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Author(s)
Nataliia Sinkevych
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2018.05.005
Affiliation(s)
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
ABSTRACT
John Herbinius (1633-1679)
was a well-known Lutheran theologian and writer. Living long time on the
territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in contemporary Vilnus), he wrote
a description of the Kyiv religious caves, which was published in 1675 in Jena.
The purpose of this research is to contribute to the further understanding and
interpretation of the church history and inter-confessional relations on the
territory on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the middle of the 17th
century, and its later influence on historical and cultural development.
Herbinius, being deeply connected with the West-European Protestant world, and
at the same time, living in multi-cultural and multi-religious Vilnius, tried
to maneuver between the religious tolerance and
confessional loyalty, the adherence to the ideas of German reformation and a
personal friendship with the Orthodox clergy. The methodology of this work includes
historical, inter-confessional, heuristic, biographical, reader-orientated, and
linguistic approaches, textual, contextual, and comparative analysis. This article has shown that the Protestant author
percepted and treated the Orthodox Church in a very positive way: Church
customs, canonical law, and discipline, clergy, and even monasticism did not
provoke any criticism from his side. However, on the questions of iconolatry
and confessional exclusivism of the Orthodox Church Herbinius could not refrain from criticism. They evidently contradicted
his views on real Christian piety and religious tolerance.
KEYWORDS
John Herbinius, Kyiv monastery of the caves, the Eastern Orthodox Church, confessional dialogue, religious tolerance
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