User:Adriatikus/Notes

todo (?)

1. N razvan theodorescu
2. art 200 - Sodomy law / accept
3. + staniloae
4. + cartarescu < manual humanitas
5. + cronologie humanitas [1]
6. antim
7. ? b curtea veche / The Old Court Church
8. Justinian Marina / v. alegerea - comunisti
9. Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia
10. Nicodim Munteanu
11. ? Romanian icons
12. gds
13. herder disamb.
14. extreme points of romania -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_world
15. UTC
16. diff cath-ort
17. e ort prayer

Mary's Tomb

According to the Eastern Orthodox Church, which acknowledges that Virgin Mary lived in the vecinity of Ephesus in a place currently known as the House of the Virgin Mary, she only stayed there for few ears. It bases its teaching on the writings of Holy Fathers. Later, Epiphanius of Salamis, Gregory of Tours, Isidore of Seville, Saint Modest, Sophronius of Jerusalem, German of Constantinople, John of Damascus talk about the tomb being in Jerusalem. [2]

Jesus Prayer

@redemption: Christ the Redeemer ca. 1410 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

• origins
• theology: more than symbolism - mysteries; symbol and matter; theosis/sainthood (ftnote: who are the saints), JP structure, the aim: endless growth
  • scriptural roots: note on tradition and its link to the Bible
  • palamism, the underlying theology: keyword: "burning"
  • the need for redemption in EO: non-legalistic view of sin; why EO doesn't support the Reformation emphasis on the finished work of Christ (not a gift - why); to properly close the two initiatives
  • distinctiveness from analogues in other religions
• practice: years of practice; elder guidance
  • the heart and the mind
  • perils, warnings ?(, and the unseen war: devil's Middle Ages representation)
  • psychosomatic techniques
  • levels of the prayer
• variants of repetitive formulas: rule of St John Chrysostom (?)
• in various languages
• in art

Cut from Practice. To be reinserted later if necessary.

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The monk's goal is also, in advanced practice, to bring his mind into his heart so as to practice the Jesus Prayer as a "prayer of the heart". It can be used as a means of finding contrition and as a means of bringing about humility in the individual (hence the words "the sinner", as if no other sinner existed but the person praying—cf. 1 Thessalonians 1:15).

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