Sentences with phrase «russian orthodoxy»

Our parish is grounded in the liturgical traditions of Russian Orthodoxy.

Inside the vast fortified compound you will find three cathedrals, the Patriarch's Palace, a church and the bell tower of Ivan the Great, and together these buildings are the holiest sites of Russian Orthodoxy — Moscow's Vatican, if you like.

In one sense, it is no longer Russia as a country, but Russian Orthodoxy as a supranational movement, that is becoming a geopolitical factor.

Bishop McQuaid, the curmudgeonly «conservative,» initially opposed the definition of papal infallibility at Vatican I. Archbishop Ireland, the quintessential «liberal,» ruthlessly drove Eastern - rite Catholic emigrants and their married clergy out of the archdiocese of St. Paul and indeed out of the Church (thus earning himself the ironic title, among some wags, of «father of Russian Orthodoxy in America»).

The Moscow Patriarchate collaborated directly with the Soviet secret police to orchestrate this event, which supposedly put an end to the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church by «re-uniting» it with Russian Orthodoxy.

After Stalin rehabilitated the ROC in his campaign to ramp up Russian nationalism after the German invasion of June 1941, the leadership of Russian Orthodoxy, the Patriarchate of Moscow, became a wholly - owned subsidiary of the Soviet regime, and specifically of its secret police, the KGB.

Russian Orthodoxy in the U.S. he found incorrigibly quarrelsome.

I infer from Kevin Martin's questions about papal power that he thinks that Dostoevsky would have balked at John Paul's anti «Communist mission, even though Russian Orthodoxy was among its major beneficiaries, because papal realpolitik is un «Christian and should never be enlisted even in the cause of Christ's Kingdom, which is not of this world.

Today's ideologized Russian Orthodoxy looks like a Slavic version of Japanese Shintoism.

On January 21, three bearded, robed monks from Kyiv's Monastery of the Caves, one of Russian Orthodoxy's most holy sites, unexpectedly stepped into this embattled zone.

As head of external relations for the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hilarion is responsible for talking to global Christianity on behalf of the 150 million people in Russian Orthodoxy worldwide.

Traditional Russian Orthodoxy continues to be increasingly conflated with a sense of Russian patriotism and nationalism, so many believe the government will keep pushing against the freedoms of minority faiths.

Born in Russia and steeped in Russian Orthodoxy, Sorokin spent time in jail because of his resistance to the Czar.

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

The worldview of Russian Orthodoxy is holistic and organic.

Russians see faith as inherently public and political, and a Russian does not need to embrace Russian Orthodoxy in order to take these traditions seriously.

Rather, Russians see faith as inherently public and political, and a Russian does not need to embrace the current state of Russian Orthodoxy as the de facto state religion in order to take these traditions seriously.

Similarly, one can not understand Russian politics without reference to Russian Orthodoxy and the influence this faith has had on the formation of the predominant worldview in Russian culture.

Vitaly Vlasenko, director of external relations for the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians - Baptists, instead blamed controversy and concern surrounding Russian Orthodoxy, including the patriarch's decision to meet with Pope Francis.

The panel brought together former Democratic and Republican administration officials and scholars of Russian Orthodoxy.

But the defence of faith and lifestyle which is Russian Orthodoxy tolerates other faiths except «where an alien faith and alien standards of life have been imposed on our people by force or by proselytism» (p. 4).

(6) Such a new ecumenical initiative would, over time, create the conditions for the possibility of a Russian Orthodoxy that is not in thrall to Russian state power, and that could be a partner in the re-evangelization of Europe because its leadership had rediscovered the power of the Gospel.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

Not exact matches

Many people in America, Western Europe and East Asia would welcome a Russian initiative that would break from the monetarist orthodoxy that the IMF and U.S. AID have imposed on third world countries, East Asian economies (including even Japan) and other regimes throughout the world.

In the east, the Russian czars, jealous of the religious power of Kiev, made the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church the dominant force of eastern orthodoxy.

The Church believes that the explanation is both simple and powerful: Orthodoxy helps Russians understand who they are as a people and what makes Russia unique among the world's nations.

Instead, the expansion of the Church into society reflects a belief that Orthodoxy has a powerful and enduring influence over the Russian imagination.

In its 1.0 phase, Church Revival failed to address its top priority: «churching» those who were attracted to Orthodoxy, which meant catechizing Russians and incorporating them into the Church.

True, some Evangelical leaders have spoken well lately of Vladimir Putin, who makes Orthodoxy a major part of his public image, and some Evangelical organizations have cooperated with the Russian Orthodox Church in international conferences on the family.

Gathering for the first time in nearly 1,000 years to jointly address the record levels of modern - day persecution of Christians, the leaders of Roman Catholicism and Russian Eastern Orthodoxy wrote:

After Constantinople fell in 1453, Ukrainian Orthodoxy became part of the Russian Church, which declared Moscow to be the Third Rome, now entrusted with defending Christian civilization in the East.

In contrast, representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate (the dominant branch of Orthodoxy in Ukraine and under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church) called on the churches not to take a political position.

For this kind of nationalistic Orthodoxy, to be Ukrainian means not to be Russian.

If you were to ask these Russians about the theological issues that differentiate Orthodoxy from the West, few would be able to give a coherent response.

The greatest threat to Orthodoxy today is that of being reduced to an expression of Russian nationalism — adopting the Christ of culture stance that many Western observers have mistakenly associated it with all along.

When in his journals he speaks of Orthodoxy in America, it is not always clear whether he means the OCA or the more hard - line traditionalists of the Russian émigré community, the line between the two being frequently blurred.

The Russian émigrés, who did not share his vision of Orthodoxy's universal mission, were the cause of endless frustration.

It is the religious aspect of the conflict that may prove to be the most significant, because Moscow Orthodoxy has been presented as the thing holding the «Russian world» together, and thereby as the main actor in the bloody Russian Spring.

The Democrats with all the devices available at their outfits could not stop the Russians, Holland is not using the biometric system in its elections because of the infiltrations going on and most western nations have decided to reverse to the old electoral orthodoxies because of the manipulations going on.

Years later, I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy and started going to a parish whose origins lie in Russian Orthodox.