "transcend" and "two covenants", which
990 3 | Covenant confirmed, renewed and transcended the Old, and how the New
991 3 | the New in many respects transcends the Old"(p.23). ~Here we
992 3 | essential code which would transform them into a moral nation".
993 3 | the gradual process of transforming the human soul"(Evreskaia
994 1 | calling of God"(Rom.11.29) are transmitted from generation to generation,
995 Conclu| pluralism is obliged either to treat them as entirely untrue,
996 3 | for example, said at his trial: "Whatever your verdict
997 1 | monotheism and Christian Trinitarian Doctrine, A dilogoue by
998 2 | of the ways in which we truly pray for our forefathers
999 Conclu| acknowledge immediately all other truths, and in this way one looses
1000 1 | Catholic theology, which though trying to diminish this guilt,
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