The Cultural Inheritance of Holy Metropolitans Varlaam and Dosoftei. Notes on Metropolitan Veniamin Costachi’s Preface to the 1834 edition of the Liturgical Book
The Cultural Inheritance of Holy Metropolitans Varlaam and Dosoftei. Notes on Metropolitan Veniamin Costachi’s Preface to the 1834 edition of the Liturgical Book

Summary/Abstract: In 1834 the Printing House of the Metropolitan Bishopric of Iasi issued the second edition of the Liturgical Book in Romanian. The work was addressed to the clergy, and Metropolitan Veniamin Costachi, who has been referred to as “a hesychast man of prayer and a European founder” completed the editorial work for the volume. In the Preface he sets his effort to translate the liturgical texts within the tradition of Holy Metropolitans Varlaam and Dosoftei, who lived in the seventeenth century. Veniamin also advocates the careful selection of terms, bearing in mind the fact that Romanian is “the daughter of Latin”.

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