Кирило-Методиевото дело и християнското минало на българите през погледа на Петър Богдан и полемичното богословие от епохата на Контрареформацията
The Antiquity of the Fatherland and the Deeds of the Bulgarians by Petar Bogdan and the Polemical Theology of the Counter-Reformation

Author(s): Tsvetan Vasilev
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Petar Bogdan; Thomas de Jesus; Roberto Bellarmino; Counter-Reformation; Polemical Theology.
Summary/Abstract: The topic of the Christian past of the Bulgarians, their conversion and the controversies in connection with the acceptance of Christianity from Constantinople or Rome, including the work of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, form one of the ideological highlights in Petar Bogdan’s treatise The Antiquity of the Fatherland and the Deeds of the Bulgarians. The author of the first historical treatise in our new history interprets these events from the perspective of a senior Catholic prelate, in unison with key works of Catholic scholarship of the era in the realm of polemical theology. The study tries to shed light on exemplary Catholic writings followed by Petar Bogdan, such as the Care for the Salvation of All Nations by Thomas de Jesus of Baesa, or Roberto Bellarmino and his famous Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith, which on the one hand influence on the genre of P. Bogdan’s work itself, on the other hand, could provide additional valuable information on the above issues. In this sense, Petar Bogdan’s treatise should be considered not an isolated case in the Bulgarian historiography from the Ottoman period, but could be placed in the frame of Catholic science from the period of Counter-Reformation.

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