Holiday: thanksgiving, liberation, unity

Anniversary (tenth) collection of the annual conference "Assumption Readings" (Kyiv, 2010) is dedicated to understanding the holiday - a phenomenon so close and joyful to the heart of every person, but at the same time - the holiday as one of the fundamental categories and Christian, and universal culture. Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky Oleksandr Oleksiy, Apostolic Alexander of Ukraine, Apostol of Ukraine, Apostolic of Ukraine Bianchi and Brother Adalberto Maynardi, Abbot Michael Van Pareis of the Sheveton Monastery, Brother Richard of the Taizé Community, Rev. Milan Juet of Rome, prot. Mykola Makar, Fr. Vladimir Zelinsky from Italy, theologians Karl Christian Felmi and Johannes Oldeman from Germany and others. Literary critics Georges Niva from Geneva, MA Novikov from Simferopol and IL Bagration-Mukhraneli from Moscow, Ukrainian philosophers VA Malakhov, IV Golubovich, OO spoke about the culturological, historical and philosophical aspects of the holiday. Baumeister and AS Filonenko, historians VV Burega, NN Nikitenko and others. In addition to the conference materials, an article by the famous Christian philosopher from the United States Michael Epstein is published. The publications of the section "From Heritage" are presented by the translation of the conversation about the holiday of Brother Roger, the founder and abbot of the Taizé Community, as well as unpublished materials by Dmytro Chyzhevsky and prot. George Florovsky.

The book is addressed to all who are interested in Christian culture and, especially, students and teachers of spiritual and secular institutions.

Anniversary (tenth) collection of the annual conference "Assumption Readings" (Kyiv, 2010) is dedicated to understanding the holiday - a phenomenon so close and joyful to the heart of every person, but at the same time - the holiday as one of the fundamental categories both Christian and universal culture. Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Archbishop Anthony of Borispol, Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky of Ukraine Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Bianchi and Brother Adalberto Maynardi, Abbot Michael Van Pareis of the Sheveton Monastery, Brother Richard of the Taizé Community, Rev. Milan Zhuet from Rome, prot. Nikolai Makar, Fr. Vladimir Zelinsky from Italy, theologians Karl Christian Felmi and Johannes Oldeman from Germany, etc. Literary critics Georges Niva from Geneva, MA Novikov from Simferopol and IL Bagration from Moscow-Mukhrane spoke about the cultural, historical and philosophical aspects of the holiday. Ukrainian philosophers VA Malakhov, IV Golubovich, AV Baumeister and AS Filonenko, historians VV Burega, NN Nikitenko, etc. In addition to the conference materials, an article by the famous Christian philosopher from the United States Mikhail Epstein is published. The publications of the section "From Heritage" are presented by the translation of the conversation about the holiday of Brother Roger, the founder and abbot of the Taizé Society, as well as unpublished materials by Dmitry Chizhevsky and prot. Georgy Florovsky. The book is addressed to all who are interested in Christian culture and especially to students and teachers of spiritual and secular institutions.