Download or read book Confession written by Antoniĭ (Metropolitan of Kyïv and Halych) and published by Printshop of St Job of Pochaev. This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic work of pastoral theology, now in its second printing. Whilst primarily a manual for priests, it will also be of great value to all who strive to understand how to make a good confession. It covers the significance of confession for Christians, the spiritual director's disposition, healing, doubt, sin, fear, despondency, pride, money, envy, chastity, etc. The appendices include extracts form the Order of Confession, a "template" for a brief confession and questions for an examination of conscience.

Download or read book Confessions at Any Cost written by Diederik Lohman and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council of Europe

Download or read book Darkness at Noon written by Arthur Koestler and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stavrogin s Confession and the Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tortured Confessions written by Ervand Abrahamian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and public confession under the Islamic Republican governments. His study is based on an extensive body of material, including Amnesty International reports, prison literature, and victims' accounts that together give the book a chilling immediacy. According to human rights organizations, Iran has been at the forefront of countries using systematic physical torture in recent years, especially for political prisoners. Is the government's goal to ensure social discipline? To obtain information? Neither seem likely, because torture is kept secret and victims are brutalized until something other than information is obtained: a public confession and ideological recantation. For the victim, whose honor, reputation, and self-respect are destroyed, the act is a form of suicide. In Iran a subject's "voluntary confession" reaches a huge audience via television. The accessibility of television and use of videotape have made such confessions a primary propaganda tool, says Abrahamian, and because torture is hidden from the public, the victim's confession appears to be self-motivated, increasing its value to the authorities. Abrahamian compares Iran's public recantations to campaigns in Maoist China, Stalinist Russia, and the religious inquisitions of early modern Europe, citing the eerie resemblance in format, language, and imagery. Designed to win the hearts and minds of the masses, such public confessions—now enhanced by technology—continue as a means to legitimize those in power and to demonize "the enemy."

Download or read book Good for the Souls written by Nadieszda Kizenko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment that Tsars as well as hierarchs realized that having their subjects go to confession could make them better citizens as well as better Christians, the sacrament of penance in the Russian empire became a political tool, a devotional exercise, a means of education, and a literary genre. It defined who was Orthodox, and who was 'other.' First encouraging Russian subjects to participate in confession to improve them and to integrate them into a reforming Church and State, authorities then turned to confession to integrate converts of other nationalities. But the sacrament was not only something that state and religious authorities sought to impose on an unwilling populace. Confession could provide an opportunity for carefully crafted complaint. What state and church authorities initially imagined as a way of controlling an unruly population could be used by the same population as a way of telling their own story, or simply getting time off to attend to their inner lives. Good for the Souls brings Russia into the rich scholarly and popular literature on confession, penance, discipline, and gender in the modern world, and in doing so opens a key window onto church, state, and society. It draws on state laws, Synodal decrees, archives, manuscript repositories, clerical guides, sermons, saints' lives, works of literature, and visual depictions of the sacrament in those books and on church iconostases. Russia, Ukraine, and Orthodox Christianity emerge both as part of the European, transatlantic religious continuum-and, in crucial ways, distinct from it.

Download or read book With God in Russia written by Walter Ciszek and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner, and his extraordinary faith in God and commitment to his priestly vows and vocation. He said Mass under cover, in constant danger of death. He heard confession of hundreds who could have betrayed him; he aided spiritually many who could have gained by exposing him. This is a remarkable story of personal experience. It would be difficult to write fiction that could honestly portray the heroic patience, endurance, fortitude and complete trust in God lived by Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J.

Download or read book The Karamazov Correspondence written by Vladimir S. Soloviev and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev represents the first fully annotated and chronologically arranged collection of the Russian philosopher-poet’s most important letters, the vast majority of which have never before been translated into English. Soloviev was widely known for his close association with Fyodor M. Dostoevsky in the final years of the novelist’s life, and these letters reflect many of the qualities and contradictions that also personify the title characters of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The selected letters cover all aspects of Soloviev’s life, ranging from vital concerns about human rights and the political and religious turmoil of his day to matters related to family and friends, his love life, and early drafts of his works, including poetic endeavors.

Download or read book Secret Confession Vol 2 in the Eastern Orthodox Church written by Alexander Ivanovich Almazov and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 In Russian ecclesiastical practical literature there are no studies deliberately devoted to the question of the history of secret confession. True, in recent times we have received separate publications that are closely and even directly in contact with this subject; but all of them are due not to a deliberate undertaking, but to the call of incidental circumstances. Meanwhile, in the sphere of the history of church institutions in general, the history of secret confession, in any case, is a question full of deep interest. We think that the publication of the work now proposed is sufficiently justified by both. It is not our intention to present a comprehensive history of confession; bypassing its internal, dogmatic side, we deal only with the external side, i.e., we offer a historical review of the charter of confession and church-civil resolutions related to confession. Thus, the present work is actually a ritual-canonical study. The connection here of two points of view on the subject is motivated both by a complete presentation of the external side of the confession, and by the peculiarity of the sources for studying its history. Speaking of the latter, we understand the well-known fact that the canonical and liturgical monuments for the history of confession in the Orthodox Eastern Church from time immemorial and until very recently have always been in an inseparable, genetic connection. Setting our task as a review of the actual external historical fate of confession, we then deal with this subject mainly - on the basis of handwritten sources. This is equally applicable to both the ritual and the canonical element in our study. In accordance with such a predominant nature of the sources of the proposed work, the latter embraces in the history of confession the period proper from the tenth to the sixteenth century. - Nevertheless, bearing in mind that a clear idea of ​​the subject of our study in the period from the X century. is possible only if it is presented for the previous time, and that in some particular questions relating to the external historical fate of confession, there must certainly be data delivered from the ancient period of the Church - we found it necessary to touch somewhat on the history of confession - and in the period before 10th century In view of this, to all our research we preface, in the sense of introductory, a brief outline of the external historical fate of confession before the 10th century; Similarly, in particular questions regarding confession discussed in the proposed work, we consider it necessary to communicate with information on them that remained from the time before the 10th century. On the other hand, bearing in mind the indisputable fact that handwritten sources in the practice of confession throughout the Orthodox East did not lose their significance even with the release of printed official church-practical publications on the subject of confession and did not lose until the very latest time - we found it necessary to present in our study the information supplied by the publications just mentioned - from the original ones to the modern ones. - In accordance with both, - this edition offers an experience of the history of secret confession, from the side outlined by us, for the entire time of its existence, and only the main preference is given to information delivered in this case by handwritten monuments. Exploring the ritual side of the subject, we took the latter in the widest possible volume. In accordance with this, in addition to the history of the charter of making confession proper, we found it obligatory for ourselves to present historical sketches and all those charters and ritual elements that are either only in close connection with confession, or owe its origin. In parallel with this, and in a canonical sense, we have set ourselves the task of investigating, as far as possible, the full cycle of questions related to this. Reviewing the subject of research within such limits prompted us to touch upon an abundance of private questions that are in contact with confession. All this led us to the publication of the work, which, in view of its volume, we are compelled to divide into two books, while publishing separate appendices to one and the other of them. – The first of these books is devoted to reviewing the general statute of confession; the second one introduces special statutes and individual elements of prayer related to confession, as well as ecclesiastical and civil regulations regarding the object and subject of confession. The handwritten documents that served as sources for our work, with the exception of three or four, are neither in our country nor in Western literature: they have not yet been published 1 . In view of this, we had to get acquainted with them in Greek and Slavic-Russian originals. Taking into account the large number of such documents, and in particular their remarkable diversity, we were forced, in order to properly elucidate the subject we have touched upon, to get acquainted with the manuscripts as widely as possible. The latter was achieved to some extent by us, since we had the opportunity to study the handwritten codices related to our subject in the most important Russian libraries, in three Western European and three in Eastern Europe. - - - In the present book, as is made clear in the preliminary remarks to Volume I, reviews are offered, on the one hand, of special statutes and separate prayer elements, and on the other, of ecclesiastical and civil decrees related to confession. In the first respect, we report here information about the charters of confession in exceptional cases, about special charters that only come into contact with confession, and, finally, about individual prayers, which were often included in the content of general confessional charters, but in general were placed separately in manuscript monuments, when designating them as prayers associated with confession. - In the second respect, our study introduces in this book the ecclesiastical-civil decrees, directed only to the object of confession, taken in relation to the latter in all positions that may be here.

Download or read book A Confession written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Confession Leo Tolstoy - This short work was originally titled An Introduction to a Criticism of Dogmatic Theology. It is a brief autobiographical story of the author's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis, and describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical question: If God does not exist, since death is inevitable, what is the meaning of life?

Download or read book Stalinist Confessions written by Igal Halfin and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Stalin's Great Terror, accusations of treason struck fear in the hearts of Soviet citizens-and lengthy imprisonment or firing squads often followed. Many of the accused sealed their fates by agreeing to confessions after torture or interrogation by the NKVD. Some, however, gave up without a fight. In Stalinist Confessions, Igal Halfin investigates the phenomenon of a mass surrender to the will of the state. He deciphers the skillfully rendered discourse through which Stalin defined his cult of personality and consolidated his power by building a grassroots base of support and instilling a collective psyche in every citizen. By rooting out evil (opposition) wherever it hid, good communists could realize purity, morality, and their place in the greatest society in history. Confessing to trumped-up charges, comrades made willing sacrifices to their belief in socialism and the necessity of finding and making examples of its enemies.Halfin focuses his study on Leningrad Communist University as a microcosm of Soviet society. Here, eager students proved their loyalty to the new socialism by uncovering opposition within the University. Through their meetings and self-reports, students sought to become Stalin's New Man. Using his exhaustive research in Soviet archives including NKVD records, party materials, student and instructor journals, letters, and newspapers, Halfin examines the transformation in the language of Stalinist socialism. From an initial attitude that dismissed dissent as an error in judgment and redeemable through contrition to a doctrine where members of the opposition became innately wicked and their reform impossible, Stalin's socialism now defined loyalty in strictly black and white terms. Collusion or allegiance (real or contrived, now or in the past) with "enemies of the people" (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Germans, capitalists) was unforgivable. The party now took to the task of purging itself with ever-increasing zeal.

Download or read book A comparative view of the doctrines and confessions of the various communities of Christendom written by Georg Benedikt Winer and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Moscow Rules written by Antonio J. Mendez and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo, discover the "real-life spy thriller" of the brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives who developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War (Malcolm Nance). Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. As experts in disguise, Antonio and Jonna were instrumental in developing a series of tactics -- Hollywood-inspired identity swaps, ingenious evasion techniques, and an armory of James Bond-style gadgets -- that allowed CIA officers to outmaneuver the KGB. As Russia again rises in opposition to America, this remarkable story is a tribute to those who risked everything for their country, and to the ingenuity that allowed them to succeed.

Download or read book MAO ZEDONG MY CONFESSION Volume I written by zhong Wen and published by Bouden House. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Mao Zedong has been covered by the propaganda of the Communist Party, dressed up and painted with layers upon layers of makeup, and reinforced with each passing year. What people hear and see is a manufactured idol created by the Party’s propaganda, which has taken root deep in people’s minds in the closed social environment, and poisoned their souls. Many people still cannot break free from it. Mao Zedong brought disaster to the country and the people during his lifetime, causing countless deaths and creating enormous sins that brought the country to the brink of collapse, making him the greatest criminal in China’s history. It should be Xi Jinping, his successor, who should repent on his behalf, but Xi Jinping continues to sing his praises. Helplessly, it falls upon the author to write. To expose the crimes of Mao, it is feared that there are still countless untold stories. The number of victims is in the hundreds of millions, and each of the 800 million people has their own account. It awaits thorough revelations from both inside and outside China, especially from within the Communist Party after the end of Mao era. People’s souls need to break free from Mao Zedong’s magic veil, and this requires continuous and multi-faceted efforts. The author can only contribute a small part.

Download or read book A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov written by Robert Louis Jackson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear and compelling new readings of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.

Download or read book Global Tensions in the Russian Orthodox Diaspora written by Robert Collins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the tensions that have arisen in the diaspora as a result of large numbers of Russian migrants entering established overseas parishes following the collapse of the Soviet Union. These tensions, made more fervent by the increasing role of the Church as part of the expression of Russian identity and by the Church’s entry into the global ‘culture wars’, carry with them alternative views of a range of key issues – cosmopolitanism versus reservation, liberalism versus conservatism and ecumenism versus dogmatism. The book focuses on particular disputes, discusses the broader debates and examines the wider context of how the Russian Orthodox Church is evolving overall.

Download or read book The Theory of War and Peace written by Oleg Bazaluk and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ontology of war and peace. Using the results of empirical and theoretical research in the field of geophilosophy, as well as neuroscience, psychology, social philosophy and military history, it defines axiomatics of the theory of war and peace; formulates its consequences; tests the theory on the geophilosophy of Europe; and offers a new theoretical basis for the definition of the European Security Strategy. The text proves that war and peace are ways to achieve a regulatory compromise between manifestations of the active principle, which was initially laid in the foundation of the human mentality, and the influence of the external environment through natural selection.