CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Sakal, Ievgeniia |
|---|---|
| Title | TERATURGEMA BY AFANASIJ KALNOFOYSKYI: THE PROBLEM OF INTER-CONFESSIONAL BORROWINGS |
| Summary | In the 17th century and especially after the restoration of the Kyiv Church hierarchy in 1620, Orthodoxy needed to adapt to the challenges of the Reformation and the Catholic Reform. Among Catholics and Protestants the Orthodox Church was considered unable to bring Salvation to its believers. To defend itself and keep the faithful, the Orthodox Church needed reform. Basically, this presupposed the implementation of Protestant and Catholic strategies in the realms of education, Church institutions, hierarchy, and confessional literature. ‘Teraturgema’ by Afanasij Kal’nofoyskyi is the earliest evidence of the thought-out Church policy aimed at defining the nature of Orthodoxy and defending it from Catholic and Protestant invectives before the Orthodox Catechism and Trebnik (Book of Needs) were written. The thesis examines “Teraturgema”, or the account of miracles, in the context of the ‘belated Counter-Reformation” and ‘unintended’ modernization, which should be a clear illustration of the fragile balance between the transfer of new norms and claims to preserve the “old” Orthodoxy. Hence, this thesis contributes to the overall analysis of the very important but under-investigated source of Orthodox religious thought which emerged at the end of the Reformation, giving a concrete example how the process of the re-formation of the Orthodox doctrine might have taken place. From this close reading, "Teraturgema has never been under such close scholarly investigation, though its strategies, which built on maneuvering between Jesuit modernity and appealing to old times, could be a striking example of the religious transformation in Eastern Europe. |
| Supervisor | Dmitriev Mikhail |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/sakal_ievgeniia.pdf |
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