St. Theophan the Recluse symposium Moscow Patriarch

June 21, 2018 in the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, under the chairmanship of the Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovo Clement held a scientific conference "The Life and Works of St. Theophan the Recluse in History and Modernity." Before the beginning of the conference in the house church of the Publishing Council in honor of St. Joseph of Volotsky was made a moleben to St. Theophanes, the Recluse Vyshensky. With the blessing of Metropolitan Clement the divine service was led by the cleric of the church of St. vmch. Panteleimon of Krasnodar city, Priest Andrey Kretov. The deacon's rank was headed by a junior researcher in the sector of research projects and special programs of the Publishing Council Deacon Grigory Slutsky. The conference was attended by Metropolitan Theodosius of Tambov and Rasskazovsky , who acted as co-chairman and presenter of the first part of the meeting, as well as scholars, teachers and students of the Moscow Theological Academy , Tambov, Kaluga, Vladimir and Sretensky Seminary, Ryazan State University. S.A. Yesenin, studying the heritage of St. Theophan the Recluse. Opening the meeting, the chairman of the Publishing Council, Metropolitan Kliment, addressed the participants and guests of the conference with a welcoming speech in which he touched the initial period of the closure of St. Theophanes. Presentations were made by: Metropolitan Theodosius of Tambov ("Temple-building in the Tambov diocese under St. Theophan the Recluse"); Archimandrite Zosima (Shevchuk), the governor of the Bogolyubsky Alexievsky Monastery of Vladimir, the teacher of the Vladimir St. Theofan's Theological Seminary ("The Beginning and the Ultimate Purpose of Life in Christ., Experience of Interpretation of the First Chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, St. Theophan the Recluse"); Hegumen Luca (Stepanov), Head of the Theology Department of Ryazan State University, Rector of the Pronsky Monastery of the Ryazan Metropolia ("The Nature and Action of the Spirit of Despondency (According to the Legacy of St. Theophan"); Archpriest Sergiy Rybakov, Chairman of the Department of Religious Education and Catechization of the Ryazan Diocese ("Unity of the people, Churches and the State as a result of" intensified activities for God's sake "(according to the works of St. Theophan the Recluse)"); hegumen Dionisy (Shlenov), head of the library of the Moscow Theological Academy ("Acting and theological chapters" of St. Simeon the New Theologian as part of the Russian "Philokalia" of St. Theophan the Recluse "); Abbess Vera (Rovchan), rector of the Vyshensky Uspensky Women's Monastery ("What nuns should be to enter the palace of the immortal Bridegroom with the wise virgins (according to the book of St. Theophanes" Remembrance of the monastic nobility about what monks demand from them "), the report read out VV Kashirina, teacher of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ilya Glazunov); V.V. Kashirin ("The Way to Salvation" in the life of the Monk Nikon Optinsky (based on the "Diary of the novice Nikolai Belyaev")); G.V. Dyachenko, Candidate of Philology, Candidate of Theology, researcher of the General Psycholinguistics Sector of the Institute of Atomic Energy of the Russian Academy of Sciences ("The Anthropological Synthesis of St. Theophan the Recluse as a Methodological Basis of Communicative Linguistics"). At the end of the first part of the conference, Metropolitan Theodosius and Metropolitan Kliment signed an agreement on scientific cooperation between the Tambov and Kaluga theological seminaries. The second session of the conference, with the blessing of Bishop Clement, was conducted by Archimandrite Zosima (Shevchuk) and Hegumen Luka (Stepanov). In the second part of the forum the reports were presented by: Priest Stefan Danilenko, a member of the secretariat of research projects and special programs of the Publishing Council ("Unknown Letters from St. Theophan to a priest embarrassed by his uncanonical ordination"); Priest Andrey Kretov, cleric of the church of St. vmch. Panteleimon of Krasnodar ("St Theophan as an interpreter (based on the draft manuscript of the translation of liturgical texts)"); Priest Eugene Ignatov, cleric of the church of the Archangel Michael of Krasnodar ("Letters from St. Theophan to Athos"); Hierodeacon Peter (Alexenko), the inhabitant of the Klimovo Pokrovsky male monastery of the Klintsy diocese of the Bryansk metropolia ("Sinful passions as the death of the soul and the human body (according to the interpretations of St. Theophanes the Recluse of the Epistles of St. Paul)"); Priest Sergey Gander, Assistant to the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs (by Correspondence Department) of the Kaluga Theological Seminary ("The Need for a Blessed Restoration of Man in the Sacraments according to the teachings of St. Theophan the Recluse"); A.E. Lukyanova, a member of the Russian Genealogical Society, an expert of the scientific and editorial board for the preparation of the Complete Collection of the works of St. Theophan the Recluse ("Theophan Feofan in the fate of the Macrinovs"); Priest Alexander Almaev, a third-year student at the Tambov Theological Seminary ("The Incarnation of the Pedagogical Views of St. Theophan in His Activity at the Tambov Department"); Deacon Grigory Slutsky, member of the secretariat of research projects and special programs of the Publishing Council ("Reverend Herman Zosimovsky - correspondent of St. Theophan the Recluse"); Alexey Serov, a student of the 1st year of the Tambov Theological Seminary ("Problems of the Spiritual Life of Modern Man and Their Solution in the Light of the Instructions of St. Theophan the Recluse"); Nikolay Vasin, a student of the first year of the Master's Degree in the Sretensky Theological Seminary ("The Teachings of St. Theophan the Recluse on the Virtue of Mercy"); Pavel Matveyev, a student of the first year of the Master's Degree in the Sretensky Theological Seminary ("The Steps of Spiritual Ascent to St. Theophan the Recluse"); Georgy Boesh, a student of the first year of the master's degree in the Sretensky Theological Seminary ("The Teachings of St. Theophan the Recluse about the Passion of Anger"); Alexander Fadeyev, a student of the 3rd year of the Bachelor's Degree in the Sretensky Theological Seminary ("Peculiarities of the teachings of St. Theophan the Recluse about the influence of grace on personality"). Concluding the work of the conference, Metropolitan Kliment Kaluga thanked the guests and participants for interesting and interesting reports and called on everyone to continue to work in studying the heritage of St. Theophanes, the Recluse of Vyshensky.