Paratextuality in the Orthodox Sermon

Artistic Imagery in Fadak Sermon

Today, imagery has a special place in the analysis and criticism of literary texts. This artistic tool which is one of the most important forms of expression in theology transmits ideas intuitively using fantasy and the figurative applications of the language. This transmission makes the meaning more tangible and helps to consolidate it in the audience's mind. In the present study, using the de...

The Icon in Orthodox Spirituality

The place of the icon in the Orthodox Church is unique and so central that the restoration of icons after the long period of iconoclasm has been characterised as a triumph of Orthodoxy as a whole. In order to justify this central place of the icon, one should not see particular icons only as religious instruments in their concrete environment and function. Rather, one should understand icons as...

Women in the Orthodox Church

Women in the Orthodox Church

Anyone reading the sublime words of the Orthodox Church Fathers is immediately struck with a number of overwhelming impressions. First, there emanates from their words a certain sense, by which all that is written seems intuitively true—as though some inner cord were struck in the reader, resounding harmonically with the tone of what the Fathers have written. Then, the more one reads of the Fat...

Exercises in orthodox geometry

Here is a collection of interesting problems in geometry. Solution of each problem requires only one non-trivial idea. The project is oriented to graduate students who want to learn fast simple tricks in geometry. For problem solvers. Easy problems are marked by “◦” and hard problems by “∗”. If the solution requires knowledge of some not quite standard theorem it is marked by “+”, in this case ...