О достоинстве и почитании церковных книг в Православии в Средние века (К вопросу о доктринальной мотивации книжной реформы патриарха Евфимия Тырновского)
On the Dignity and Worship of Church Books in Orthodoxy Durin the Middle Ages (In connection with the question of the doctrinal motivation of the literary reform of Patriarch Euthymius of Turnovo)

Summary/Abstract: The author has set himself the task of clarifying the doctrinal basis of the critical and philological activity that was carried out during the second half of the 14th c. among the Slav monks on Mount Athos, later in the Bulgarian and Serbian lands and in particular through the reformist activity of Patriarch Euthymius of Turnovo. By an analysis of the Christian concept of church books during the Middle Ages in Orthodox literature he substantiates the view that the cult of the sacred books and the sacred texts did not go as far as fetishism with respect to the form of the sacred text. After the Council of Constantinople in 1095 any attempt at making a fetish of the sacred texts proved to be outside the boundaries of Orthodoxy and was anathematized.

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