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“Purgatory” versus “celestial customs duty” in polemic literature of the times of the Union of Brest (Kyivan Metropolitanate): Selected examples In the Kyiv Metropolitanate, reflections about the afterlife of the soul became important right before and after the Union of Brest. The familiar polemical theme of purgatory returned and the followers of the union with Rome evoked the legendary visions of...
In 16th–17th-century’s liturgical books one can find numerous additions regarded as redundant and optional. These paratextual elements are: verbal (e.g., prefaces, dedicational verses or letters, afterwords, introductions), iconic (schemas, illustrations) and both combined. Unnecessary materials in printed liturgiarions apart from the above-mentioned are: teachings of Jan Chrysostom, Basil the Great...
Moralists over several centuries devoted much attention to the problem of binge drinking. Regardless of age condemning this sin, commonly emphasizing as extremely dangerous source of other serious blames. The sin was particularly discussed in the context of the spiritual ministry of sinful priest. Especially teachers from the revival of the Orthodox times of early 17th century, often used to point...
The text deals with the attitudes towards the body and the soul in the Ruthenian Orthodox homiliary literature in the 17th century. In some sermons one can read that people are more perfect God’s creatures than angels which have no opportunity to come back to God after their fall at the beginning of the time. Preachers emphasized many advantages of having material body, the main being: — the body...
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