Studia Humanitatis

На Святом и Великом Соборе-2016, состоявшемся на Крите, была поднята и заострена проблема этнофилетизма. Отсутствующие делегации арабов, русских, грузин и болгар на пленарном заседании были осуждены в этнофилетизме. Таким образом, ересь этнофилетизма, впервые провозглашенная на Константинопольском Соборе 1872 года, вновь стала актуальной. В настоящей статье мы исследуем два вопроса: каким образом и почему эта ересь появилась на свет и можно ли считать этнофилетизм ересью? В заключительной части исследования на основе архивных документов повествуется о дальнейшем развитии церковного конфликта после русско-турецкой войны 1877-1878 гг. до конца XIX века. Подведены итоги исследования.

The vision of a beautiful and good world, a characteristic of the Christian religion, comes as a solution to the "depression” of modern times. Humans have within their nature a tendency towards spiritual fulfilment, through the intermediary of faith and good deeds. Hope for a better world, be it actual or eschatological, is a virtue which develops an optimistic idea of the world, a wish for communication and an impulse for acting upon it. Positive psychology rediscovers the optimistic natural dimension of humans and the mechanisms through which this can be achieved. The Orthodox worship can be considered a similar mechanism if it preserves free spirit and ludic engagement in meeting with God, different from the stress fuelled by instrumentalisation of liturgy in an act of magical kind. Those who take part in the worship are filled with optimism and hope, the motive behind which study maintains a pastoral Orthodox liturgy, based on direct experience and active participation.

The article deals with the history and the problems of the Russian Orthodox Church in Denmark – and here seen in a Danish-Russian historical perspective, especially, in the last 300 years. The relations between the Danes and the Orthodox Church began, however, around 900 years before, in the Eastern European state of Kievan Rus. The article shows that the history of the church is closely linked to the political development in Russia. In this article, the history of the church and the changing Russian congregations will be illuminated in a historical perspective so that both the church and church buildings will throw a new light on the role of the Russian Church in both Danish and Russian history. In addition, it will be analysed to what extent trade policy, strategy and power policy and family relations have influenced the role and position of the Russian Church in Danish history.