| Popis: |
Ukrainian hierarchs of the early modern age left behind a rich creative heritage, which comprised various works by volume, genre and theme. Their analysis demonstrates the multifaceted interests of their authors, which turned out to be diverse in scope, genre and subject works. First of all, they were liturgical and polemical works, which put the actual issues of theological, dogmatic and ritual nature, that arose in the process of inter-confessional polemics. Important hagiographic works, that raised the authority of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, belonged to Ukrainian ecclesiastical writers-bishops. In addition, their works included works of a secular nature - historical, poetic, dramatic, autobiographical works, study guides, works on moral and ethical subjects. This testifies that their creators in their educational and ideological settings went far beyond their spiritual state. The purpose of this article is an attempt to analyze the creative heritage of the Ukrainian bishops of the early modern age, in particular the works, which served as the consolidating factor of Ukrainian Orthodoxy - liturgical and hagiographic works. It is concluded, that theological and hagiographic works of church hierarchs were an important consolidating factor of Ukrainian Orthodoxy. They performed an important mission of purposeful popularization of the Ukrainian, mainly Kyiv, shrines and elevating the authority of Ukrainian Orthodoxy. The fundamental liturgical works, that were necessary to overcome the crisis of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, were created from the initiative and personal participation of Peter Mohyla in the circle of the leaders of the Pechersk cultural and educational circle, he headed out. The release of the four-volume hagiographic encyclopedia of Demetrius Tuptala ("The Life of the Saints") became the highest outgrowth of hagiographic writing in Ukraine and made, as so as the Patericon of Sylvester of Kosovo, a great influence on the development of literary monuments of that time. The popularity of the liturgical and hagiographic works of the main theorists of the Ukrainian Orthodoxy has been witnessed by their widespread dissemination and use among various Christian denominations. |
