[Cyrillo-Methodian Contexts of Disagreement About the Use of Native Languages in Liturgy. A Story from the Religious Controversy between Protestants and Roman Catholics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th – 18th Centuries]

Abstract: During the Counter-Reformation period in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, there were lively disputes between adherents of different Christian denominations. These resulted in numerous works of religious polemics, which covered various themes from the history of the Slavs, including the processes of Christianisation and the origins of writing. In books devoted to the polemics between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in Poland in the 16th – 18th centuries, the topic of Saints Cyril and Methodius and the use of the native language in liturgy by some Slavs often appears. This article is an attempt to see whether this theme also appears in the polemical works of Roman Catholic and Protestant writers and how it is commented on. The author’s findings show that, unlike disputes with Orthodox Christians, the theme of the activity of Saints Cyril and Methodius is almost absent from polemics between Protestants and Roman Catholics (and vice versa).

Author: Stradomski, Jan

DOI: 10.17846/CL.2024.17.2.76-85

Publication order reference: Jan Stradomski, PhD, professor; Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Institute of Slavic Philology, Romana Ingardena 3, street, 30-060 Kraków, Poland; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; ORCID ID : 0000-0002-7318-6534

Source: Konštantínove listy, 2024, vol.: 17, issue: 2, pages: 76-85 (PDF file)

Keywords: RELIGIOUS POLEMICS, OLD BOOK PRINTS, PROTESTANTS IN THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH, SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS, SLAVIC LITURGICAL LANGUAGE

Language: BULGARIAN

Recommended Citation:

Stradomski, Jan. 2024. Кирило-методиевски контексти на разногласието за употребата на родни езици в литургията. Един сюжет от религиозната полемика между протестантите и римските католици в Жечпосполита през XVI – XVIII век [Cyrillo-Methodian Contexts of Disagreement About the Use of Native Languages in Liturgy. A Story from the Religious Controversy between Protestants and Roman Catholics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th – 18th Centuries]. In Konštantínove listy [Constantine’s Letters] 17/2, 76-85.