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Parrésia XVI (2022)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

The new issue of the Journal Parrésia offers – in addition to a number of other articles – special feature Heresies, alternatives, apostates.

Contents

SPECIAL FEATURE: HERESIES, ALTERNATIVES, APOSTATES

Pavel Milko, The Twelve Anathemas of the Council of Ephesus in 431 (short study and Czech translation)

Marina Luptakova, The first victory of orthodoxy over “heresy” of iconoclasm: The Seventh Ecumenical Council (Second Nicene) and its “Definition” (brief introduction to the context and translation of the document into Czech by P. Milko)

Lukáš de la Vega Nosek, A Shattering Rejection of the “Heresy” of Islam from Ninth-Century: ʿAbd al-Masīh ibn Ishāq al-Kindī and His Polemics

Michal Téra, The Doctrine of Methodius and the “Goths Letters”: The Struggle for Slavonic Liturgy in the Croatian Dalmatian space in the early Middle Ages

Michal Téra, Selective memory of the manuscript: the so-called Bosnian Church in contemporary sources and modern theories

ORTHODOXIA ET ORIENTALIA

Tomaš Huďa, The Anaphora of Theodore of Mopsuestia: a heterodox or orthodox prex eucharistica?

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Lubomíra Havlíkova

„A bylo veliké mření všelikého lidu“: On the live theme or is not the epidemic as epidemic (a report about the plague)

FONTES

Anathemas of the 12th century against the Bogomils (translated by Pavel Milko)

Michal Řoutil, Joseph Volotsky and his “Word of condemnation of the heretics” (Czech translation)

BIBLIOTHECA

LukÁš de la Vega Nosek, A few words on Italian Christian Arabism: A Review of the Editorial Work of the Italian Association Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana (GRAC) and its edition of Patrimonio Culturale Arabo-Cristiano

Haig Utidjian, Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky and Gerhard Jaritz (ed.), Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance

MÉMORIAL

Lubomíra Havlíkova, Balkan reminiscences: About Milada Paulova’s after war-time trip to Bulgaria and Yugoslavia

ESSAY

Georgy P. Fedotov, Orthodoxy and Historical Criticism (transl. by Michal Siažik)

DOCUMENTS

Documents of the Russian Orthodox Church on human rights from 2006 and 2008 (Czech translation) (transl. by Zdenko Širka)

NEWS

Armenian studies are alive! Or two brief reports about academic events in our area (Petra Košťalova)

REVIEWS

Albocicade, Chrétiens en débat avec l’islam VIIe–XXIe siecle. Paul d᾽Antioche, Anba Jirji al-Semani, Théodore Abu Qurrah, Timothée I de Bagdad (LukÁš de la Vega Nosek)

Jeff W. Childers, Divining Gospel: Oracles of Interpretation in a Syriac Manuscript of John (MagdalÉna VytlačilovÁ)

Kristina Pavlovičova, Veľkomoravský Proglas; Kristina Pavlovičova, Prológy Teofylakta Ochridského; Kristina Pavlovičova, Jozef Pavlovič, Slová sv. Klimenta Ochridského (Michal TÉra)

ʿAmr ibn Mattā al-Ṭirhānī (XIs), Notizie dei patriarchi della Chiesa dell’Oriente dal libro «al-Miǧdal» (Ahbār faṭārikah kursī al-mašriq min kitāb al-Miǧdal) (Lukáš de la Vega Nosek)

Benny Morris & Dror Zeʼevi, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkeyʼs Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 (Michal Řoutil)

Parrésia XV (2021)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

Contents

SPECIAL FEATURE: CHRISTIANS IN PRE-ISLAMIC AND EARLY ISLAMIC ARABIA

Jaroslav Brož, The Martyrs of Najran: The Letter of Symeon of Bet-Arsham (Czech translation)

Mlada Mikulicová, Quss ibn Sāʽida al-Iyādī: Preacher and Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia

Lukáš de la Vega Nosek, From the River Jordan to the River Euphrates. Anthony Rawh al-Qurashī (d. 799): from a convert from a high-ranking Muslim family, to a Christian martyr

Michal Řoutil, How much time remains to Hagar’s sons? Two sources on early Christian-Muslim relations and some notes on them

Lukáš de la Vega Nosek, Theodor Abu Qurra and his Treatise on Free Will (Maymar fī al-hurriyya). Introductory study and partial Czech translation

ORTHODOXIA

Alena Sarkissian, Enargés te kai energos parúsia or On the performative dimension of liturgy

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Lubomíra Havlíková, In the Sign of Cross: Byzantium, Hungarian Kingdom and the Order of German Knights

ON CZECH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS

Anna Karapetyan, Karel Hansa: A Journey of Development and Self-creation. A Complete View

Anna Karapetyan, Armenians in the Travelogues of Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund, and Their Journey to Armenia

FONTES

Ladislava Říhová, Cyprian of Carthage – Two Lesser Known Texts of Early Christian African bishop (De zelo et livore and De bono patientiae)

ESSAY

Luboš Kropáček, Islamic religious studies during the Nasser’s era: Abou Zahra and New Accents

POLEMIC

Lubomíra Havlíková, Ad clavum et litteram. Two excursions on current topics

INTERVIEW

Mlada Mikulicová, Michal Řoutil, On traces of Christian life in Old Arabic poetry, translations of the hymns of St. Ephrem the Syrian and the origins of Christian-Muslim cultural exchange: Interview with Mlada Mikulicová

REVIEWS

Life between churches and mosques: new contributions to early medieval Near Eastern ecclesiastical history – Jack Tannous, Christian C. Sahner, Philip Wood (Michal Řoutil)

La Tunica di al-Masīḥ: La Cristologia delle grandi confessioni cristiane dell’Oriente nel X e XI secolo (Lukáš de la Vega Nosek)

Commentary on the Creed (Tafsīr al-amānah al-kabīrah) (Lukáš de la Vega Nosek)

The Trinitarian Analogies in the Christian Arab Apologetic Texts (750–1050) (Lukáš de la Vega Nosek)

Ludmila: kněžna a světice (Michal Téra)

A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire (Michal Řoutil)

Parrésia XIII–XIV (2019–2020)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Jana A. Nováková, Hana Šlechtová, Pavel Milko (eds.)

In a new issue of the “Parrésia: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies” (XIII–XIV/2019–2020) readers will find a lot of articles, translations, reviews, memories etc. This issue is dedicated to the memory of our recently deceased dear colleague, liturgist and theologian Mgr. ThLic. WALERIAN BUGEL, dr. hab. (1967–2020).

Contents

SPECIAL FEATURE: OPERA BUGELIANA

Lenka Karfíková – Gregory of Nyssa, „Our Father Who Art in Heaven“: Homily 2 on Lord’s Prayer

Pavel Milko – Night Battle (νυκτομαχία) and Synod of Antioch (A.D. 341)

Tomáš Mrňávek – The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick according to the Byzantine tradition

Lubomíra Havlíková – Confines and Frontiersmen: akritai – custodes terminarum – krajištnici: Contribution to the Terminology

Piotr Kopiec – Ecumenical Reading of Thomas Aquinas: The Idea of Participation as the Chance for the Interconfessional Theological Dialogue

Ctirad Václav Pospíšil – The Problematic of Procession of Holy Spirit in Eternal Trinity in Thinking of Master John Hus and Bonaventura from Bagnoregio

Peter Žeňuch – The Linguistic Image of God’s Rule

Zygfryd Glaeser – The evangelizing mission of the Church in the context of ecumenical paradigms

Vasil Mikhailovich Cherepko – Translations of Orthodox liturgical texts into Czech in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries 223

ESSAYS

Emil Filla – Byzantium and Our Tradition

Gorazd Josef Vopatrný – Some Aspects of a Heritage of Saint Augustine from an Orthodox Viewpoint

FONTES

Michal Řoutil a Marina Luptáková – Saint Nil Sorsky – Two Prayers

Petra Koštálová – The Caucasian Songs of Healing (several examples)

MÉMORIAL

Dmitriy I. Makarov – Sergey Khoruzhiy (5. 10. 1941 – 22. 9. 2020)

OPERA BUGELIANA: MEMORIES OF WALERIAN

REVIEWS

Parrésia XII (2018)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Věra Lendělová a Pavel Milko (eds.)

In a new issue of the Parrésia: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (XII/2018) readers will find a lot of articles, translations, interview, reviews etc. This issue is dedicated to the memory of slavist and historian Prof. Václav Huňáček (Charles University, Prague).

Contents

ORTHODOXIA

Tomáš Mrňávek - Baptism and communion of children in the Byzantine tradition (in Czech)

Марина Луптакова - The connection of the Byzantine iconoclasm of the 8th – 9th centuries to “Origenism”: to the statement of the problem (in Russian)

Michal Téra - Church Statute of Prince Vladimir and its place in the old Russian church law tradition (in Czech)

Michal Kovář - Christianization of Eastern Lapland in Sami legends (in Czech)

Марія Скаб, Мар’ян Скаб - The biblical component of the language picture of the Hutsul world (in Ukrainian)

Наталія Колесник - The theonym of “Богородиця” (Mother of God) in song folklore of the Ukrainians (in Ukrainian)

Ilja Lemeškin - Works of Prussian scriptors of Prague origin from the time of Charles IV. (in Czech)

ORIENTALIA

Lukaš Nosek - Confession of faith of the metropolitan of Nisibis Abdisho bar Berikha (1250–1318) (in Czech)

Haig Utidjian - A brief survey of sources of apophaticism in Armenian Patrology (in Czech)

Petra Košťálová - Sayat-Nova and panegyrics to the Georgian king Erekle II. (in Czech)

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Michal Řoutil - How to steal Edjmiacin? The Persian shah Abbas the Great (1571–1629) and his project of the transfer of the seat of the Armenian Apostolic Church (in Czech)

Jiři Gebelt - Jesus Christ and Christianity in the Mandaean religion (in Czech)

Magdalena Vytlačilová Jesus Christ and Christianity in the Mandean religion: A contribution to the understanding of the Mandean minority (in Czech)

FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Lubomíra Havlíková Byzantologist, balkanist, and heresitologist Milan Loos and the “Alleged testimony of John the Exarch’s Hexameron of Bogomiles”: On the 95th anniversary of his birth (in Czech)

FONTES

Mlada Mikulicová - Saint Ephrem the Syrian: Paschal hymns (in Czech)

Pavel Milko - Confession of the faith of St. Gregory II of Cyprus (in Czech)

ESSAYS

Gorazd Josef Vopatrný - Monasticism in the Orthodox Christian Tradition – an attempt at critical evaluation of the phenomenon (in Czech)

Pavla Gkantzios-Drapelova - Nikos Kazantzakis – Of religion (in Czech)

INTERVIEW

Stefan Sado, Michal Řoutil - “The Assyrian story of the 20th century represents a unique testimony of faith”: Interview with Archimandrite Stefan Sado (in Czech)

MEMORIAL: In honor of Václav Huňáček

Associate Professor Vaclav Huňaček in the memories of his students, colleagues and friends (in Czech)

REVIEWS (all in Czech)

Ziarno i krew: Podroż śladami bliskowschodnich chrześcijan (Michal Řoutil)

Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians Religious Dynamics in a Sasanian Context (Mlada Mikulicová)

Θρησκευτική Τέχνη από τη Ρωσία στην Ελλάδα 16ος-19ος αιώνας (Pavla Gkantzios-Drápelová)

Byzantská filozofia (Pavel Milko)

Śmierć, pogrzeb i modlitwa za zmarłych w Kościele prawosławnym (Pavel Milko)

Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire (Michal Řoutil)

Parrésia IX–X (2015–2016)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

The new issue of the Journal Parrésia offers – in addition to a number of other articles – a unique study of a sinologist V. Liščák, focused on the so-called “Tang” or “Nestorian” Christianity in China and its Jesuit reflection in the 17th century. Liščák’s translation of the famous bilingual stele from Si-an (781) represents the first  rendering of this remarkable monument from Chinese and Syriac into Czech.

Arabic Christianity and Christianity in the Arab world is also a challenge for us Europeans, and a fundamental insight into this issue is brought by L. Nosek in his study “Arabica Christiana: Several thematic insights”. The inspiring contribution to the controversy between Christianity and Islam is represented by Nosek’s translation of the writings of the Syriac theologian and translator of Hunayn ibn Ishaq († 873) “On How to Gain the Truth of Religion”.

Among other topics, M. Luptáková’s study is focused on the sensorial perception and defense of the iconostasis in the iconoclast polemics; P. Košťálová examines the Armenian scribe from Lvov, Simeon Lehatsi; L. Havlíková’s extensive study brings a new perspective on the medieval historiography of Slavic peoples in  Southeast Europe, etc. In an interview with the French historian Raymond Kévorkian, we address issues related to the Armenian genocide and the current state of research in this field.

Parrésia XI (2017)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil and Pavel Milko (eds.)

In a new issue of the Parrésia: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (XI/2017) readers will find special feature “Hesychasm and Eastern Europe” (K. Ware, J. Meyendorff, G. M. Prokhorov, V. Zhivov, S. S. Khoruzhiy, M. Řoutil) and a lot of other articles.

Parrésia VIII (2014)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

The eighth annual issue of the journal Parrésia opens with an extensive study by M. Řoutil, in which he explores paradoxical traits of Christian holiness on the basis of hagiographical texts. M. Černý has used archival material to prepare his edition of the correspondence between Sava Chilandarec, a Czech resident of the Mount Athos, and the chemist J. Z. Raušar – which serves to add to the already known facts on the interesting life of the former personage. Our theme on Cyril and Methodius is completed with the second part of a translation of J. M.  Vereshchagin’s study, with its novel approach to the emergence of the Glagolitic alphabet, and features an interview with the author.

In the section “Orientalia” the reader will find, amongst other texts, essays on two saints important to the Western and Eastern churches alike ‒ Ephrem the Syrian and Gregory of Narek. M. Martin makes a stimulating contribution to the study of the translation of knowledge along the East-West axis in his essay devoted to the Latin translations of Greek works of the 12th and 13th centuries in relation to Southern Italy, Sicily and the Northern Italian city states.

The section “Fontes” features some new translations, including the first Czech translations of the Armenian Rites of Baptism and the Blessing of a New Habitation, of the 234th letter of St. Basil the Great, and of fragments from the Chronike diegesis by Nicetas Choniates, where the author describes the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders in 1204.

Parrésia VII (2013)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

In the seventh issue of the Journal Parrésia a self-contained section has been dedicated to the anniversary of the arrival of the evangelizers of the Slavs in Great Moravia in 873, with particular emphasis on the subsequent progress of the mission and on its influence on other European nations. The section also embraces Part I of a translation of J. M. Vereshchaginʼs highly original study on the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet.

Several further contributions are devoted to another anniversary ‒ that of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and to its consequences for the cultural evolution of Greece and other European countries. The present issue also includes original contributions, as well as translations of sources, on Byzantine exorcisms, the desert Fathers, Orthodox asceticism, the Patriarch Photius, the challenge of setting Czech liturgical texts to music in accordance with Byzantine tradition, Russian Orthodox choirs in inter-war Czechoslovakia, recently discovered early manuscript recensions of an important Armenian ode by St. Gregory of Narek, the Arab writings “Cave of Treasureˮ, and on Duke Charles VI Schwarzenberg and his writings on iconography.

CONTENTS

Editorial

ORTHODOXIA

Tomáš Mrňávek, Exorcisms and exorcists in the Byzantine tradition (pp. 11–106)

Gorazd Josef Vopatrný, Saint Photios: hesychast and scholar on the Constantinopolitan

Patriarchal throne (pp. 107‒130)

Dmitry Igorevich Makarov, The Holy Theotokos as a paragon of the perfect hesychast

according to Theophanes of Nicaea (the 14th century) (pp. 131–137)

Marios Christou, Setting a Czech liturgical text according to the Byzantine tradition (pp. 139–166)

Kateřina Iberl, The choir of the Russian Orthodox parish of St. Nicholas in Prague in the 1930s and its concert activities: a few notes about Russian church music in the context of the Czech milieu (pp. 167–182)

ORIENTALIA

Haig Utidjian, On the printed sources of the “Ode of the Little Cart” (pp. 185–203)

Haig Utidjian, On the early Venetian manuscripts of the “Ode of the Little Cart” (pp. 205–228)

Mlada Mikulicová, The Expulsion from Paradise according to the Cave of Treasures (pp. 229–243)

Michal Řoutil, Iraqi Christians in the 20th and early 21st century: despair and hope ten years from the beginning of the occupation (pp. 245–258)

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Michal Řoutil, Karel VI Schwarzenberg and his teacher of icon painting Pimen Maksimovich Sofronov (based on the archival sources of the Archeological institute of N. P. Kondakov, Prague) (pp. 261–282)

SPECIAL FEATURE

The most precious heritage: destiny, influence and further evolution of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition (on the 1,150th anniversary of the arrival of missionaries of the Slavs to the Great Moravia)

Jevgeniy Mikhailovich Vereshchagin, Constantine the Philosopher as the author of the alphabetical geometry or another concept of the origin of the Glagolitic alphabet (first part) (translated by Jitka Komendová and Michal Řoutil) (pp. 285–322)

Anatoly Arkadevich Turilov, The fate of the oldest Slavic literary monuments in medieval national and regional traditions (translated by Michal Téra) (pp. 323–340)

Igor Nikolaevich Ekonomtsev, Byzantinism, Cyrillo-Methodian heritage and baptism of the Rus (translated by Antonín Čížek) (pp. 341–354)

FONTES

Formula unionis (translation and commentary by Pavel Milko) (pp. 357–365)

Knocking at the heaven’s door: John Climacus’ Ladder of the Divine Ascent (foreword and translation by Alena Sarkissian) (pp. 367–378)

Miraculous stories of piety from hermitages and cities and their journey thorough the centuries (foreword and translation by Markéta Kulhánková) (pp. 379–390)

Lamentation / threnos of an anonymous poet on the capture of Constantinople (foreword and translation by Markéta Kulhánková) (pp. 391–396)

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Lubomíra Havlíková, Emigration as a way of human existence: the fall of Byzantine empire and its tradition in the thinking and culture of South-Eastern Europe (pp. 399–445)

ESSAY

Alexander Schmemann, The truth of “byzantinism” (translated by Antonín Čížek) (pp. 449–454)

BIBLIOTHECA

Jana A. Nováková, Michal Řoutil, On journeys which it would have been better not to make or sufferings on the research rack (pp. 457–472)

Walerian Bugel, Over the new books on the Cyril and Methodius theme (pp. 473–483)

Haig Utidjian, On the emergence of new volumes of chants of the Armenian Orthodox Church: some issues of notation, performance practice and musical genealogy (pp. 485–514)

REPORTS

Hesychasm as a current research challenge: the Prague lectures by Dmitry I. Makarov (Michal Řoutil) (pp. 517–524)

A comprehensive approach to the study of history and culture of the Old Believers: round table, Moscow (Michal Řoutil) (pp. 525–528)

The exhibition “Icon” in the Museum of Šumava, Kašperské Hory (Michal Řoutil) (pp. 529–531)

Philosophy as inquiry and way of life (Ján Zozuľak) (pp. 533–535)

Patristic exegesis: an annual national patristic conference (David Vopřada) (pp. 537–539)

REVIEWS

Jitka Komendová, Světec a šaman. Kulturní kontexty ruské středověké legendy (Michal Řoutil)

Mohammed Girma, Understanding Religion and Social Change in Ethiopia: Toward a Hermeneutic of Covenant (Jan Záhořík)

Siegbert Uhlig, Alessandro Bausi (eds.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Volume 4: O–X (Zdeněk Poláček)

Julie Jančárková, Istorik iskusstva Nikolaj Ľvovič Okuněv (1885–1949). Žiznennyj puť i naučnoje nasledije (Lubomíra Havlíková)

Pavel Marek, Martin Lupčo, Nástin dějin pravoslavné církve v 19. a 20. století. Prolegomena k vývoji pravoslaví v českých zemích, na Slovensku a na Podkarpatské Rusi v letech 1890–1992 (Jana A. Nováková)

Judith Herrin, Margins and Metropolis: Authority accross the Byzantine Empire (Vlastimil Drbal)

Leslie Brubaker, John Haldon, Byzantium in the iconoclast era, c. 680–850: a history (Marina Luptáková, Michal Řoutil)

Treasures in Storerooms: Book Review of Islamic Art at the Musée du Louvre, ed. Sophie Makariou; L’Orient romain et byzantin au Louvre, ed. Nicolas Bel et al. and L’Orient romain et byzantin au Louvre, ed. Nicolas Bel et al. (Elizabeth Williams)

Christian Troelsgård, Byzantine neumes: A New Introduction to the Middle Byzantine Musical Notation (Haig Utidjian)

Zoltán Biedermann, Soqotra. Geschichte einer christlichen Insel im Indischen Ozean vom Altertum bis zur frühen Neuzeit (Michal Řoutil)

Two new books about Old Cairo – Peter Sheehan, Babylon of Egypt: The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City; Carolyn Ludwig a Morris Jackson (edd.), The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo, Its Fortress, Churches, Synagogue, and Mosque (Marek Dospěl)

Alastair Hamilton, The Copts and the West, 1439–1822: The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church (Marek Dospěl)

Editors’ note

Colour plates

Glagolitic manuscripts (prepared by M. Řoutil)

The Feast of the Myrrhophore women in Rogozhskoe, Moscow, 19 May 2013 (text and photography by M. Řoutil)

Parrésia VI (2012)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

The latest issue of the annual Parrésia (now in its sixth year) again offers a rich crop of fascinating contributions on aspects of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity. In addition to the concluding part of Haig Utidjian’s ground-breaking study “Tntesean and the Music of the Armenian Hymnalˮ, the volume includes items on such diverse themes as Jerusalem toponymics in  Mtskheta and Tbilisi, the past and present life of the Christian inhabitants of Ṭur ‘Abdin, Western influences on the coin iconography from the period of the Byzantine Palaeologan dynasty, and a 100th-anniversary essay on the Czech Orthodox Christan monk from Mount Athos, Sava of Hilandar (1837–1912). Translated articles deal with the life and works of St. Maximus the Confessor, and with Christian archeological monuments in the Orient. The issue also includes an extensive interview with the conductor and composer Marios Christou about the beauty of old and new Byzantine music.

Contents

ORTHODOXIA

Viktor Markovich Zhivov, The Mystagogia of Maximus the Confessor and the development of Byzantine theory of icon (translated by Antonín Čížek)

Daniel Slavík, Bishop Nikodim Milaš and the political struggle for the Orthodox Church and the rights of his Serbian Orthodox flock

Vojtěch Kubec, Jerusalem toponymics in Mtskheta and Tbilisi: Symbolism and liturgical practice

Michal Řoutil, The first Old Believer in Prague? Ivan Nikiforovich Zavoloko and his stay in Czechoslovakia between 1922–1927

ORIENTALIA

Haig Utidjian, Tntesean and the Music of the Armenian Hymnal (conclusion)

Vasif Abidovich Gaibov, Gennady Andreevich Koshelenko Christian archeological monuments in the Orient (1st millenium CE) (tranlated by Jitka Smrčková )

Michal Řoutil, Christians from the “Mountain of the Servants (of God)” or Ṭur ‘Abdin and its inhabitants in the past and at present

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová, Western influences on the coins iconography from the period of the Palaiologan dynasty

FONTES

Isaac of Nineveh, On the contemplation of the mystery of the Cross (translated from Syriac and with a foreword by and notes by Jaroslav Brož )

Demetre I., Thou Art the Vineyard (Shen khar venakhi) (translated from Georgian and with a foreword by Vojtěch Kubec)

ESSAY

Ioannis S. Romanidis, The social aim of Orthodoxy

INTERVIEW

Marios Christou, Michal Řoutil, Jana A. Nováková, To cherish the Original Beauty: an interview with conductor and composer Marios Christou

BIBLIOTHECA

Michal Řoutil, A cultural geography of the Russian Old Believers: A survey of the new publications

PERSONALIA

Viera Zozuľaková, Archbishop Demetrios. The first hierarch of Greek Orthodox Church in America

ANNIVERSARIES

Georges Florovsky, St. Maximus the Confessor (translated by Antonín Čížek)

Marcel Černý,The central European Sava of Hilandar (1837–1912) and the monastic republic of Mount Athos: A short essay devoted to the 100th death anniversary of the Czech Orthodox Christian monk

REPORTS

An international conference devoted to the primacy of the Pope of Rome and ecumenical dialogue in Košice (Andrej Škoviera)

The exhibition Das Goldene Byzanz und der Orient at Schallaburg (Vlastimil Drbal )

REVIEWS

In the name of good judgement and under the pressure of rationality – Icons in Contemporary Thinking: Anne Karahan, Byzantine Holy Images – Transcendence and Immanence. The Theological Background of the Iconography and Aesthetics of the Chora Church (Marina Luptáková, Michal Řoutil)

Archimandrite Vaghinag Meloyian (Vałinak Vardapet Meloyean), ՔՐԻՍՏՈՍԻ ՀՐԱՇՔՆԵՐՈՒՆ ԳԻՐՔԸ Մեր Տիրոջ եւ Փրկչին՝ Յիսուսի Քրիստոսի հրաշքներուն եւ

բժշկութիւններուն հոգեւոր բացատրութիւնը [The Book of Christ’s Miracles: The spiritual explanation of the miracles and healings of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ] (Haig Utidjian)

Mlada Mikulicová, Biskup Severus z Ašmúnajnu: Křesťané a muslimové ve fátimovském Egyptě (Marek Dospěl)

Hrair Hawk Khatcherian, ԵՐԿԻՐ 2 YERGIR (Haig Utidjian)

Monika Langrock, Libanonské rozhovory (Kamila Veverková)

Vrej Nerses Nersessian, A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections in other Libraries in the United Kingdom (Haig Utidjian)

Radmila Radić, Patrijarh Pavle: biografija (Marija Šupicová)

NOTES

Athos: a selection of publications from the years 2000–2010 (Greece, Serbia, Russia)

(Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová, Eliška Mlynáriková, Michal Řoutil)

PICTORIAL ENCLOSURE

Gems of the Tur Abdin (text: Michal Řoutil, photo: Kateřina Vytejčková)

Parrésia V (2011)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

The year 2011 marked 1710 years since the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of Armenia – an event of world cultural significance. The Review Parresia has marked this anniversary by publishing no fewer than eight Armenological contributions, including the first part of a fundamental musicological study by Haig Utidjian on the Armenian Hymnal, his Czech translations (with Martina Pičmanová) of Armenian hymns, as well as essays by Anna Sochová on the historian Łazar P'arpec'i and on Czech-Armenian relations. A profound admiration towards the musical heritage of the Armenian Church is also abundantly evident in our extensive interview with Prof. Evžen Kindler, the artistic director of the vocal ensemble Musica Poetica – who have performed Armenian, Byzantine and Gregorian sacred music for decades, both at home and abroad.

Further contributions include papers on a fascinating miscellany of subjects such as as (amongst others) the burial practices in medieval Rus, God's image in man as a basis for Christian anthropology, the Urmiah mission of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the life and works of the Syrian Jacobite genius, the historian Grigorios Barhebraeus.

CONTENTS

Editorial

ORTHODOXIA

Ján Zozuľak: God’s image in Man as the Basis of Christian Anthropology (pp. 13–28)

Alexei Ivanovich Alexeiev: Burial practises in medieval Rus: source-related issues

(translated into Czech by J. Komendová) (pp. 29–43)

ORIENTALIA

Haig Utidjian: Tntesean and the Music of the Armenian Hymnal (pp. 47–175)

Anna Sochová: The Armenian historian Łazar Pharpeci and his perception of the Armenian-Persian conflict in the years 449–451 (pp. 177–194)

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Michal Řoutil, Marina Luptáková: The Urmiah mission of the Russian Orthodox Church (1898–1918) (pp. 197–224)

FONTES

Haig Utidjian: An introduction to the Armenian Hymnal with examples in Czech translation

(translated into Czech by H. Utidjian and M. Pičmanová) (pp. 227–244)

ESSAYS

Anna Sochová: The lands at the feet of mounts Říp and Ararat: The history of the relations between Czechs and Armenians (pp. 247–252)

Václav Huňáček: Armenian Prague (pp. 253–263)

INTERVIEW

Evžen Kindler, Anežka Kindlerová, Michal Řoutil: From music to mathematics and back: an interview with Professor Evžen Kindler (pp. 267–301)

BIBLIOTHÉKA

Petra Košťálová, Michal Řoutil: Restoring memory: on the new series of books devoted to Armenian regions, cities and the diaspora (pp. 305–319)

MÉMORIAL

Kateřina Iberl: Princess Natalia Grigoryevna Yashvil – the Pillar of Seminarium Kondakovianum (pp. 323–333)

PERSONALIA

Marel Dospěl: Pope Shinuda III is died (pp. 337–342)

František Čajka: In memoriam of Zoe Hauptová (pp. 343–348)

ANNIVERSARY

Michal Řoutil: The Christian ʻOcean of Wisdomʼ in Northern Mesopotamia in the 13th century: Life and Works of Grigorios Barhebraeus (1226–1286) (pp. 351–364)

EVENTS

Vrej Nerses Nersessian: The Repatriation of an Armenian Cultural Treasure:

The Gospel of Queen Keran (pp. 367–382)

REPORTS

Haig Utidjian: The 12th Congress of the Association International des Études arméniennes: a report from a Prague participant’s perspective (385–394)

Elizabeth Williams: Between two realms: The exhibition Byzantium and Islam – Age of Transition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (translated to Czech by Marek Dospěl) (395–398)

Martina Jiroušková, Vlastimil Drbal: 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies

(Sofia, 22–27 August 2011) (pp. 399–400)

Šimon Marinčák The conference “Icon – Old yet Topical Instrument of Evangelization” (pp. 401–403)

REVIEWS

Michal Řoutil: Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (pp. 407–410)

Lubomíra Havlíková: Vladimír Vavřínek, Encyklopedie Byzance (pp. 411–416)

Haig Utidjian: Armen Kyurkchyan, Hrair Hawk Khatcherian ՀԱՅԿԱԿԱՆ

ԶԱՐԴԱՐՈՒԵՍՏ, Armenian Ornamental Art (pp. 417–420)

Vlastimil Drbal: Martin Hurbanič, Posledná vojna antiky; História a mýtus.

(pp.  421–423)

Jana A. Nováková Pavel Marek, Volodymyr Bureha, Jurij Danilec: Arcibiskup Sawatij (1880–1959) (424–427)

Michal Téra: Лицевой летописный свод XVI века. Русская летописная история (pp. 428–432)

Evžen Kindler: Petra Košťálová, Arménské kroniky od jezera Van. XVI.–XVIII. století (pp. 433–436)

Marek Dospěl: Remedius Prutký OFM, O Egyptě, Arábii, Palestině a Galileji (pp. 437–447)

NOTES

Balcanica (pp. 451–454)

Byzantinica (pp. 455–461)

Caucasica (pp. 462–466)

Rossica (pp. 467–470)

Syriaca (pp. 471–474)

PICTORIAL ENCLOSURE

Photographs taken by Jiří and Inge Nosek during their journeys to Armenia between 1967–1989 (author: Inge Nosková)

Parrésia IV (2010)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

Contents

Editorial

ORTHODOXIA

Vojtěch Hladký: The Metaphor of Light in the Hymns of Symeon the New Theologian
And Its Role in Plotinus' Philosophy (pp. 11–32)

Jana Nováková: The Official Publications of the Orthodox Church in Czechoslovakia
edited 1945–1992. Presentation (pp. 33–66)

Vojtěch Benedikt Kolář: The Attitudes of Christian Orthodox Traditionalists towards
The Church Calendar and Attempts at Its Reform (pp. 67–116)

Radovan Pilipović: The Change of Jurisdiction over the Orthodox in Czechoslovakia in
1945/46, transl. Marija Mikeska Šupicová and Eliška Mlynáriková (pp. 117–131)

ORIENTALIA

Haig Utidjian, Evžen Kindler: St. Gregory of Narek. Theology, Motifs and Imagery
(pp. 135–182)

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Vojtěch Kubec: First Bohemians Working in the Middle of the Caucasus. Missionary
activity of Aloisius Pragensis and Alexius Reichenbergensis (pp. 185–211)

FROM THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP

Lubomíra Havlíková: Byzantine Studies. The Development of the World, Czech and
Slovak Byzantine studies (pp. 215–251)

FONTES

Haig Utidjian, Evžen Kindler: St. Gregory of Narek: excerpts in Czech translation
(pp. 255–273)

Marek Dospěl: What is the Ethiopians' Faith Like? A commentated chapter from
Remedius Prutký's Itinerarium (pp. 275–283)
Translation (pp. 284–295)

ESSAY

Christos Yannaras: The Church in Postcommunist Europe, transl. Jakub Houdek
(pp. 299–314)

INTERVIEW

Zuzana Skálová, Michal Řoutil: An interview about icons, their poésis and techné,
discoveries by restoration, but also about life between East and West
(pp. 317–366)

BIBLIOTHÉKA

Marina Luptáková, Michal Řoutil: ʻAthonite Time of Troublesʼ and the begining of
the onomatodoxy disputes, or the reflection on the new publiations on still topical
subject (pp. 369–377)

ANNIVERSARY

Ján Zozuľak: Venerable John of Sinai, 525–600 (pp. 381–390)

Marija Mikeska Šupicová: A reminder of the 1100th anniversary of the demise of Naum
of Okhrid in Macedonia (pp. 391–394)
The Life of Naum (older), transl. Zoe Hauptová (pp. 395–396)

EVENTS

Vojtěch Kubec: Churches for Mosques or the Fate of a Crucial Agreement between
Tbilisi and Ankara (Report with a brief bibliographic remark) (pp. 399–418)

Marek Dospěl: Centenary of the Coptic Museum in Cairo (pp. 419–423)

NOTES AND REPORTS

Michal Řoutil : An international scientific conference ʻRiga's Old believers: 250 years of
Cultural experienceʼ, Riga, 28–29 May, 2010 (pp. 427–428)

Walerian Bugel: De septimo Stromateorum libro. Report on the Conference with the
Theme the 7th Book of Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria (pp. 429–430)

REVIEWS

Jana Nováková: Šustek V., Zlato se čistí v ohni (pp. 433–435)

Michal Řoutil: Старообрядчество в России (XVII–XX вв.) (pp. 436–441)

Mlada Mikulicová: Zuzana Skálová – Gaudát Gabra: Icons of the Nile Valley
(pp. 442–445)

Michal Řoutil: Education and paideia in the early Syriac tradition: notes on new
contributions to the debate (pp. 446–453)

ANNOTATIONS

Aethiopica (pp. 457–458)
Arabica (p. 459)
Byzantinica (pp. 460–463)
Caucasica (pp. 464–466)
Coptica (pp. 466–467)
Rossica (pp. 468–469)
Syriaca (pp. 470–472)
Varia (pp. 473–480)

Parrésia II-III (2008-2009)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

This double issue includes primarily 12 contributions united in a large section entitled “Aghet. Seyfo. Xerismos. Armenians, Syrians and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire and their genocide in 1912–1922 (on the background of the situation in the 19th and 20th century)”. All the included texts represent the first detailed research of the topics in our country ever.

Parresia I (2007)

A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies

Michal Řoutil, Pavel Milko (eds.)

The initial issue of the Parresia review contains 14 articles, e. g. P. Milko’s treatise “The original sin in Athanasius’ De Incarnatione”, M. Šlajerová’s “Palestinian political theology. Its origins, typology, authors and topics”, V. A. Černý’s “The evangelisation of Caucasus”, Z. Poláček’s “The Etiopian church” or M. Dospěl’s “To seek the first Christian in the Egyptian sand”. In its section Fontes we publish the first Czech translation of a Georgian hagiography “The martyrdom of Eustathios of Mcchetha”.