К вопросу о литургическом языке славян в религиозной полемике в польско-литовском государстве (XVI–XVII вв.)
The Problem of Slavic Liturgical Language in the Polemic Literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Summary/Abstract: In Polish and Ruthenian literature, there was a two-centuries-long dispute about many topics concerning the liturgic and every-day life of people belonging to the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Greek Catholic Church. One of the most important issue was the usage of Slavonic language in Orthodox and Greek Catholic liturgy. To this end, disputants commenced a discussion over the circumstances in which St. Cyril and Methodius invented the Slavic alphabet and translated liturgical books, and especially regarding the significance and consequences of their relations with the bishops of Rome. The dispute concerned also the reliability of the translations and the guarantee of soteriological religious practices in the language of Slavs.

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