Religious Terminology in Romanian and Confessional Divisions – the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Versions of the Divine Liturgy Cover Image

Terminologia religioasă românească și diviziunile confesionale – versiunea ortodoxă și cea greco-catolică a Dumnezeieștii Liturghii
Religious Terminology in Romanian and Confessional Divisions – the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Versions of the Divine Liturgy

Author(s): TOMASZ KLIMKOWSKI
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Romanian religious terminology; Romanian Orthodox Church; Greek Catholic Church; Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom;

Summary/Abstract: The articles presents some differences regarding the terminology used by the Romanian Orthodox Church, on the one hand, and the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic, on the other. The analysis is based on the text of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom. The differences con- cern not only strictly religious terms, but also neutral words. This seems to be the result of a deliberate linguistic policy of the Greek Catholic Church, which often uses different terms than the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Orthodox terms in question were borrowed from Slavonic or Greek, while the Greek Catholic terms are Romanian words inherited from Latin or recent loanwords from Latin and modern Romance languages.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: Sp. Iss. 2
  • Page Range: 251-260
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian