Author: St. Maximos the Confessor
Publisher: Vladimir Djambov
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Ascetic life / аскетичен живот WISDOM – use with VEDENIE St. Maximos the Confessor (580–662) 4 Centuries (400 Texts) On Love (Charity) Four Hundred Texts on Love /Charity FOREWORD TO ELPIDIOS THE PRESBYTER ЗА ЛЮБОВТА – ЧЕТИРИ СТОТИЦИ Предговор до презвитер Елпидий 31. Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul. To All the Weak, the Feeble, and the Little Ones (like me) [С нами Бог] With love dedicated to M., and to M. Know that: /you better come to realize that:/ - You do what your father does - all the worthy things he does - you do, too! - You need only remember him with GRATITUDE every night and every crisis (at least) - and all his sweetness, strength, and riches - are yours (for the asking). [I hear some of you saying they know not their father! - They may well not know him - but their heart does! So you, too: ] You just listen: - GRATITUDE / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ ... You hear out (again and again): - GRATITUDE / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ ... And you experience: - GRATITUDE / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ ... At first it seems [as if] you were giving thanks - No! The second or the third time around you already know Who the Giver of all is - all you have to do is attune your heart, and let it FEEL the GRATITUDE /БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ/ - and you experience the downpour of all mercies, goods (kindness), and all the merits of the Giver of all (ВСЕПОДАТЕЛЯ Христос) Christ - Who gives everything - TO ALL - hears everything and first responds to GRATITUDE / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ... And – yes! – you do what your Father does! With heart-felt GRATITUDE / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ... what used to be nothing more but mimicking or 'play' is all too real! You are still weak, feeble and little but you really do what your Father does! Слава Богу за все! С нами Бог! Glory be to God for everything! The Lord is with us! ПРЕВОД ОТ ~АНГЛИЙСКИ~ На всички слаби, нищи, и ония малките (като мен) [С нами Бог] Посветено с обич на М., и на M. Знай, че: / добре е да осъзнаеш, че: / - Ти правиш онова, което прави баща ти – всичките достойни неща, които той прави – ги правиш и ти! – Трябва само да си го спомняш с БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ всяка вечер и (при) всяка криза (най-малко) и цялата му благост, сила и богатства – ще са твои (само да поискаш). [Чувам как някои от вас казват, че не познават баща си! – Може и да не го познават, но сърцето им го знае! Така че и те (също):] Само чуй: - / благодарност / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ ... Изслушай (отново и отново): - / благодарност / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ ... Изпитай: - / благодарност / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ ... Отначало изглежда [сякаш], ти даваш благодарност – Не! На втория или третия път вече знаеш Кой е Всеподателят – всичко, което трябва да сториш, е да настроиш сърцето си, и да му дадеш да почувства БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ – и (вече) изпитваш пороя от всички милости, благини (доброта), и всички достойнства на ВСЕПОДАТЕЛЯ Христос – Който дава всичко – НА ВСИЧКИ – чува всичко – и първо откликва на / благодарността / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕТО... И – о, да! – Правиш това, което прави твоя Отец! Със сърдечно / благодарност / БЛАГОДАРЕНИЕ... онова, което по-рано не бе нищо повече от имитиране или „игра”, е вече така истинско! Ти си все така слаб, нищ и малък, но наистина правиш това, което прави твоя Отец! Слава Богу за всьо! С нами Бог!
Author: Saint Maximus (Confessor)
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809102587
Category : Asceticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Ascetic Life is a dialogue between a young novice and an old monk on how to achieve the Christian life. The Four Centuries is a collection of aphorisms.
Author: Saint Maximus (Confessor)
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809126590
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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This volume includes a translation of four spiritual treatises of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), plus an account of his trial. Included are The Four Hundred Chapters of Love, Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, Chapters on Knowledge, The Church's Mystagogy, and Trial of Maximus.
Author: St. Maximus the Confessor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621385455
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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St. Maximus the Confessor might well be called the Saint of Synthesis. His thought places him between the theologies of East and West and between the Middle Ages and the ancient Church. The Ascetic Life takes the form of question and answer between a novice and an old monk. The Four Centuries on Charity is written in the form of gnomic literature.
Author: Stephen D. Krasner
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631496603
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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After generations of foreign policy failures, the United States can finally try to make the world safer—not by relying on utopian goals but by working pragmatically with nondemocracies. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into foreign economies in the hope that its investments would help remake the world in its own image—or, at the very least, make the world “safe for democracy.” So far, the returns have been disappointing, to say the least. Pushing for fair and free elections in undemocratic countries has added to the casualty count, rather than taken away from it, and trying to eliminate corruption entirely has precluded the elimination of some of the worst forms of corruption. In the Middle East, for example, post-9/11 interventionist campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have proved to be long, costly, and, worst of all, ineffective. Witnessing the failure of the utopian vision of a world full of market-oriented democracies, many observers, both on the right and the left, have begun to embrace a dystopian vision in which the United States can do nothing and save no one. Accordingly, calls to halt all assistance in undemocratic countries have grown louder. But, as Stephen D. Krasner explains, this cannot be an option: weak and poorly governed states pose a threat to our stability. In the era of nuclear weapons and biological warfare, ignoring troubled countries puts millions of American lives at risk. “The greatest challenge for the United States now,” Krasner writes, “is to identify a set of policies that lie between the utopian vision that all countries can be like the United States . . . and the dystopian view that nothing can be done.” He prescribes a pragmatic new course of policy. Drawing on decades of research, he makes the case for “good enough governance”—governance that aims for better security, better health, limited economic growth, and some protection of human rights. To this end, Krasner proposes working with despots to promote growth. In a world where a single terrorist can kill thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, the United States does not have the luxury of idealistically ignoring the rest of the world. But it cannot remake the world in its own image either. Instead, it must learn how to make love to despots.
Author: I. Moulton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137405058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that continue to shape cultural notions about love today.
Author: Peter Ward
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773562419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late eighteenth century young people began to enjoy great autonomy in courtship and decisions about marriage. Peter Ward disagrees with this conclusion and argues that freedom in nineteenth-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behaviour of young couples both before and after marriage.
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: Bronwyn Reddan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292723
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg Songs Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their discovery in the late twentieth century, the Letters of Two Lovers have aroused much attention because of their extreme rarity. They constitute the longest correspondence by far between any two persons from the entire Middle Ages, and they are private rather than institutional—which means that, according to all we know about the transmission of medieval letters, they should not have survived at all. Adding to their mystery, the letters are copied anonymously in a single late fifteenth-century manuscript, although their style and range of reference place them squarely in the early twelfth century. Can this collection of correspondence be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? And even if not, what does it tell us about the lived experience of love in the twelfth century? Barbara Newman contends that these teacher-student exchanges bear witness to a culture that linked Latin pedagogy with the practice of ennobling love and the cult of friendship during a relatively brief period when women played an active part in that world. Newman presents a new translation of these extraordinary letters, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse their literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair. Included, too, are two other sets of twelfth-century love epistles, the Tegernsee Letters and selections from the Regensburg Songs. Taken together, they constitute a stunning contribution to the study of the history of emotions by one of our most prominent medievalists.
