Pub Date : 2008-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09637498108430992
Philip Walters Acting
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Pub Date : 1991-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431517
P. Pitha
While working on the portraits of the Czech saints I made pilgrimages to their graves, to the places where they lived. During these pilgrimages, that often led through paths along Czech rivers, many memories, dreams and thoughts passed through my mind. In conclusion of the whole work I feel obliged to offer the reader the contents of my meditations from my journeys in search of our saints, for they led me to the springs of the Czech land. I offer them to you, I do not force them on you, because personal beliefs should not be forced on anyone. Luckily it is not even possible. It was clear to me that to a certain extent I was writing a historical book. Yet I felt more and more that, apart from considerable amateurishness (I am not a historical expert), I only partially follow the method used for writing historical works. At a certain point I have always left the usual paths and set out in an unusual direction of explanation. The tension between the usual view of a historian and my viewpoint forced me to think about history and historiography. I realised that in order to understand history it is not enough to know all the facts and to be able, with the aid of a chain of causes and results, to explain the mechanism of the course of history. What is important is for us to understand and feel how we o~rselves stand in the history of our nation, how the whole of historical experience is inscribed in us. Only in this way can we understand what is good for us and what harms us, what is our own, what we should' do, what we should express. This great self-recognition, which we gain by again and again considering our lives and the life of the nation, can very often make things clear to' us in details that seem apparently unimportant, yet symbolically plain. It seems to me that our saints point out remarkably well what Czech history is really about. I thought further about what our heritage is.
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Pub Date : 1991-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431520
Philip Walters
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Pub Date : 1991-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431514
Bishop Schönherr
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Pub Date : 1991-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431518
Vladimir Moss
For the last 60 years or more, the existence of the True Orthodox Church has been one of the best-kept secrets of Soviet 'reality'. The 'True Orthodox', or 'Catacomb', or 'Tikhonite' Church claims to be the direct descendant of the Russian Orthodox Church as it existed before the revolution and in the first decade after the revolution under Patriarch Tikhon and his successor, the locum tenens of the patriarchal throne, Metropolitan Petr of Krutitsy. In 1927, however, the True Orthodox argue, power in the Russian Church was usurped by one of the senior hierarchs, Metropolitan Sergi of Nizhni Novgorod, who issued a declaration in which he thanked the Soviet state for its great services to Orthodoxy, declared that the Soviet state's joys were the church's joys and its sorrows the church's sorrows, and placed himself in more or less unconditional submission to the atheist state. This declaration was rejected not only by Metropolitan Petr, the lawful head of the Russian Orthodox Church (in prison at that time), but also by most of the senior bishops of the church and a large proportion of the faithful (90 per cent of the parishes in the Urals, for example). The schism thus created was vigQlously exploited and deepened by the KGB, who sent to the camps or shot any bishop or priest who did not accept the declaration of Metropolitan Sergi, and with the active support of Sergi, who denounced his opponents as 'counter-revolutionaries' the equivalent of a death sentence in those terrible times. So those who rejected the declaration were forced to go underground, forming what came to be called the True Orthodox Church. I The True Orthodox justify thdr separation from the Moscow Patriarchate on the following grounds:
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Pub Date : 1991-12-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431513
S. Ramet
The reunification of Germany in October 1990 brought an end to an era. For the 40 years of the existence of the German Democratic Republic, Soviet military occupation of East Germany was a fact of life, the East German state attempted to construct a communist system on the Soviet model, and where religion was concerned the protestant churches played an ever greater role in harbouring political opposition to the regime and its policies. With the dismantling of the GDR, however, the churches, which had been invigorated by their politicisation, lost their unique political role, and watched helplessly as their congregations rapidly shrank. The GDR (1949-90) had the distinction of being the only communist country in which protestantism was clearly the predominant religious force. This fact, combined with the fact that Germany was a divided country, made for an almost unparalleled intensity of interaction between the churches of this society and churches in the 'moncommunist world, particularly West Germany and Austria. Clergy enjoyed an exemption from the general proscription against travel to noncommunist countries, and frequently travelled west for ecclesiastical and ecumenical meetings.
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Pub Date : 1991-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431507
Hubertus Dessloch
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Pub Date : 1991-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431499
Oto Mádr
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Pub Date : 1991-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431506
Peter Hünermann
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Pub Date : 1991-06-01DOI: 10.1080/09637499108431503
Vladimir Poresh
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