Talk:Imiaslavie

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I have made a couple of minor edits, correcting minor grammatical and syntactical errors, most commonly by deleting a definite article where none was necessary. However, in a couple of cases I have left the article in the construct 'the God', as I'm not certain whether or not 'God' should be taken as a proper name or a noun. Santetjan 20:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Buddhism & Imiaslavie
I'm wondering if there is any information on this possible connection published anywhere other than a fictional novel?

I was going to tag the section with the original research tag, but I didn't want to be too hasty...

Cheers, --Arkayik 03:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It's been 7 years, the danger of being hasty has been avoided. I agree.  --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:20, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Kabbalah Connection?
Doesn't all this name divination parallel Kaballistic beliefs?

It's not specifically Kabbalistic beliefs it's in traditional forms of Judaism that the Tetragrammaton is intrinsically Holy. The Name cannot be spoken out loud and there is a great deal of care in writing the Name in a format that can be easily erased. David Cheater (talk) 05:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

St. John of Kronstadt and General Observations
I would be interested in hearing what sources support the notion that St. John of Kronstadt was a supporter of the Name Worshipping heresy.

I would also note that this article, in its current form, easily leaves the impression that this heresy is somehow a trend of some significance in the Orthodox Church... when the fact is that it is only a handful of those attracted by Orthodox Exotica that seem to be caught up in it.

User:Frjohnwhiteford 3-22-07

Tom Dykstra's "Heresy on Mt. Athos: Conflict over the Name of God Among Russian Monks and Hierarchs, 1912-1914" (1988 Master's thesis) contains sixteen references to John of Kronstadt. Torbellino 22:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Can you cite some examples, in which St. John of Kronstadt explicitely endorses this heresy? Frjohnwhiteford 02:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The extent of my participation on this article is to amplify the references. I am not the author of the article, although I have added some to the narrative. I hope the additional external material will be helpful.  Torbellino 13:45, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Other assertions in need of citations
This article is in sore need of some documentation to substantiate the assertions contained in it.

For example:

"In February 1914 some imiaslavtsy were received by the Emperor Nicholas II. The kind reception was considered a sign of a changing fate. In May 1914 Moscow Metropolitan Makariy and the Moscow Synodal Office decided to accept the imiaslavtsy into church services without them having to repent, as there was nothing to repent about. A similar decision was taken by the Kiev Metropolitan. On May 10 the decision was partially adopted by the Holy Synod that the imiaslavtsy were allowed to keep their positions in the Orthodox Church without a formal repentance, but it specified that the teaching itself was still to be considered a heresy."

Where are the references for this?

And even more especially, what is the documentary source for this little tale?

"The imiaslavtsy remembered that in 1913, demonstrating that there is nothing sacred in the Name, Sergius publicly tore down a paper with the name Jesus Christ written on it and trampled on it."

If this claim is going to remain in this article, the basis for it should be documented. Frjohnwhiteford 03:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Athos raid
I seem to recall that Mount Athos has some kind of autonomy within the Greek state, but what was the reaction of the Greek government to some Russian troops marauding around their coasts beating monks? --84.20.17.84 07:31, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Language
This article should explain more about what terms for God were regarded as sacred (God, Lord, Creator, Jesus, Father, Holy Ghost, Christ, Messiah, Redeemer, Adonai, Dominum...) and what language(s) they were sacred in. (Yeshua versus "Jesus", for example) Would the name be sacred to an adherent if he didn't know the language it was in? Mike Serfas 21:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Logos?
I don't see what "the Greek term Logos" has to do with this article (section "Similar concepts") --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:56, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Hilarion or Illarion
A choice should be made as to how to write out this name of this monk. As the article stands now, it is "Hilarion" in the first section, and "Illarion" in a later section.