Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal 5:37-59 (2018)
Abstract |
The focus of this article is the global and European experience of the reception, assimilation, and social application of the Bible, reproduced in the works of a number of prominent Kyiv Theological Academy (KTA) representatives from the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The analysis specifically covers the works of professors Stefan Solskyi, Kharysym Orda, Nikolai Drozdov, Afanasii Bulgakov, Mykola Makkaveiskyi, Vasylii Pevnytskyi, Arsenii Tsarevskyi, Volodymyr Rybinskyi, Dmytro Bohdashevskyi, and Aleksandr Glagolev. The author uses the metaphor of the Biblical world to describe the historically developed spiritual and cultural component of the European world, for which the Bible played the role of a normative and symbolic core. Affiliation with the Biblical world — as a way of broad social application of the Bible and assimilation of the norms and public behaviors sanctioned by this text — was and still is a stable symbolic marker as well as a cultural and ideological factor of integration with European civilization. The historical panorama of the reception of Biblical knowledge and the inculturation of Biblical morality by Christianized nations, reproduced in the writings of Kyiv academics, is presented as a field of centuries-old intercultural contacts and active inter-confessional interaction, and as an important ideological and moral factor of the socio-political integration and development of civil society. The issues addressed by Biblical studies in Europe and the rest of the world and considerations and solutions prompted by these issues proved to be fruitful for both the academic research and public practices in which academics of the Kyiv Theological Academy were engaged. The past and modern foreign experience related to the inculturation of the Bible was interpreted by the Kyiv researchers in the local context, more specifically,
in the modernization attempts of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Therefore, the reflection of European and worldwide experience, though not fully implemented, was productive and was a potential factor that could have contributed to the European modernization of Kyiv cultural and religious life of the time and its integration into the global Biblical World.
|
Keywords | Bible Bible studies Biblical world European civilization modernization Kyiv Theological Academy |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
DOI | 10.18523/kmhj150384.2018-5.37-59 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
Biblical Studies at the Kyiv Theological Academy : The Results and Prospects of the Research.Sergiy Golovashchenko - 2015 - Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal 2:11.
Orthodox Christian Biblical Studies in Pursuit of Identity: The Role and Impact of Personal Research Practices.Sergiy Golovashchenko - 2016 - Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal 3:105.
Citations of this work BETA
Україна в символічному «біблійному світі»: Історичні уроки та перспективи.Сергій Головащенко - 2020 - Ukrainian Religious Studies 90:14-33.
Ukraine in a Symbolic "Biblical World": Historical Lessons and Perspectives.Serhii Holovashchenko - 2020 - Ukrainian Religious Studies 90:14-33.
Similar books and articles
What Are Biblical Values?: What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues.John J. Collins - 2019 - Yale University Press.
My Understanding of the Biblical God: A Brief 'Transreligious' Reflection.Richard Oxenberg - 2015 - Interreligious Insight 25.
The Days of Science in Philosophical Faculty - 2016. International Scientific Conference, 20-21 April, Kyiv. Materials of Presentations and Speeches. Part Two. - Kyiv: Kyiv University Press, 2016.A. Konvers'kyi And Others (ed.) - 2016
The Biblical Prohibition Against Usury.Mark E. Biddle - 2011 - Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 65 (2):117-127.
Présentation D’Une Controverse : Les Écritures Face À la Critique Biblique au Xixe Siècle En Grande-Bretagne Overview of a Controversy: The Scriptures and 19th-Century Biblical Criticism in Great Britain.Slaby Frédéric - unknown
From Apology to Pedagogy: Interpreting the Bible Past and Present in the Seminary Classroom.William P. Brown - 2012 - Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 66 (4):371-382.
Philological Culture and the Humanities. Reflections on the Book: Zvonska, L. L. Et Al. . . Encyclopedic Dictionary of Classical Languages. Kyiv: Kyiv University. [REVIEW]Evgen Scopov - 2018 - Sententiae 37 (1):179-182.
"Догматико-Апологетичний" Метод Та Проблема Обґрунтування Релігійно-Християнського Знання У Творчості П. Свєтлова.Igor Pecheranskyy - 2011 - Схід (2(109)):128-131.
Kierkegaard and the Bible.Paul Martens - 2013 - In John Lippitt & George Pattison (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard. Oxford University Press.
Locating ‘Contextual Bible Study’ Within Biblical Liberation Hermeneutics and Intercultural Biblical Hermeneutics.Gerald O. West - 2014 - Hts Theological Studies 70 (1).
Reclaiming the World: Biblical Resources for the Ecological Crisis.Theodore Hiebert - 2011 - Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 65 (4):341-352.
Lecture philosophique et lecture théologique de la Bible chez Paul Ricœur.Daniel Frey - 2012 - Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 3 (2):72-91.
Natural Theology and the Christian Bible.Christopher Rowland - 2013 - In J. H. Brooke, F. Watts & R. R. Manning (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology. Oxford Up. pp. 23.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2019-04-24
Total views
466 ( #19,520 of 2,499,016 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
114 ( #6,004 of 2,499,016 )
2019-04-24
Total views
466 ( #19,520 of 2,499,016 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
114 ( #6,004 of 2,499,016 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads