Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... institutional-territorial approach for a comprehensive description of a national denominational landscape. The article aims to provide such an account by analysing relevant official data and performing statistical processing using computational tools. The focus is on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark and its administrative-territorial structures. The study places emphasis on the financial aspect, one seldom discussed in academic discourse. The denominational landscape of Denmark is a multicomponent system, with ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... language, culture and religion. Although religion is not a significant part of life for most modern Danes, with 68 % of them identifying as atheists,<20> it is still an important part of their civic identity: 75 % of Danes are members of the National Evangelical Lutheran Church.<21>
Modern Muslim ‘parallel societies’ in Denmark
Since 2011, a Social Democratic government began to make changes to Denmark’s integration policy, which were recorded in the new strategic plan 2013 — “Vulnerable ...
The functioning of the vladyka lexeme in the Ostromir Gospels of 1056—1057
This article considers the use of the Vladyka lexeme to denote God the Father, Jesus Christ, and human rulers in the Ostromir Gospels with a Greek translation. The author analyses the semantics of the Church Slavonic lexemes as an equivalent to the paired Greek words, the way the matching Greek lexemes were selected, and the effect of semantic inconsistencies on the formation of the idea of the ruler in the consciousness of Slavs. The study employs the methods of etymological, lexicographical, lexical-semantic...
The Christian right movement in the USA in the 1990s
... as the United States Approaches the Year 2000 / ed. by S. Bruce, P. Kivisto, W. H. Swatos. New Brunswick, 1995.
19. Williams D. K. God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. N. Y.,2010.
20. Wuthnow R. The Struggle for America’s Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism. Grand Rapids, 1989.
Vysotsky A.
United States of America, Christian right movement, U. S. Republican Party, election, conservatism, evangelicals, culture war
137-143
Lutheranism in Finland: past and present
... is very relevant, since Lutheranism is currently the major confession in Finland and religion tends to strongly affect the system of values and worldview prevalent in society. The article describes the administrative structure transformation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. It is argued that Finnish Lutheranism emerged in 1923. The religious and national unity of Finland contributed to bringing together the Finnish society during the Winter War, the Continuation War, and the post-war ...
Vivos Voco. Post-war Correspondence between Sergey Hessen and Ivan Lapshin: Year 1946
The letters of S. I. Hessen and I. I. Lapshin, two Russian Neo-Kantian philosophers, were written in the early post-war years. These letters bear witness to the later period in the life and work of their authors, a period of hardship, tragic losses and hopes. Both philosophers were deeply embedded in the intellectual landscape of Russian emigration. They were also known and valued by their peers in the countries that gave them refuge, Poland and Czechoslovakia, where they not only published their...
Dispute about Holbein as a dispute about faith: discussion around Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel ‘The Idiot’
... (in Russ.).
Kristeva, J., 2010. Chernoe solntse. Depressiya i melankholiya [The Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia]. Moscow (in Russ.).
Kunilsky, A. E., 1998. About the Christian context in the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky “The Idiot”. In: Evangel'skii tekst v russkoi literature XVIII — XX vekov: Tsitata, reministsentsiya, motiv, syuzhet, zhanr [Gospel Text in Russian Literature of the 18th — 20th Centuries: Quote, Reminiscence, Motif, Plot, Genre]. Petrozavodsk, 2, pp. 391—408 ...
Watershed or Cul-de-Sac? Disputes in the Theological Reception of Kant’s Philosophy
Kant’s turn to the subject has changed the epistemological conditions for theology. Four intellectual backgrounds of objections are examined: an Aristotelian and Thomistic teleological order of nature (1); Augustinianism based on original sin in which human agency is completely attributed to God’s grace (2); a Hegelian critique of the deontological conception of an “unconditional ought” which also puts Kant’s postulate of the existence of God into question (3); the combination in Radical...
Economic activity of the leading religious organizations in Estonia
... Patriarhaadi Eesti Õigeusu Kirik: majandusaasta aruanne, 2017. URL:
https://www.teatmik.ee/et/personlegal/80202812-Moskva-Patriarhaadi-Eesti
(дата обращения: 21.10.2019).
Balabeikina O. A., Martynov V. L., Iankovskaia A. A.
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Estonian Orthodox Church, religious organization, economic activity of religious organizations.
96-111
Kant als Mystiker? Zur These von Carl Arnold Wilmans’ dissertatio philosophica
Carl Arnold Wilmans received his degree of doctor in philosophy in Halle in 1797 for a bold thesis. He claimed a latent similarity between Kant’s enlightened philosophy of religion and the pure mysticism of some so-called separatists — and sent his work to Kant. The fact that and how the latter reacted to it, makes the matter all the more interesting. Could Kant have been a secret mystic? The following study attempts to give a differentiated presentation of Kant’s intellectual relationship...
Kant and the Crusians in the Debate on Optimism
n this article, which completes a two-part series on the problem of optimism in Kant’s works, I explore in detail the arguments advanced by the Crusians A. F. Reinhard and D. Weymann against the actual world as the best of all possible worlds and in favour of the actual world as one of the good worlds, Kant’s counterarguments put forward in the mid-1750s drafts and in An Attempt at Some Reflections on Optimism (1759), and further polemical attacks on this topic against Kant by D. Weymann in his...
On the Role of Gesinnung in Kant’s Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Part I
... des Rechts. In: G. W. F. Hegel, 2009. Gesammelte Werke. Volume 14, 1. Edited by Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Hamburg: Meiner.
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The child that is «not of this world» in Sergey Snegov’s novel Humans as Gods
The novel by the famous Soviet science fiction writer is analysed in the context of evangelical allusions and connotations. Biblical references in the text suggest a link between one of the main characters, the boy Astr, and the image of Christ. Although well in line with the anthropology of enlighten-ment, the idea of the salvation ...
The concept of Joy in C. S. Lewis's autobiography
... perception of the concept of Joy is identified in C. S. Lewis's spiritual autobiography «Surprised by Joy». The correlation between the author's individual and cultural-linguistic perception of the concept of Joy is analysed. The research shows that Evangelic meaning of the concept is actualized whereas a secular linguistic meaning of the concept of Joy as «pleasure, worldly happiness» is de-actualized in Lewis's text.
1. Афонина Ю. Н. Традиция Г. К. Честертона ...
The hagiographic genre of the life of Alexander (Plutarch’s Comparative biographies)
The article describes the main features of the hagiographic genre in the Life of Alexander from Plutarch’s Comparative Biographies. I use the comparative, reverse and structural-semantic methods to analyse the biography of Alexander the Great, the images of the protagonist and the narrator, the unreality and the deification of the protagonist. There is a certain typological convergence between bios as a genre and Plutarch’s ancient biographies. This convergence is reflected in the structure...
Preaching activity of Ludwig Ernst Borowski, a Königsberg pastor, during the Napoleonic wars (1806—1816)
The article explores the life of the Königsberg preacher Ludwig Ernst Borowski (1740—1831). Special attention is paid to his biography and his pastoral activities. A detailed analysis of Borowski's patriotic sermons (1806—1816) is undertaken; the idiosyncrasies of his literary style are emphasized. The main themes and subjects of pastor Borowski's sermons are vcarefully examined. The author emphasizes the significance of Borowski's personality for the intellectual and political life of Königsberg...
Don Carlos by F. Schiller in the translation of A. Mickiewicz and in the context of the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor by F. M. Dostoevsky
... drama «Don Carlos», in «The Great Improvisation» by A. Mickiewicz and the legend of The Great Inquisitor by F. Dostoevsky. It is shown that F. Dostoevsky reduces the ideology of freedom and power, typical of F. Schiller and A. Mickiewicz, to the Evangelical archetype of the three temptations of Christ and the choice between freedom and power — to a metaphysical dispute about the human soul.
1. Кибальник С. А. «Легенда о Великом инквизиторе» Ф. М....
The Denominational Space of Modern Sweden: Christianity
... the International Scientific Conference, Magas — SPb, p. 357—361.
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12. Zudov, Yu. V. 2005, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark: history, structure and contemporary condition, Severnaya Evropa: Problemy istorii [Northern Europe: Problems of History.], no. 5, p. 213—233. (In Russ.)
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The Soteriological Aspect of the Murals in the Kaliningrad Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
The article explores the main principles behind modern church paintings. The author examines the key factors affecting the structure of mural paintings and pays special attention to their semantic content. The main objective of the analysis is to identify means of expressive visualisation of the Divine Oeconomy, which is the semantic fundamental of the murals’ iconography. The author employs the methods of iconographic and iconological analysis correlating with the objectives of the study. It is...
Kant on the rights of citizens in matters of religion: The concept of religious tolerance in the German Enlightenment
The universal public law is a section of Kant’s lectures on natural right, which he delivered in 1784. A traditional part of the then natural right compendia, it might seem strange to us today. Kant distinguished between three branches of government. However, they were not identical in the name or function to the executive, legislative, and judicial powers. Of interest is the justification of the exclusion of certain powers from the monarch’s authority — the monarch must not dispense justice...
Structural characteristics of the conceptual field of ‘Mission’ in J. H. Wichern’ religious discourse
This article addresses the structure of the ‘mission’ religious conceptual field in the discourse of the German theologian J. H. Wichern. The structure of the corresponding core concept incorporates basic characteristics – representatives of group meanings and varying characteristics, i. e. the author’s interpretation of group meanings.
1. Кубрякова Е. С. О тексте и критериях его определения // Текст: Структура и семантика...
Mary Crawford Fraser and Alice Mabel Bacon on the Japanese society of the late 19th/early 20th century
This article focuses on various aspects of social and everyday life in Japan of Meiji period Japan that were discussed in the memoires of two prominent representatives of the Western world — Mary Crawford Fraser and Alice Mabel Bacon. They paid special attention not to the political transformations but rather to the everyday life of Japanese society. The author stresses the special interest of the travelers in the changes in European ladies that took place during the Meiji Revolution and their...
Cоncept of LOVE in religious consciounsness of J. H. Wichern
The article deals with the content of religious concept of LOVE in J. H. Wichern’s religious consciousness. In the article are described the conceptual indications of the concept of LOVE and is identified the structure of the concept researched.
1. Кислянская Е. А. Структурно-семантические особенности универсальных концептов в англоязычном религиозном дискурсе (на материале текста...
The monuments of late Romanticism in the architecture of East Prussia
This article considers the architecture of the second third of the 19th century in Eastern Prussia, belonging to the period of German Romanticism. The author focuses on the reasons behind the development of this trend and the role of the King of Eastern Prussia, Frederick William IV, and the architect, F.-A. Stüler, in the history and architecture of that period.
1. Каталог объектов культурного наследия Калининградской области. Калининград...
B. Pasternak’s Black Spring: the image of time (the original and English translation)
This article focuses on the 'time' concept in Boris Pasternak's “Black spring! Pick up your pen and weeping...” and its English translation by Lydia Pasternak-Slater.
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2. Достоевский Ф. М. Об искусстве. М., 1973.
3. Жолковский А. К. Поэтика Пастернака. М., 2011.
4. Лосский В. Н. Очерк мистического...
Key actors of German ‘soft power’ in the Baltics
This article focuses on Germany’s key ‘soft power’ actors promoting the country’s interests in the Baltics. The authors analyse the policies of ‘soft power’ aimed to create a positive image of Germany in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The article examines the activity of German political foundations, research institutions, communities, language centres, and scientific and cultural organisations. It is stressed that Germany makes use of the Baltics’ historical familiarity with German...
Schopenhauer and I. Kant in A. A. Fet’s philosophical and political worldview (conclusion)
The concluding part of the work focuses on the independence of A. A. Fet’s philosophical worldview strongly emphasised by the poet himself and his close friends. Although he quotes Schopenhauer and Kant, he criticised them and demonstrates an independent worldview. The author analyses the critique of Schopenhauer given in A. A. Fet’s letters. Three aspects are criticised: firstly, A. Schopenhauer’s idealism, secondly, agnosticism, and, thirdly, inconsistency, contradictions in the philosopher’s...
Schopenhauer and I. Kant in A. Fet’s philosophical and poe¬tical worldview (continuation)
This article offers an analysis of the influence of Kant’s and Schopenhauer's philosophical ideas on Fet’s worldview. The author demonstrates that the poet was not a strict follower of A. Schopenhauer, since he interpreted the German pessimist’s doctrine cum grano salis. The influence of Kant’s ideas on A. Fet was, at least, not less significant.
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2. Кант И. Критика чистого...
The chronosoteriology of the Königsberg text
This article considers the futurological potential of the experience of “salvation of time” reflected in the works of representatives of the so-called ‘Königsberg text’. Despite the differences in diagnosing the modern state of affairs, which is being reduced to the binary opposition of the ‘optimistic belief in progress’ vs the ‘apocalyptic belief in the inevitability of the end of the world’, the chronosoteriologies of the ‘Königsberg text’ represented in the works of Dach...