IN GOD WE TRUST

Perhaps they were prompted to the chronicler by an authoritative tradition, in particular literary. This tradition was part of medieval symbolic knowledge, the scholarship possessed by the authors and their readers. It is well known that in old French literature — the heroic songs of the royal cycle, which reflected an earlier period of the struggle of Christians and Muslims (the campaigns of Charlemagne or the events of the Reconquista), a similar image of the Saracens already existed, and it was well known to the crusaders...

Several such fantastic stories can be found already in the chronicles of the First Crusade. Here is one of these stories. June 2, 1098, after a grueling siege, the armies of the crusaders captured Antioch. Emir Yagi-Sian escaped from the fortress, and a few days later the numerous troops of Atabek Mosul Kerboga, who arrived at the request of the son of Yagi-Sian, Shams al-Daula, surrounded the city. The Christian knights, who had recently besieged Antioch, themselves found themselves in the position of the besieged...

In the history of Muslim-Christian contacts, the Crusades were an important stage. It was at this time that Western Europe opened up opportunities for direct communication with the Muslim world. Did a closer acquaintance with the Muslim East engender new Christian attitudes towards Islam, did this acquaintance expand knowledge about Muslims and overcome past stereotypes? It is possible to judge what ideas about Islam were formed at this time only on the basis of chronicles of the Crusades, in...

The division of cultures into eastern and western ones captures not only their territorial location, but also the characteristics of the methods and ways of knowing the world, value orientation, basic worldviews, socioeconomic and political structures. In modern cultural studies, “West” means European and American culture, and “East” means the cultures of the countries of Central, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. For the Middle Ages, this division depends on whether this issue is considered from a Eurocentric or global point of view...

Philosophical and historical studies always have a certain practical orientation. Comprehending the past, we strive to understand the present, to determine the development trends of modern society. In this sense, solving the question of the correlation of Western and Eastern cultures of civilizations, and also Russia's place in this dialogue, acquires special importance and relevance to us. This problem has often been raised before in the work of philosophers and sociologists. Now it...

I want to add that this relative character of Christianity is determined today by its departure from Western civilization. Prior to the Second Vatican Council, the historical image of Christianity as a typically western one prevailed. If you look at the twenty-century history of Christianity, we can distinguish the first — a relatively short, period of Judeo-Christianity; the second is a very long and culturally homogeneous period of civilization that arose in the Mediterranean basin. After...

The study of the meaning of the diversity of religions in God's plan is one of the most relevant sections of modern theology. At the same time, it should be recognized that the theology of non-Christian religions is taking only the first steps. We are forced to note that in this area, as in others, local practice is ahead of theological research itself. Missionary work, especially in relation to representatives of other great religions, has undergone a serious evolution, while entire sections...

Https://www.Pexels.Com/ru-ru/photo/2870587/ Buddhism — originated in ancient India in the XI-v centuries. BC. The founder is Siddhartha Gautama. The main directions of Theravada and Mahayana. The heyday of Buddhism in India — v century...

Religion as a phenomenon inherent in human society throughout its history and covering so far the overwhelming part of the world's population, is nevertheless an area inaccessible and at least incomprehensible to very many people. It can be viewed from two sides: from the outside, that is, as it appears to an outside observer, and from the inside, which is revealed to the believer and living in accordance with the spiritual and moral principles of this religion. From the outside, religion...

Over the past 40 years, a vast scientific, and after that popularizing, literature has appeared in the West devoted to the problems of Islamic-Christian dialogue. Today we can already speak with confidence about the emergence of a fundamentally new interdisciplinary scientific and theological direction in humanitarian knowledge. Interdisciplinary — since the study of dialogue necessarily involves a combination of different methods and skills of sciences such as comparative religious studies, oriental studies, hermeneutics, theology ...

Christians began to celebrate Easter. For the church this is the greatest feast. His traditional understanding is connected with the idea of Jesus as an incarnate God who came to the world to redeem people from the power of original sin and death. This atonement, according to Christian tradition, occurred on the cross. In Christian mysticism, the death of Jesus means the end of the power of the nature of Adam, and the resurrection of Jesus will give humanity a new, qualitatively different life....

The topic of my conversation today is the policy of the church and the state regarding sectarians in the 18th-19th centuries. By sect (from the Latin “secta” — teaching, school, direction) it is customary to understand a religious group, a community that has split off from the dominant church. That is, sectarianism arises as an opposition to the official religion, and most often, to the state that supports it. Sects have always existed, at all times, but only in critical periods does a special situation take shape and religious dissent becomes a mass phenomenon...