| But the Fourth Gospel, despite its generally pervasive polemic against the Jewish leaders, emphasizes a Jewish trial far less than the Synoptics do, and in the Fourth Gospel the issue is political (11:48) rather than religious ( Mark 14:64 ). 9658 Moroever, in contrast to Mark and Matthew, John «gives no indication of participation by the people»; one could read John " s narrative as if the priestly elite alone were guilty of Jesus» condemnation. 9659 2. Historicity of the Trial Narrative Some have assailed the historicity of the «trial» that occurs here; 9660 others have shown that the arguments against authenticity are at best inconclusive and at worst fallacious. 9661 Some evidence that could be adduced on the issue is questionable. Rabbinic sources acknowledge the Jewish trial of Jesus yet not the Roman trial; 9662 but the former record probably derives from a response to Jewish Christian polemic whereas the latter silence may derive from embarrassment for the need for Roman intervention 9663 or from the same polemic. 2A. Violation of Legal Procedures? Most often writers have cited against the Gospel account its incompatibility with rabbinic sources concerning proper legal procedures, 9664 but this argument is difficult to defend today. 9665 Although elements of the later Mishnaic code of legal conduct are probably early, 9666 it is tenuous to dispute the historicity of the earlier Gospel accounts of the trials (which include traditions more contemporary than those on which the Mishnah is based) on the basis of conflicts with those rules. First, the Mishnah reports Pharisaic idealizations of the law in its own day, at a period over a century later than Jesus» trial, 9667 and the ruling council in Jesus» day was hardly dominated by Pharisees. 9668 Second, rabbinic sources themselves indicate that the aristocratic priests did not always play by the rules; 9669 in fact, because elements of proper legal procedure were standard throughout Mediterranean antiquity, the Gospel writers may expect us to notice significant breaches of procedure. Unless one presupposes that the aristocratic priests (like later rabbis) would follow careful procedure even in explosive political situations–which is unlikely–an argument from Mishnaic technicalities does not work against the Gospel narrative. 9670 Sanders puts the matter best: |
| As a result, Poland’s leftist elites became incensed. Quickly, a Facebook event titled Ogólnopolski strajk kobiet (“The Nationwide Women’s Strike”) was formed, and Gazeta Wyborcza , the nation’s leading leftist paper, ran a series of front-page articles encouraging its readers to protest. Some celebrities, such as actress Krystyna Janda and television presenter Dorota Wellman, also supported the looming protests. The organizers of this event encouraged women to not come to work on Monday October 3 rd and to attend protests in 143 cities across Poland against the bill. The organizers claimed that the events were not in favor of legalizing abortion on demand, but only against adopting the bill. However, a look at the protests shows that this was not entirely true. Protesters and media misrepresentation Poland was not paralyzed by women who did not come to work on October 3 rd . I spent the day in Wroclaw, the nation’s fourth-largest city. I had various errands to run and went to the bank and a few stores, and called the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and everywhere many women were working. In the late afternoon, however, protests did take place across Poland. According to the Polish police, 20,000 people protested in Warsaw, and overall 98,000 did so across Poland. Many of the protestors were vulgar, aggressive, and sometimes violent. Placards with vulgar terms for the female genitalia and explicit signs with cartoon ovaries giving the middle finger were omnipresent. In Poznan, what could be known as the Pro-Abortion Intifada took place: protestors threw rocks at the local Law and Justice headquarters, while five policemen were assaulted by the protestors. One had to undergo surgery after his face was disfigured; another’s neck was lacerated by fireworks thrown at him. The numbers attending Monday’s protests were large, but two things must be kept in mind. First, given the pro-life revolution in Poland described above, the protestors are not representative of Polish society. Second, many large protests take place across Poland, but few gain so much support from the mainstream media. For instance, last year 20,000 pro-lifers marched against abortion in Szczecin, the same number as those who protested against pro-life measures in Warsaw this week. As Szczecin has less than a quarter of the population of Warsaw and the march received no support from any well-known public figures (except Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, who wrote a letter to the protestors praising their work), this turnout was all the more impressive. Yet the mainstream media completely ignored this. |
| The message of the Hierarchal Synod on the occasion of the military action in Kosovo had an even sharper character: “The military actions in Balkans, which have already continued for more than a month, have only worsened long-standing internecine ethnic strife on the territory of much-suffering Serbia. After fifty years of repose, bombs again are falling on European cities and villages in the name of falsely claimed ‘human values,’ which have been chosen in a biased and hypocritical manner. Right and truth are being shamelessly trampled upon without punishment. The hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad are forced to address the conscience of people who claim to be civilized, condemning their barbaric attack on the defenseless village of Orthodox Serbia, and with convinction demanding that they cease at once the murder of innocent people and the destruction of the country, thus preventing the spread of the fire of war to a yet greater territory.” After the condemnation, the hierarchs turn to directly threatening NATO: “God and His Saints are not to be abused. The blasphemous and shameless attack by a great military power against a small and defenseless people, which brings suffering to people who are not guilty of anything, both the Orthodox and non-Orthodox residents of Kosovo and all of Serbia, shall be turned back against those who have taken up this unrighteous sword. We believe, and have seen it demonstrated innumerable times in history, that retribution shall come not only in the age to come, but also in the present age. Mighty ones of this world! If you do not fear God, then fear for your own sake! For aggresion unfailingly turns back against those who set out upon its destructive path.” A message to the leaders of the NATO countries was composed in the same spirit: “We, the Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, address ourselves to administrations of the states that comprise NATO with a decisive condemnation of their military activites directed against the territory of an independent, sovereign state in the Balkans … Using human rights as a pretext, the Western members of NATO are, in their present actions, pursuing their own interests. Among other things, the West is closing its eyes to the systematic expulsion of the Serbian population from Krayna and from Kosovo. We are troubled by the fact that our flock may, in the present situation, find themselves in internal conflict between their Christian conscience and their civil duty. Therefore we call upon the responsible representatives of the states comprising NATO to return to the eternal foundations of Christian morality and consciousness.” . |
| And one can only weep over the enormity of the sufferings that it brings to the countless peoples of all nations and religions through the criminal policies and actions that it produces and empowers. Chapter seven. Various Recent Official Statements STATEMENTS ON INTERRELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND DIALOGUE The Bosporus Declaration, 1994 The Bosporus Declaration was issued in February 1994 by religious leaders of different faiths gathered in Istanbul, Turkey. It is an authoritative statement on the understanding of some of the world’s leading religions of the conflicts that have struck the former USSR and Yugoslavia. 1 . The participants in the Conference of Peace and Tolerance wish to thank the Government of Turkey for the courteous hospitality it has extended to us, an opportunity to pursue deliberations on the vital issues of peace and tolerance. The Conference wishes to recognize the contributions of President Clinton, President Demirel, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and all the other religious and political leaders who have sent messages of support. In this declaration, we wish specifically to refer to the Berne Declaration of November 26, 1992, which has given us a foundation on which to build. That declaration specifically states that “a crime committed in the name of religion is a crime against religion.” Since November 26, 1992, we have seen many crimes committed in the name of religion and we, the Conference participants, wish to speak out vigorously against them. As recent events have shown, the crimes against humanity continue in Bosnia, in Armenia-Azerbaijan, Georgia and Tajikistan. The cruelties have continued unchecked and we demand an end to this brutality. We, the undersigned, reject any attempt to corrupt the basic tenets of our Faith by means of false interpretation and unchecked nationalism. We stand firmly against those who violate the sanctity of human life and pursue policies in defiance of moral values. We reject the concept that it is possible to justify one’s actions in any armed conflict in the name of God. |
| The wave of violence against Christians in Iraq, regrettably, has not abated in recent months. On December 5, 2011, after the sermon of a certain imam, some Islamists, excited by his words, destroyed scores of shops, houses and other facilities belonging to Christians in Zakho, a town with 200 000 inhabitants. After the pogroms against Christians in Zakho, violence spread to neighbouring towns. In December 2011, in the Iraqi city of Mosul, one of the Christian minority centers in the country, members of an Islamist group shot to death a Christian married couple. A few days before that, a group of armed militants set on fire Christian shops in Zakho and Duhok. At least 30 people were injured. On January 11, a terror attack was carried out on the residence of the Chaldean Catholic archbishop in Kirkuk. In Iran, there are at least half a million Christians, mostly Assyrians and Armenians. These Christians have their own churches there and an opportunity for confessing their faith. The government shows tolerance towards other religious minorities as well, for instance, Zoroastrians. An Orthodox church has been acting in Tehran for almost 70 years now. It belongs to the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, cases of discrimination against Christians have happened there too. For instance, a public outcry was aroused by the decision of the court of the Islamic Republic of Iran made on September 22, 2010, sentencing 32 year-old evangelical pastor Yusef Nadarkhani to death for his conversion from Islam to Christianity. Nadarkhani was arrested in 2009. His arrest was preceded by his appeal to the authorities, disputing the law of the Gilan Province whereby all schoolchildren, his son among them, were obliged to study the Qur’an. According to the investigation, the pastor conducted church services in his house, preached the gospel and baptized those who embraced Christianity. He directed the work of 400 home churches in Iran. In June 2011, the court ordered that the execution be postponed and his case be referred back to Gilyan for a review. It was repeatedly suggested to Pastor Nadarkhani that he should renounce the Christian faith so that he could escape execution but he refused to do it. At present Nadarkhani’s fate depends on the Supreme Leader of the country, Ayatollah Khamenei, who is to deliver an official final verdict. |
| Since March at least five churches have been destroyed, tens of Christians killed and hundreds injured. There have been no trials of Islamists who incited these attacks. Meanwhile, Christian protesters met the most gruesome attack ever seen in Egyptian streets when military vehicles drove into the crowd of Coptic Christian demonstrators on 9th October 2011. More than 20 Copts were crushed under army vehicles or shot by the military police that night. Subsequently, there were arrests of more than two thousand people who were held without charge under the emergency law. On the legislative level, the ambiguous, and sometimes incongruous, approach undertaken by the government during this transitional period meant that Egypt was unprepared to hold a constitutional referendum and parliament election processes. Most notably, the inability to implement a law that prohibits using religious slogans in elections led Islamists to polarize Egyptians to two opposing camps: those for and those against Islamic law. The religious and politically unaware Egyptians decided to stand for religion and this automatically brought a striking victory for the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties in the parliamentary elections. This contentious approach, which grinds against the goals of the revolution, has ensured that a renewed demonstration on January 25th this year is an ineluctable event. A new scene Although the attitude of the new regime is bringing Egyptian society back to the time of Mubarak, the political scene has changed considerably. In preparation for the coming protests, we now know that Islamists are satisfied enough with their electoral success that do not need to join the coming uprisings. This means that the momentum of the protests will not face the governmental executive body, but also the new legislative body of those who won the majority of the parliament seats. Other institutions will no longer be able control their followers as before. This includes two religious bodies: the Coptic Church and Egypt’s official Islamic body, al-Azhar . One of the fruitful outcomes of this revolution was to restore the Copts’ place in the Egyptian street without being marked as Christian. The Coptic patriarchate, which is the state church that has been loyal to the regime for the last 60 years, has been taming the increasing Coptic wrath against sectarian violence. This does not work anymore and Copts today joined their Muslim fellows in the street protests. The speech of Patriarch Shenouda III against the Coptic community’s rejection of his decision to receive SCAF members in the congregation for the Christmas liturgy did not work this time, at least on the rising new generation who believe in separating politics from religion. |
| State-run media launched a massive campaign to discredit the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was wrongly accused of secretly supporting “separatists,” allegedly organizing armories at churches and refusing to conduct burial services for the deceased Ukrainian soldiers. In various regions, leaflets of extremist content were distributed calling for the destruction of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. During the pre-election tour in January-March 2019, Petro Poroshenko systematically made coarse and slanderous attacks on the canonical Church. He was imitated by other politicians, for example, Chairman of the Supreme Rada Andrey Parubiy and a Member of Parliament Dmitry Yarosh who declared that the hierarchy of the canonical Church “is not the servants of God, but the agent network of the FSB and Putin,”, and that “hunting those Muscovite priests who faithfully serve Putin and Patriarch Kirill pleases God and our Motherland.” The state-supported information campaign against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church provoked a surge of attacks on its churches and holy places: there were dozens of acts of vandalism, robbery and arson. Outside the zone of armed conflict, in the territory controlled by Kiev, at least 81 churches were damaged in the years 2016-2018. At the end of 2018 - the beginning of 2019, this list was supplemented by the burning of churches in Rzhishchev and Krivoy Rog, and by an attack on a church in Kiev itself. Threats are still being made to seize the largest monasteries from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The state took measures to change the status of the buildings of the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra, so that it could be transferred to another religious organization. At the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, the Supreme Rada adopted discriminatory laws against the canonical Church. On 20 th December 2018, a law was passed to change the name of religious organizations, “which are a part of the structure of a religious organization, whose administrative center is outside Ukraine — in the state which, as recognized by the law, committed military aggression against Ukraine and/or temporarily occupied a part of the territory of Ukraine.” The law is aimed against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, forbidding it call intself “Ukrainian,” although it is the oldest and largest of the country " s currently existing religious organizations that unites millions of its citizens. |
| This verse means that Christ reigns until He has put, after long protracted warfare, all enemies under His feet. The reign of Christ, therefore, is not a millennium of peace, but a perpetual conflict ending in a final triumph. 424 Thus, invested with “all authority in heaven and on the earth,” Christ has been ruling, even “subduing in the midst of his enemies,” ever since his resurrection and exaltation to the throne of God. Who are these “enemies” and in what way has Christ been “subduing” them since then? C6: Ruling “in the midst of his enemies” At Psalm 110:5 subjugated are portrayed as earthly kings and nations: Jehovah himself at your right hand will certainly break kings to pieces on the day of his anger. He will execute judgement among the nations; he will cause a fullness of dead bodies. He will certainly break to pieces the head one over a populous land. 425 In the New Testament, however, the attention is turned from the visible enemies to the hostile powers of the spiritual world. Undoubtedly, the reason for this is that destruction of earthly kings and nations hostile to Christ’s kingdom will not free the universe from the real enemies – the spiritual powers, who by means of sin and its consequence, death, keep men in slavery. As Paul explains, our wrestling is “not against blood and flesh, but again st the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places.’ – Ephesians 6:12 NW. It is these spiritual powers that the New Testament writers, at 1Corinthians 15:24 Christ’s pnmary enemies, which he has been combatting and finally will bring “to nothing.” 426 Empowered with “all authority in heaven and on earth” it would, of course, have been an easy matter for Christ to instandy bring to nothing all these hostile powers. Some Bible passages actually present the warfare as already won at Christ’s resurrection and exaltation, and the powers as already conquered and subjected. (Colossians 2:15 however, is evidently used to describe Christ’s allembracing power and elevated position since his resurrection, “far above every government and authority and power.” (Ephesians 1:21 of the letter to the Hebrews clarifies, there is more involved, as “we do not yet see all things in subjection to him.”–Hebrews 2:8 |
| Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также EU pro-life petition surpasses 1.8 million signatures EU pro-life petition surpasses 1.8 million signatures The One of Us pro-life group " s petition states that " the EU should establish a ban and end the financing of activities which presuppose the destruction of human embryos " . Dozens of Congressmen speak out against Roe v. Wade as 41st anniversary nears Dozens of Congressmen speak out against Roe v. Wade as 41st anniversary nears Nearly two dozen pro-life lawmakers took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to condemn the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Roe v. Wade Wednesday, just one week before the 41st anniversary of the infamous ruling, which legalized abortion throughout America. 250,000 people take part in rally against abortions in the capital of Peru 250,000 people take part in rally against abortions in the capital of Peru This information was given by the organizers of the demonstration, called " a pro-life march " , which took place under the leadership of the Archbishop of the Peruvian capital and with participation of various public groups, who are opposing abortions. Religious precession against abortions took place in Serbia Religious precession against abortions took place in Serbia On April 7, the first religious procession against abortions in Serbia and also in all other Orthodox countries took place in Belgrade. Holy Patriarch of Serbia Irineus blessed the procession. Hey Liberals: If You Want Birth Control, Just Go Buy It, No One is Stopping You Hey Liberals: If You Want Birth Control, Just Go Buy It, No One is Stopping You Look, I’m going to be diplomatic about this: every moment, modern American liberalism continues to plunge deeper and deeper into a state that can be charitably described as a dark and hellish insanity. Fr. Seraphim Galik—One Soldier on the Field Priest Seraphim Galik, Irina Akhundova Fr. Seraphim Galik—One Soldier on the Field Priest Seraphim Galik, Irina Akhundova One day an old woman came up to him and said, “It’s so good that you’re standing here. I killed my child and even now 40 years later I am still crying.” Fr. Seraphim has dedicated his life to helping assure that there will be as few such women as possible. © 1999-2015 Православие.Ru |
| Азбука веры Православная библиотека пресвитер Климент Александрийский The Stromata Пожертвовать Вход пресвитер Климент Александрийский The Stromata Источник BOOK III BOOK V Скачать epub pdf BOOK IV Chapter 1. Order of Contents It will follow, I think, that I should treat of martyrdom, and of who the perfect man is. With these points shall be included what follows in accordance with the demands of the points to be spoken about, and how both bond and free must equally philosophize, whether male or female in sex. And in the sequel, after finishing what is to be said on faith and inquiry, we shall set forth the department of symbols; so that, on cursorily concluding the discourse on ethics, we shall exhibit the advantage which has accrued to the Greeks from the barbarian philosophy. After which sketch, the brief explanation of the Scriptures both against the Greeks and against the Jews will be presented, and whatever points we were unable to embrace in the previous Miscellanies (through having respect necessarily to the multitude of matters), in accordance with the commencement of the poem, purposing to finish them in one commentary. In addition to these points, afterwards on completing the sketch, as far as we can in accordance with what we propose, we must give an account of the physical doctrines of the Greeks and of the barbarians, respecting elementary principles, as far as their opinions have reached us, and argue against the principal views excogitated by the philosophers. It will naturally fall after these, after a cursory view of theology, to discuss the opinions handed down respecting prophecy; so that, having demonstrated that the Scriptures which we believe are valid from their omnipotent authority, we shall be able to go over them consecutively, and to show thence to all the heresies one God and Omnipotent Lord to be truly preached by the law and the prophets, and besides by the blessed Gospel. Many contradictions against the heterodox await us while we attempt, in writing, to do away with the force of the allegations made by them, and to persuade them against their will, proving by the Scriptures themselves. |
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