Яременко М. В. - Церковне життя, навчальні та релігійні практики й уявлення українського вченого духовенства у київських проповідях Стефана Яворського 1690-х років (2026)

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Yaremenko Maksym

Churh life, educational and religious practices, and ideas of Ukrainian scholarly clergy in Kyivan sermons of Stefan Jaworskyi of 1690s

Section: Studies of Archival and Book Fonds

Abstract: The preserved manuscripts of sermons (drafts-autographs) by the Kyivan intellectual Stefan Yavorskyi, written during the Ukrainian period of his life, have only recently attracted the attention of scholars. The goal of this research is to analyze these texts (more than 40 sermons of the 1690s) as sources on the history of the Kyiv Metropolitanate in the late seventeenth century, primarily on events in church life, religious culture, and ideas. The research methodology consists of a critical, structural, and (if necessary) hermeneutical analysis of early modern sermons to assess and understand direct and hidden information and religious symbols. The scientific novelty of this paper rises from the fact that until resent time researchers have not been interested in Yavorskyi’s sermons of the 1690s as a source of information for analyzing church and religious history (with the exception of several studies on the biographies of representatives of the Ukrainian educated clergy and their identity). Conclusions. The analyzed sermons clarify our knowledge about: the completion of the reconstruction of St. Peterand Paul Cathedral in Kyiv (it was already used for liturgical service in June 1696); the practice of public theological debates at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy in the first half of the 1690s.; the liturgical practices (Jaworskyi’s audience during the delivery of the sermons in cathedrals, the degree of believers’ catechization, and the passions in the monastery Church of Epiphany); the commitment of this Ukrainian intellectual to the concept of Maria Immaculata, as well as the widely, though not quite consistently developed and supported by many analogies from sacred history topos of Kyiv as a sacred space (city, which has its own Sheep Gate and Bethesda, Gethsemane, the Mount of Olives and Bethany, the desert on the way to the Promised Land, Mt. Sinai and Mt. Tabor, the Cave of Bethlehem and the Holy Sepulcher, city, where Moses and the Old Testament patriarch Joseph, Elijah, and Jesus-like Theodosius of Caves acted, etc.).

Keywords: Ukrainian preaching, religious culture, Stefan Jaworskyi, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, early modern period, Kyiv Metropolitanate, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Hetmanate.


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Yaremenko Maksym. (2026). Churh life, educational and religious practices, and ideas of Ukrainian scholarly clergy in Kyivan sermons of Stefan Jaworskyi of 1690s. Manuscript and book heritage of Ukraine, (1) 31-51 . https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.40.031

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