A new issue of the magazine "The Church and Time" was published

A new issue of the magazine "The Church and Time" was published Вышел в свет новый номер журнала «Церковь и время» print version 4 July 2018 11:20 Issue No. 2 (83) of the scientific theological and church-public journal of the magazine "Church and Time", published by the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, was published. It is opened by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the eighth ceremony of electing and awarding the laureates of the Patriarchal Literary Prize of St. Cyril and Methodius in Moscow on May 24, 2018. "To resist evil by the power of the word" - with such an appeal His Holiness addressed the nominees and laureates of the prize gathered in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior of Moscow, and in their person - to the whole literary community of modern Russia and the whole Russian world, to all those who writes in the great Russian language, based on the enlightening feat of the holy brothers and equal brothers Cyril and Methodius. His speech at the scientific and theological conference "Theological interpretation of the phenomenon of terrorism and extremism", Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk , chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, devoted religious interpretation to this complex and multifaceted socio-political phenomenon. "We should not combine the concepts of extremism and religiosity," emphasizes Vladyka Hilarion. "No religion teaches us to kill." The monstrous crimes of extremists contradict the moral principles of all traditional religions. There can not be "religious terrorism, but there are criminal acts of terrorists, who hide behind religious rhetoric. In the column "History of the Church" the magazine places two articles that shed light on the complicated and, in many respects complicated by conjuncture publications, the history of the transition of the Kyiv Metropolitanate from the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1686. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the department of the history of the Middle Ages of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Florya and Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior researcher of the Department of the History of Slavic Peoples of the Institute of Slavic Studies, K.A. Kochegarov in the article "Lutsk Bishop Gideon (Chetvertinsky) and the fate of Orthodoxy in the western part of the Kiev Metropolis" show the contribution of this outstanding hierarch in the struggle for the preservation of Orthodoxy in the Eastern Slavic lands of the Polish-Lithuanian state. Candidate of History, Junior Researcher of the Center for Source Studies of Russian History at the Institute of Russian History, RAS M.R. Yafarova in the article "The Embassy of Prokofia Voznitsyn and the question of the Kiev Metropolis" is considering the issue of re-subordination of the Kyiv Metropolitanate to the Moscow Patriarchate against the backdrop of uneasy relations of Greek hierarchs and the Russian state with the Ottoman government. Both works are supplied with a large number of archival documents, from which it follows that the Patriarch of Constantinople who was in the Ottoman capital could not protect the Orthodox Rzeczpospolita from Catholic expansion, and only the transition of the Ukrainian dioceses to the jurisdiction of Moscow preserved Orthodoxy in this region. In the article "Dante's conception of Rome as an exemplary state", the rector of the Kursk Theological Seminary Archimandrite Simeon (Tomachinsky) reveals the view of the world order of the outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance, Dante Alighieri. According to Dante, the cornerstone of human society must be justice, which is possible only under a monarchy or imperial state. The power in the empire does not depend on the Church - such an unexpected thesis is advanced by the champion of the monarchy. Power secular and spiritual come directly from God: one for bliss in this life, the other for bliss in eternal life. In the "Theology" section, the journal continues to publish the chapters of the forthcoming textbook for undergraduate studies in the course of the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament to the associate professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy B.А. Tikhomirova. In this issue, readers and critics will become acquainted with the section "The Prophets of VIII - the beginning of the VII century: a historical overview of the era; The Book of the Prophet Amos. " In the publication "Abdullah ibn al-Fadl al-Anthaki and the experience of translating three questions from his treatise" Eighty questions and answers about the Trinity and incarnation ", the author, postgraduate student of the Department of Theology and Liturgics of the post-graduate and post-graduate doctoral studies. the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius G.N. Gladishev acquaints the reader with the legacy of this prominent Melkite theologian of the 11th century. Translation is provided with necessary comments and is preceded by an article containing the main biographical information about Abdallah al-Anthaki, data on the manuscript and its contents. Master of Theology, student of the All-Church Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies S.O. Chernov in the article "On the Question of the Person and Works of Eustratius of Constantinople and Their Significance for Byzantine Theology" on the basis of the works of Eustratius himself, the mention of his contemporaries and the research of Western authors, recreates the life and creative path of the Constantinople presbyter and examines in detail his writings "The Life of Eutyches" , "The Life of Golinduhi", as well as the dogmatic-polemical treatise "On the state of the soul after death". In the section "In memoriam" there is an article by the clergyman of the Resurrection of St. Sergiy Matyushin, VOGANKI Cemetery in Moscow, "One of the first in the DECR", telling about the life path of Archpriest Peter Filonov, who was standing at the revival of the mission of the testimony of the Russian Church to the outside world after the end of the period her martyrdom.