俄国东正教驻北京传教士团医生考略

在早期中俄关系史上,俄国东正教驻北京传教士团扮演了文化使者和外交机构双重角色.自1820年起,俄国定期向中国派遣传教士团随团医生.这些医生除具有传教士团成员所共有的特性外,由于本身的职业特点,在随传教士团驻北京期间的活动又各有千秋.本文通过梳理和分析随团医生及他们来华的原因、在华主要活动,进而由点及面,透视俄国东正教驻北京传教士团在中俄关系史上所起的特殊作用及深远影响.     

1917年前俄国东正教传教团在华开立学堂考略

俄国传教团在华办学经历了近百年历史。从1822年至19世纪末,传教团仅限于在北京城及周边农村开立学堂,招收对象主要是雅克萨战役俄俘后裔和贫苦家庭子弟。庚子之变之后,为扩大在中国的宗教影响,进而达到文化侵略的目的,传教团开始将办学范围扩展至直隶、河南、湖北、江西、江苏及浙江等省。然而受各种条件制约,俄人所办学堂大多规模偏小,存在时间不长,在人才培养上也少有建树。     

美国新无神论晚近勃兴初探

新无神论是21世纪美国最引人注目的一个宗教文化现象,它对具有浓郁宗教色彩的美国社会价值观提出了质疑和挑战,引发了美国宗教文化界的巨大震荡和空前论战。本文对新无神论在美国的突起、新无神论的一般特征和主要论点、对新无神论的回应与诘难、新无神论勃兴的缘由等做了介绍和探讨,揭示了美国宗教文化界这场大论战的来龙去脉。     

The Human Rights Debate in the External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church

Abstract

This article analyses the ideological and institutional context of the document The Russian Orthodox Church's Basic Teaching on Human Dignity, Freedom and Rights (Osnovy ucheniya Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkvi o dostoinstve, svobode i pravakh cheloveka), issued by the Bishops' Council of the Moscow Patriarchate in 2008, with the particular aim of shedding light on its nature as an instrument of the external relations and foreign politics of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Through a documentation of the milestones in the Russian Orthodox human rights discourse and through a semantic analysis of the key terms used, the article shows how the ROC's rhetorical self-positioning vis-à-vis the liberal human rights regime changes over time and shifts from an outright opposition to a more conciliatory attitude. The article is based on internet sources, in particular various websites related to Russian Orthodox institutions, as well as observations and interview material.     

Jung and the mystical theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church: Comments on common ground

The authors present a comparison of the cosmological, theological, and anthropological assumptions that underlie the mystical traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Church and certain of Jung's mystical observations about the universe, God, and humankind. It is argued that, one touchstone of scientific validity being the universality of observations independently made, the common ground of the two divergent systems of Eastern Orthodox and Jungian mysticism suggests a universality and scientific validity in Jung's assumptions about the great unknown.Bishop Chrysostomos is Academic Director of the Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies at the St. Gregory Palamas Monastery in Etna, CA. He received his doctorate in psychology at Princeton University.     

试析东正教的遁世主义修道理念在拜占廷时期的发展

遁世主义修道理念是从基督教的原始修道模式中演绎出来的修道思想。该理念虽然在西部基督教世界早已被异化为入世主义修道观,但却在东部得以延续至今,并对东正教的修道活动和灵性生活都产生了重要影响。遁世主义理念的延续,主要源于在拜占廷时期的发展。本文欲以拜占廷社会为背景,对该理念发展的基本脉络、主要特征和形成原因加以探讨,借以阐明遁世主义修道理念延续至今的历史必然性和历史意义。     

The Revival of Orthodox Mission in New Borders and the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

One of the critical issues emphasized at the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in Crete in 2016 was that of the witness of Orthodoxy in the modern world, as expressed in the Message and Encyclical of the council, and in the council document on the Mission of the Orthodox Church. This paper traces the revival of foreign mission and witness within the Orthodox Church since the late 1950s and how it came to fruition at the council in Crete.     

Contemporary Thinking on the Role and Ministry of Women in the Orthodox Church

The article is concerned with contemporary Orthodox thinking on the role of women in the Church. This topic is explored in the context of Orthodox theology, tradition and history. The starting point for Orthodox theology as regards the division of humanity into masculine and feminine is fundamental to understanding the Orthodox Church's view on the past, present and future role of women. In particular, the current issues of restoring the female diaconate and ordaining women to the priesthood present a significant challenge to the Orthodox Church in its understanding of the meaning of faithfulness to tradition and its discernment of the work of the Holy Spirit.     

The Perspectives and Challenges of Primacy and Synodality in the Orthodox Church Today

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in 2016 should be perceived and received as a genuine manifestation of synodality at the beginning of the 21st century. It has reminded us that it is within the exercise of primacy and synodality at the universal level that the unity and the orthodoxy of the church is guaranteed. Its message referred to the proposal for the Holy and Great Council to become a regular institution to be convened every seven or ten years. By saying this, the Holy and Great Council has perhaps inaugurated a new era of synodality in the Orthodox Church on the universal level. This is perhaps the greatest contribution of the Holy and Great Council in an era of globalization, when the pastoral problems encountered by each local autocephalous church, due to a growing secularization of the world, are very similar and need a common synodal response.