Athonite period of Archbishop Vasily"s (Krivoshein"s) life in documents. Vol.15 (gold embossed)
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More recently, speaking at a conference in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Metropolitan Ilarion stated the hostile attitude of many modern monks towards science: “Speaking of modern Russian monasticisms, we have to admit that we do not have“ scientific monasteries ”, there are almost no scientific monks, and distrust of distrust To science, education and enlightenment, as before, despite the efforts made by the Holy Principles to increase the educational level of monks and monks, is firmly preserved in the monastic environment. The reason for this provision is the idea that scientific is not needed for salvation, that it is incompatible with humility and monastic ascetic work. Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) said: "Do not leave the science of secular, because it serves to round the spiritual sciences." We need scientific monks! And in order for them to appear with us, "scientific monasteries" must be created, where the monks could study, they would have the time and opportunity to read, write, engage in theology. ” For several centuries, such a “forge of personnel” was Panteleimonov Monastery on Athos. The activities of the scientists of the monks of the Panteleimon monastery are universally known: the father of Azaria (Poptsov), the father of Matthew (Olshansky) and others. But the tragic events of the 20th century reduced and practically destroyed this tradition. One of the last “scientists of the monks” living in this monastery was the monk Vasily (Krivoshei) (1900-1985) The officer, scientist, theologian, the monk, the archbishop - the whole life of Vsevolod Alexandrovich Krivoshein, who later became Vladyka Vasily, is extremely interesting in itself. The events of the 20th century - revolutions, wars, geopolitical confrontations, the struggle of ideologies, sometimes open, and often “undercover” - twisted and carried it in their funnel so that sometimes God"s presence and intercession became so obvious that his own words, assigned to himself To himself - “Saved by God!”, - truly prophetic
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Religion & Spiritually
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
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Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-521-17644-1
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