At the end of the world, to Siberia, where it is full of shamans and Buddhists, there in the corner of the otherwise pagan Russian Orthodox, the Christian must be executed light wear. Dark souls must be evident. Proselytizing, cost what it may, finally, that all Weden souls saved. Just recently, on 25 11 meldetet the international Catholic Preseagentur: 'mission remains the central task of the Church " (Benedict XVI) and then to point out there would still peoples who had not yet received the Christian message (cf. here ). Since the cath. Church to the mission of the Bible follows - "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned". (Mark 16,15.16) - the church be satisfied until she has brought all the souls from damnation Nikolai Leskov, the his position in the Ministry of Culture because of criticism of Church and State got criticized in his story "At World's End" the indomitable missionary zeal of the Orthodox Church.
A young clergyman, who was appointed bishop of a remote Siberian diocese, complains is about the plight of the missionary work. Much of the conversions only on paper. Many of the baptized, who belonged to the Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism; went back to their religion. It developed a "grotesque mishmash"
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They prayed to Christ and the Apostles, the Buddha and his bodhisattvas, and demons, and the shaman Filzbeuteln fetishes with.
It is a way that Buddhists do not pray (but meditate), but in the history of religion mixing religion are well known. In late antiquity, many devout Christians mistook her Christ with the Roman sun god Jupiter. The newly appointed bishop
in our story continues in a convent school for Foreign-based ethnic and meets at the Father Kiriak that dominates as a single monk there, the Yakut language, one of the north-eastern (Siberian) Turkic languages, spoken in the village. This monk refuses to misionieren the non-Russians.
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One day he has had any experience, so he has returned from the wilderness, brought Myrrenbehälter and ciborium to the altar and said: "I off point and take them not again until the hour has come.
No one knew what prompted him to do, no one knew what time he meant.
is remarkable, His Eminence the Bishop is, in this narrative, one who has to learn, or say otherwise, is not fog of wisdom. Father Kiriak tried to make clear to the bishop, the baptism would not improve if the baptized are not filled with the Spirit of Christ. Based on a saint's legend, he teaches that missionary zeal can bring strife, the language of the Yakut is not capable of expressing complicated theological matters, the juxtaposition of believers and unbelievers sickly anyway, because God, Kiriak, all have created. It's amazing how the bishop becomes an adept, of course, His Eminence stands for the whole Church. Picking all unbelievers from the outset doomed to failure. It must then eventually even recognized by the bishop, who is rescued from a pagan savages from a snow storm and experiences an inner transformation.
basis of the bishop of the Orthodox Church in Russia is presented fairly weak, so, quite helpless and lost. The most beautiful figure of the story remains my Father as Kiriak, who, as the embodiment of wisdom charisma of a saint. Perhaps a vapor of my imagination or it is true that this Father was a myth Leskov, as he the representatives of the Orthodox Church dreamed. How amazing it is the difference between acting from the heart Kiriak and torn by theological dogmas bishop. The message of Leskov's story is unique. The non-Russians, the so-called "savages," have a great culture, there cleric with the heart ("Love your neighbor as yourself") look like. With respect.
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