The time of the Orthodox worship

  1. Lemma
  2. Время православного богослужения
  3. Russian
  4. Saprykin, Dmitry
  5. Theological works of scientists and engineers - Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
  6. 2011
  7. Паршин Алексей [Author]. Time and space of the Orthodox worship
  8. Семинар «Русская философия (традиция и современность)»
  9. Time
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    1. A.N. Parshin, relying on the study of liturgical texts, the structure of church service, the architectonics of the temple and its decoration, and their interpretation in patristic literature, makes an attempt to describe mathematically the space and time in which worship takes place.

      The author is convinced that "in all Orthodox worship there is not only great art, but also a great science". The author distinguishes the following general categories applicable to all concrete forms of time and space encountered in Orthodoxy: hierarchy and similarity of its levels, circle and movement in a circle, reflections and mirrors, the structure of a tree. 

      Time is a system of cycles (centuries, periods, hours, ...) that are consistent with each other: each larger cycle is wound an integer number of times by a smaller one, the author believes. "There are two levels of time: the upper one is a single day, and the lower one is a cycle or a circle of seven days lying beneath it; thus there is an unfolding of this single day, which will end at the end of time, when the eighth day will come. " Visually, this can be depicted as spiraling.

      In addition, there is Liturgy, a service that goes beyond the liturgical circles and is performed as if in eternity. Analysis of Liturgy, its provisions and relationships with other services performed in time, should give us a possible idea of eternity, the author writes. Heavenly service occurs in intelligible space, in heavens created at the beginning of creation.

      In addition to the circular structure, time also has an order structure: earlier / later. The author considers four types of time connection: prophecy, representation, remembrance and kinship (genealogy).