“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html · Biography - hagiography · 5 titles in 1 volume : o Serbia in Light and Darkness; o The Pyramid of Paradise; o The Religious Spirit of the Slavs; o The Agony of the Church; o Prayers by the Lake ... The aim of this volume is to give to the English-speaking people some glimpses into the past struggles, sufferings and hopes of the Serbian nation. I have tried to describe the Serbian life in light, in its peace, its peaceful work, its songs and prayers; in darkness, in its slavery, its sins, its resistance to evil and battle for freedom.

"Serbia in Light and Darkness" by Nikolaj Velimirović. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (1881–1956) is arguably one the most controversial figures in contemporary Serbian national culture. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a fascist and an antisemite, this Orthodox Christian thinker has over the past two decades come to be regarded in Serbian society as the most important religious person since medieval times and an embodiment of the authentic Serbian national spirit. Velimirović was formally canonised by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2003. In this book, Jovan Byford charts the posthumous transformation of Velimirović from 'traitor' to 'saint' and examines the dynamics of repression and denial that were used to divert public attention from the controversies surrounding the bishop's life, the most important of which is his antisemitism. Byford offers the first detailed examination of the way in which an Eastern Orthodox Church manages controversy surrounding the presence of antisemitism within its ranks and he considers the implications of the continuing reverence of Nikolaj Velimirović for the persistence of antisemitism in Serbian Orthodox culture and in Serbian society as a whole. This book is based on a detailed examination of the changing representation of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović in the Serbian media and in commemorative discourse devoted to him. The book also makes extensive use of exclusive interviews with a number of Serbian public figures who have been actively involved in the bishop’s rehabilitation over the past two decades.

The Agony of the Church (1917) is a lengthy essay by Nikolaj Velimirović concerning the spiritual emergency of the European church brought on by the First World War. Excerpt: "The Church is a drama. She represents the greatest drama in the world's history, yea, she personates the whole of the world's history. She originated in an astounding personal drama. Humanly speaking, in the life of Jesus Christ during the three years of His public work there was more that was dramatic, from an outside and inside point of view, than in the lives of all other founders of religion taken together. And speaking from a soteriological and theological point of view, His life-drama had a cosmic greatness, involving heaven and earth and both ends of the world's history. Wonderful was the life of Buddha, but his teaching was still more wonderful than his life. Very striking was the life of Mohammed, the life of a pious and romantic statesman, but his work quickly overgrew his personality. Five years after Mohammed's death, Islam numbered more followers than Christianity five hundred years after Golgotha. But the life-drama of Jesus was and still is reckoned as the most marvellous aspect of Christianity: not His teaching or His work, but His life."

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Accepting the Christian faith, Vladimir knew that he accepts the most difficult of the three faiths offered to him. Chroniclers report that he questioned for a long time before he decided. He knew that the Christian faith means the way of the Cross and that the way of the Cross means, first of all, to put an end to his bad past, to the rags of old habits, to his old soul. And he knew that it would not be enough just to pull ropes from the Kiev hill of Perun and drown him in the Dnieper, but that he himself and every subject would have to throw all idols out of his soul. But Slavic idols - alas! - like any idols, they were dreamed up by earthly gods, the greatest insignificance under the loudest names, stupid and dumb agents of the earthly kingdom, tied human souls to the earth, promising only the earthly kingdom, earthly deceptive happiness, which no one had ever seen. Slavic idolatry, centered in Kiev, made the Slavs the wildest people of Europe. What Vladimir was in the pagans, such were the Russian Slavs: a gloomy horde of robbers, robbers, gluttons, drunkards, destroyers who burned widows alive, who sacrificed slain babies to their idols. It was fear and awe for cultural peoples, especially for the most cultural of them - Byzantium. The greatest pleasure for the Slavs was the destruction of what they did not create, and the robbery of what they did not earn. What power under the sun could create a people from this gloomy horde, tame it, regenerate, transform, resurrect and give it a holy soul instead of a beast soul? The only power of the faith of Christ could accomplish this unearthly miracle with the Russians. She [faith] made Vladimir the Lamb from Vladimir the Wolf. A recent trickster, Vladimir dismissed his harem and began to live chastely. Vladimir - a glutton and a drunkard began to fast, and to fast to exhaustion, - he, laughing at the Islam faith, when he heard that it forbids pork and wine! Vladimir the bloodsucker began to go around hospitals and prisons, giving alms and comfort. Vladimir, a night player and a merry fellow, began to spend nights in tearful prayers, in kneeling and bowing, in meditation on the judgment of God and his soul. Vladimir the shameless became more bashful than the girl. Vladimir the executioner turned into a meek, repentant and gracious Samaritan. In a word, Vladimir the idolater was transformed into a Christian saint. As if on a certain wall the image of a demon was erased and they wrote an angel! A much greater miracle than a butterfly emerging from a caterpillar!

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html HYMN OF PRAISE THE HOLY MARTYR CALLIOPIUS Calliopius, Calliopius, Depart there! Where there is no death! His mother speaks to him and bids him her last farewell, About the fate of her only son, she dreams. Calliopius, the youth most handsome To the commander, his faith he explained: Christ is my life, the way, the truth, Christ is my desire: my only desire! To crucifixion, Calliopius, they lead, Behind him, throngs of people walk. He, pale and peaceful, rigidly bound, Walking quietly, bitterly tortured, His mother to him whispers: Calliopius! I am traveling O mother where there is no death! Martyr of Christ, martyr glorious, The Cross received, heavy and head first. Over the dead body, the mother is bending: With tears, Calliopius she bathes And whispering quietly: Calliopius! Here I am mother, where there is no death!