Освещаване чрез Ангелската песен: Sanctus – Benedictus – Post-Sanctus (принципи в изследването на евхаристийната ангелология на древните анафори)
Sanctification through the Angelic Song: Sanctus – Benedictus - Post-Sanctus (Principles in the Study of Eucharistic Angelology of the Ancient Anaphora)

Summary/Abstract: As this study relates to the early Christian liturgical tradition, I consider it necessary to clarify terms and problems in the following research directions: 1) The clarification of the so-called liturgical prototypes – πρωτότυποι and archetypes – ἀρχέτυποι in the context of the Eucharist on which liturgical practice and related liturgical phenomena are built and developed; 2) The prayers dedicated to the Angelic song – sanctus – benedictus – post-sanctus, as well as questions concerning their development in liturgical practices (Jewish and Christian) and their differentiation in the socalled Eucharistic angelology; 3) The influence of ancient liturgical texts containing the Angelic song in liturgical and Jewish and Christian singing practices, and the reflection on the development of the liturgical ritual in the East and in the West. Therefore, particular attention is paid to the problems associated with identifying the process of returning to the prototype and the ancient principles of the Church’s eucharistic and liturgical tradition with regard to the preserved texts, hymns and prayers of the Jewish and early Christian periods of worship in the Church. The answers are found in the texts of early Christian eucharistic prayers, biblical texts, the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils, the Apocryphal literature and the studies of contemporary scholars – these are answers that show us the truth about the sanctifying and blessing power of the Angelic song in the Eucharist of the Church in the East and in the West.

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