Views on the primary religious instruction in the eighteenth century: Feofan Prokopovich and Dimitrie Cantemir

October 23, 2006

👤Author

Name: Manuela ANTON

📄Article

Citation Recommendation: Anton, Manuela. ‟Views on the primary religious instruction in the eighteenth century: Feofan Prokopovich and Dimitrie Cantemir”. Synthesis, no. XXXI-XXXIII, 2004-2006, pp. 89-95.


Title: VIEWS ON THE PRIMARY RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: FEOFAN PROKOPOVICH AND DIMITRIE CANTEMIR
Pages: 88-95
Language: English
URL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2004-2006/XXXI-XXXIII/9_M_Anton.pdf

Excerpt:

In this paper J will examine the polemic between Feofan Prokopovich (168 11736) and Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723) on the issue of primary religious instruction. This polemic was launched in the reformist framework of Peter I of Russia and is expressed in two writings: Prokopovich’s primer Pervoe uchenie otrokom, which appeared in St Petersburg in 1720 in the printing press of the Aleksandr Nevskii monastery,’ and Cantemir’s Loca obscura in catechisi, quae ab anonymo authore slaveno idiomate, edita Pervoe uchenie otrokom intitulata est,’ conveyed to the first author in the same year.