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A moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life, and one man's struggles with faith, family, and community
Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely.
Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
With a new subject and scriptural index, as well as a short
abstract on Nikolai Gogol as a religious personality, this reedited
commentary on the Divine Liturgy the primary public worship service
of the Orthodox Church is as practical as it is mystical. Gogol,
one of the most prominent Russian writers of the 19th century,
draws from the early Church Fathers and his own experience to
explain the sublime mystery of the Orthodox divine services. In
doing so, he also provides a fascinating look into his own
religious character and profound liturgical spirituality.
This book presents the results of comprehensive study on the
history of Soviet Armenia and the Armenian Church in the years
1920-32. Through documents uncovered in the Communist Party Archive
in Yerevan and the Georgian Historical Archive, press antireligious
propaganda, oral testimonies, and biographical interviews conducted
by the author, The Armenian Church in Soviet Armenia expands the
discussion on the history of the Armenian Church in the 20th
century, especially regarding the relations between the spiritual
leaders of the Armenian Church and the Bolsheviks. In accordance
with stipulations laid out by the Central Committee in consultation
with the GPU, Khoren Muradbekian was elected as the Catholicos of
All Armenians. His election was the principal reason behind the
schism inside the Church- which, especially in the Armenian
diaspora, divided not only clergy, but laymen themselves. These
divisions, even after hundred years, are still vivid in Armenian
society.
Matthew Briel examines, for the first time, the appropriation and
modification of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of providence by
fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian Gennadios Scholarios.
Briel investigates the intersection of Aquinas's theology, the
legacy of Greek patristic and later theological traditions, and the
use of Aristotle's philosophy by Latin and Greek Christian thinkers
in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. A Greek Thomist
reconsiders our current understanding of later Byzantine theology
by reconfiguring the construction of what constitutes "orthodoxy"
within a pro- or anti-Western paradigm. The fruit of this
appropriation of Aquinas enriches extant sources for historical and
contemporary assessments of Orthodox theology. Moreover,
Scholarios's grafting of Thomas onto the later Greek theological
tradition changes the account of grace and freedom in Thomistic
moral theology. The particular kind of Thomism that Scholarios
develops avoids the later vexing issues in the West of the de
auxiliis controversy by replacing the Augustinian theology of grace
with the highly developed Greek theological concept of synergy. A
Greek Thomist is perfect for students and scholars of Greek
Orthodoxy, Greek theological traditions, and the continued
influence of Thomas Aquinas.
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All Is Well
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Albert S Rossi; Foreword by John Abdalah
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