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Some Recent Receptions of Early Christian Literature in Bulgaria and Their Ethnical Connotations
ISSN: 2367 - 8585Publisher: author   
Some Recent Receptions of Early Christian Literature in Bulgaria and Their Ethnical Connotations
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Publisher: Proglas St. Cyril And St. Methodius University Press
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Abstract
In this paper, when I use the concept of ‘early Christian literature’ I mean the body of texts from Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages that affects the controversies around the issue of God’s Grace and the role of free human will in the context of making a choice in a strict ethical sense. For that reason, firstly, here I analyze the problems that arose with relation to the doctrine of Pelagius. Secondly, in this paper, by ‘recent receptions of this early Christian literature in Bulgaria’ I mean those receptions – in a theological, literary, and ethical sense - that we encounter in current studies of Christian Latin literature done by the promising young researcher Rosen Milanov. Thirdly, the present study attempts to answer the question of the ethical connotations of those same receptions in the present-day moral controversies in Bulgaria – a country rich in conservative views of Eastern Orthodox nature, concerning co...