Protestantism

Review on collect of Luther’s works «On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church» edited by Ivan Fokin (Saint-Petersburg, 2017)

Rodion Valentinovich Savinov PhD in Philosophy, senior lecturer Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Veterinary Medicine (Chernigovskaya ulitsa, 5, Saint-Petersburg, 196084)
savrodion@yandex.ru

Savinov R. V. Review on collect of Luther’s works «On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church» edited by Ivan Fokin (Saint-Petersburg, 2017), Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2018, vol. 7, pp. 296–317.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2018-00015

Language: Russian

The author considers the collection of Martin Luther’s works, edited by Ivan Fokin, timed to the 500^thanniversary of the Reformation. The review included description of the collection, and analysis of key texts from each section. An evaluation of this edition is suggested in the context of Russian research literature devoted to the Reformation and the early Modern.

Key words: Luther, Reformation, Protestantism, Lutheranism, Anniversary of the Reformation, review

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/savinov-2018-en/

Review on the book «The Oxford History of Anglicanism» (Oxford, 2017)

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Anastasia Andreyevna Palamarchuk Doctor in History, senior lecturer, Department of Medieval History, Institute of History, Saint-Petersburg State University (Universitetskaya naberezhnaya, 7, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 199034)
a.palamarchuk@spbu.ru

Palamarchuk A. A. Review on the book «The Oxford History of Anglicanism» (Oxford, 2017), Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2018, vol. 7, pp. 284–295.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2018-00014

Language: Russian

The reviewed volume «The Oxford History of Anglicanism. Vol. 1. Reformation and Identity, с. 1520–1662 » (Ed. by A. Milton. Oxford, 2017) definitely is a seminal work on English ecclesiastical history. The concept of the Church of England as a «contested identity» and Anglicanism as a global cultural-historical phenomenon open a new perspective for the historians of the Church of England.

Key words: Anglicanism, Church of England, Protestantism, Reformation, the Tudors, the Stuarts

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/palamarchuk-2018-en/

Method of calculation of Christians in Russia (on the example of the Church of Ingria)

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Alexey Igorevich Ivanenko PhD in Philosophy, assistant professor, High School of Technology and Energetics Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (ulitsa Ivana Chernykh, 4, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 198095)
iwanenkoalexy@hotmail.com

Ivanenko A. I. Method of calculation of Christians in Russia (on the example of the Church of Ingria), Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2018, vol. 7, pp. 126–149.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2018-00007

Language: Russian

The article is devoted to the calculation method of Christians in Russia, because standard criteria of self-identity or church-visiting contradict to Christian dogmatics. For example, a nominal Christian can deny the existence of God. From other side, clerics can give incredible number of Christians. For Russia we have variative numbers: are there 4% believers or 80%? Author suggests that real number of Christians correlates strongly with the number of parishes, where religious rites (such as predicts and sacraments) exist. The article gives optimal number of Russian Christians based on modern statistics, Christian (Lutheran) dogmatics and evidence of priests. This number is calculated for situation in Lutheran Church of Ingria, where middle parish consists of one or two hundred believers. However, some Christians go to church from time to time and unregularly. They are «bad sheep», but they are Christians, who have a weak faith. Dogmatically, they are not good Christians because of sins. So, real middle number of one parish is 360 believers. Author suggests that it is an optimal number of believers for one parish. Real number of Christians for one confession is 360 multiply by number of parishes. So, author suggests that there are only 10 mln Christians in Russia: 9 mln of Orthodox Christians and 1 mln of the Protestants. But this number is true only for the beginning of the 21^stcentury.

Key words: denominations, parishes, Christians, Protestantism, Lutheranism, number of Christians

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/ivanenko-2018-en/

Identidad luterana en América Latina

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René Krüger,PhD in theology, professor, Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos (Camacuá 282, Buenos Aires, Atgentina, C1406DOF)

renekruger@infovia.com.ar

Krüger R. Identidad luterana en América Latina, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2015, vol. 4, pp. 94–115.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2015-00006

Language: Spanish

The article deals with the identity of the Protestant community in Latin America, the region with the absolute dominant of Catholicism. In the 19^thcentury the Evangelical Church of Rio de la Plata (IERP) was created here by German-speaking immigrants (actually Germans, Swiss zwinglians, the Volga Germans, whose influx to Argentina started in 1878). Historically being the center of the life of the German community, IERP continues its service in German nowadays, but the main languages in the last half century of the community are Spanish and Portuguese. If earlier IERP pastors had come from Europe, now Reformed pastoral education could be obtained in Buenos Aires. This caused identical change of the local evangelical church. As the author shows, it is associated with reflections of social and political realities of our time — the power of money, consumerism, selfishness and the widespread ciff in people relations. These are the vices of the 21^stcentury that the Lutheran community in Argentina struglle with the Gospel and his Spirit.

Key words: Lutheranism, Protestantism, immigrants, Buenis Aires, theology

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/renekruger-2015-en/

Review on the monography «Lyuterane v Karelii: Istoricheskie zametki» [Lutherans in Karelia: Historical notes] by S. E. Yalovitsyna (Petrozavodsk, 2016)

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Pavel Valentinovich Krylov PhD in History, leading researcher, Russian Academy of Science, Institute of History (Petrozavodskaya ulitsa, 7, Saint-Petersburg, 197110), pavel_kryloff@mail.ru

Krylov P. V. Review on the monography «Lyuterane v Karelii: Istoricheskie zametki» [Lutherans in Karelia: Historical notes] by S. E. Yalovitsyna (Petrozavodsk, 2016), Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2016, vol. 5, pp. 314–320.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2016-00016

Language: Russian

The monograph of S. E. Yalovitsyna «Lutherans in Karelia: Historical essays» (Petrozavodsk: IP Markov N. A., 2016. 216 p.) is reviewed. The book examines the main stages of the history of Lutherans in Karelia, which originated from the time of reforms of Peter the Great and due to emergence of a large number of Lutheran professionals, who formed a basis of the local communities. The author gives a high estimation of the work of S. E. Jalovitsyna, marking out extensive source base, clarity and reasonableness of the material, absence of significant factual errors. Special attention is given to the general idea of the monography, i. e. the evidence of the harmonious coexistence of representatives of different Christian denominations in Karelia, which can serve as a good example for our contemporaries.

Key words: Peter the Great, Protestantism, Reformation, parish activities, Laestadius

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/krylov-p-v-2016-en/