Ipatievsky Vestnik № 4 (16), 2021

The article examines the issue related to the identification of the ancient Egyptian goddess Maat with Her Wife Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs of Solomon. The author examines the features of the cult of Maat and the specifics of the image of the Wife of Wisdom in the context of the historical era. The reader is offered the main theses that can lead to this identification and their analysis is offered. When working on the article, new foreign studies in this field were used.

The author analyzes the political situation in Judea at the beginning of the first century BC. and highlights the reasons for the establishment of Roman rule in it. Special attention is paid to the activities of Gnaeus Pompey, who managed to take advantage of the political crisis in Judea during the power struggle between the representatives of the Hasmonean dynasty. This allowed Pompey to invade Judea in 63 BC and establish a Roman protectorate over it. This served as a prologue for the transformation of Judea into a province of Rome in 6 BC.

This article presents theses about the human disease as a phenomenon related to the whole of human nature, represented not only by the body, but also by the soul. For a believer, the disease acquires special significance in the light of the New Testament teaching about spiritual perfection. Consideration of the problem of the disease based solely on the representation as a consequence of punishment for sins is overcome by the Orthodox theological tradition. Outside of the Christian perception, the disease is perceived as nonsense.

This article presents the concept of moral theology of Professor, Archpriest Theodore Alexandrovich Golubinsky. The proposed model is based on the materials of articles and sermons that have been published in various periodicals, in sections devoted to Christian morality.

This article, as well as the previously published collection of materials on the 19th century, presents in chronological order the texts from various sources collected by the author for writing a book about Theodorovskaya Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. All dates in the text are given according to the old style, abbreviations are disclosed without additional reservations or (in case of their possible ambiguity) by means of square brackets, the author's explanations are highlighted in square brackets. Quoting is done primarily in accordance with modern spelling and punctuation standards.

The paper is devoted to a rare genealogical incident — the ancestral memorial note of Archimandrite Theodosius of the Trinity Ipatievsky Monastery in one of the synodics of this monastery. The record shows the direct relatives of the senior priest with degrees of kinship, as well as the persons with whom he was in spiritual kinship and communion. The memorial records of the family of Archimandrite Theodosius, together with the records in other synodics, allow us to restore the early period of his life and build a genealogical tree of his family over four generations and include relatives from his mother and wife, which is rare for synodic records.

The article briefly describes the biography of Archpriest George Studentsky and the life of the parish of the Resurrection Church of the village of Fud in 1975-1990

This article presents the memoirs of Archpriest Nikolai Pavlovich Troitsky, a graduate of the Kostroma Theological Seminary in 1899.

The practice of catechetical talks is once again becoming relevant and in demand. At the general church level, a decision was made on the mandatory passage of these talks by parishioners before participating in the Sacraments of Baptism and Wedding. Methodological guidelines for catechization have been developed. The purpose of the article is to analyze the conduct of catechetical talks in the churches of the Minsk Diocese.

The article is dedicated to the little-known American group of "patriarch" Francis Christopher Michael Mayer "Autocephalous Greek International Orthodox Christian Church - Canonical Orthodox Patriarchate of Pietermaritzburg and all Eastern states" "Orthodox Patriarch". Actively using social networks, Mayer pretends to be the head of a large non-canonical jurisdiction with the dioceses in Africa, America and Asia. She herself has communication with a number of similar non-canonical groups around the world. Despite the loud names and activity in the Internet space, in fact, both believers and clerics are absent in this jurisdiction.

The article examines the role of the Orthodox Church in the penitentiary system of the Russian Empire of the XIX - early XX centuries in the provinces of the North-Western region.

This article presents some letters from the correspondence between P.A. Florensky and A.S. Mamontova, which illustrate the external and internal conditions, emotional experiences in the conditions of life in revolutionary Russia.

The article attempts for the first time to explain the origin of the prayer formula "Save and Protect", which is applied to Orthodox crosses of the Russian tradition. The author substantiates the origin of the formula in Russia on the basis of widespread liturgical texts at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries and its strengthening in the production of church utensils after the weakening of censorship in 1905. At the moment, there are no early works on this topic from the history of Russian piety.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of the formation and development of the singing tradition and liturgical singing in Russia. The historical stages of the development of church singing, the specifics of the formation and features of the kondakar, pillar, track and demestny chants are highlighted. Various views and points of view of historians on the origins, development trends and significance of church singing in the period of the 9th-17th centuries are analyzed.

Рецензия на: Безик Георгий, свящ. Православное военное духовенство в годы Первой мировой войны: организация, деятельность, значение. Монография. — Кострома: Костромская духовная семинария, 2021. — 116 с.

Рецензия на: Богословские аспекты деятельности православного военного духовенства Русской императорской армии в годы Первой мировой войны. — Кострома: Костромская духовная семинария, 2021. — 68 с.