Khristianstvo na blizhnem Vostoke

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Authors: Dmitrii V. Safonov

October 9, 2019 marks 30 years since the canonization of St. Tikhon. The canonization of the saint took place in 1989, when Soviet ideology still prevailed, and the name of the patriarch in Soviet historical literature continued to be branded as an “enemy of Soviet power." But the church people revered Patriarch Tikhon as a saint literally from his childhood. Holiness as life in harmony with God was an internal, immanent property of Patriarch Tikhon. Under the yoke of atheistic authority, the Church perceived her patriarch as a saint, the time of canonization in 1989 only clearly indicated this fact.

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Authors: Dmitrii A. Fedoseev

The article provides a thorough analysis of all known mention of the Old Man Simeon (Luke 2.25) as one of the LXX. Author studied the variants of the tradition itself, and the versions of different authors, for example, the Patriarch Eutykhios, George Kedrin, Euthymios of Zigaben, Nicephorus Callistus, Damascene the Studite, Meletios of Athens, Nicodemus of the Agios Oros, etc. the Author dwells on the methodological issues of studying the tradition, the symbolic values of tradition with its real values, explores the different versions of the tradition about its origin. Several sources not previously translated into Russian are introduced. Also critically examined are the works of modern scholars who have studied Greek, Arabic and Syrian sources. As a result of the analysis of the tradition in its historical development, the author comes to the conclusion that with some differences in details, the tradition of St. Simeon as one of the LXX in the Orthodox tradition has an extremely stable core, Greek origin, and most likely dates back to much earlier times than is commonly believed based on currently known sources.