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Byzantium was Intentionally Removed from European Historical Consciousness

Natalia Narochnitskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences

The film Fall of an Empire displayed in panoramic vision the general movement of human history—what modern man does not want to look at. Unfortunately, modern man sees only the surface of this film, wishing to guard himself from the yoke of responsibility for his actions as observed under the microscope of history. Modern man prefers to see that small stitch of zigzag on which he sits, and doesn’t want to know where this winding river of history flows as a whole. The film reminds us about our foremother Byzantium, something intentionally removed not only from the soviet Russian historical awareness, but also from that of the European.

Rating: 9|Votes: 1

On the Psychology of Schism

Deacon Jan Veselak

"Behold how good it is for brothers to dwell as one" (Psalms 133:1). Unity and one-mindedness (edinomisliye) are important aspects of the Christian life. St Paul tells us repeatedly that the Church is the Body of Christ (Colossians 1:18). As parts of this body we must work together. This implies, then, that we are interconnected (to use a popular term).

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On "Scientific" Theologians

Constantine Cavarnos

Kontoglou spoke of certain ‘scientific” (epistemones) theologians, men who had studied theology in Europe and brought to the Greek universities a rather cerebral and so- called “liberal” mode of theologizing. Theocletos Pharmakidis (1784-1862), he noted, was the first Greek theologian of this type. Of recent ones, he cited Demetrios Balanos. Such theologians, he said, regard traditional Orthodox theology, which comes from the roots of Christianity and from the Greek Fathers, as “ossified,” and they come as “renewers” of it.

A Byzantine Warning.On the new documentary film, The Fall of an Empire—the Lesson of Byzantium

Anna Prokrovskaya

Rarely does a documentary film about Medieval history evoke such heated discussion and growing polemic in society as did the film, The Fall of an Empire—the Lesson of Byzantium, the latest work by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), the Superior of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery.

Russian Church unity one year on: expectations, impressions, thoughts

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

We should in no wise think that this mutual act of unity came from us. It did not. It was and is a miracle of the saints. It came from the New Martyrs and Confessors, it came from St Tikhon of Moscow and from St John of Shanghai. It came from holy elders inside Russia and it came from holy elders in the emigration.