Open AccessExegetical Preaching by Kirill Turovskij: The Sermon on the Paralytic
Author(s) -
Francesca Romoli
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
slověne/slovene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2305-6754
pISSN - 2304-0785
DOI - 10.31168/2305-6754.2017.6.1.10
Subject(s) - sermon , john chrysostom , homily , gospel , theology , philosophy , literature , art
Through the analysis of how biblical quotations function within the Slovo o rasslablennom (Sermon on the Paralytic) by Kirill Turovskij (1130–1182), the author aims at verifying the validity and stability of the “functional model” she previously deduced from the analysis of the same author’s Slovo na verbnoe voskresenʹe (Sermon for Palm Sunday). Textual analysis demonstrates that both writings differ from the functional model shared by sermons of Bishop Luka Židjata († 1059), Metropolitan Nikifor I († 1121), Hegumen Moisej († 1187), and Bishop Serapion Vladimirskij († 1275) in that they pursue a chiefly exegetical aim. This aim, achieved through a particular “liturgical-exegetical” function of biblical quotations, recalls the patristic exegetical model. Given the liturgical mediation of Patristic literature, the author identifies a concrete example of such a model in Homily 36 on the Gospel by John Chrysostom.