3 Lux Orbis series studies revealing unknown aspects of 1821
Heliocentric System and life in Space in 1821
Did you know that during the pre-revolutionary years, an unprecedented ideological conflict between Enlightenment and Christian scholars regarding the correctness of the Heliocentric System was recorded in Greece? These conflicts, indeed, include the possibilities for the existence of life on other planets in our space neighborhood. What are the arguments of each side? How do the conservative ecclesiastical circles of the time welcome the entry of Natural Sciences into the new teaching programs of Schools? For what reasons before the Revolution did the Patriarchate impose an Orthodox Inquisition in Constantinople? And how is the relationship between the Church of Greece and the science of Astronomy developing, up to the milestone year of the moon landing?
The journalist Minas Papageorgiou brings to light a story seemingly paradoxical, but at the same time extremely charming, from the turbulent years of the New Greek Enlightenment. A story that demonstrates how the preparation of the great Uprising resonates, beyond what we already know, and a desperate cry of Greek intellectuals for more Education, free from restrictions, dogmas and censorship. In this ideological confrontation, the enemy is not only the Ottomans...
Fatherly and Brotherly Teaching
Ο the road to the Revolution of 1821 was not paved with rose petals. Apart from the Ottomans and other external dangers, the Greek Enlighteners and revolutionaries were called upon to face the supreme leadership of the Orthodox Church, which was absolutely hostile to the values of freedom and independence.
This book includes for the first time two texts that were published in 1798. The "Fatherly Teaching" of the Patriarch of Jerusalem Anthimos and the response of Adamantios Korais, through his work "Brotherly Teaching". It is about the clash of two warring worlds, remnants of the great upheaval.
The Black Book of 1821
The alleged positive contribution of the highest hierarchy of the Church to the Revolution of 1821, constitutes one of the greatest ideological swindles of recent Greek History.
Two hundred years later, the study of the original sources, the excommunication circulars and the counter-revolutionary action of the patriarchate, leaves no room for misinterpretation.
This book contains a useful collection of such texts, published during the period 1798-1828. The detection of these historical records is still an extremely difficult task, requiring in some cases the painstaking search for rare or out-of-print editions.
At "Black Book of 1821" you will read:
- the texts of the excommunication of the Revolution from the Patriarchate of Constantinople
- the reasons why the infamous lifting of the excommunication is an ecclesiastical myth
- how Grigorios E tried to appease the revolutionary moods of the Heptanesians and Peloponnesians at the end of the 18th century, ordering, at the same time, the burning of texts by Rigas Feraios
- the reasons why the excommunication of the Thieves by Patriarch Kallinikos E negatively affected the Revolution of '21.
- the encyclicals through which Gregory V attempted to control Greek book production, launching an attack on the Natural Sciences
- the excommunication imposed on Bouboulina, a few months before the uprising of the Greeks
- the texts of the patriarch Eugene II, which aimed to intimidate the Greeks, immediately after the outbreak of the Revolution
- the way in which the patriarch Agathangelos tried to provoke a civil war in the Greece of John Kapodistrias.
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