The Book of Psalms of His Holiness Patriarch Nikon

The article considers how stereotypes ofthe image of the Patriarch Nikon represented in the Russian national historiography and how Patriarch Nikon (1605-1681) used The Book ofPsalms in «A Refutation or Demolishment by the Most Humble Nikon, Patriarch by the Grace of God, of the Questions Which the BoyarSimeon Streshnev Addressed to Paisius Ligarid, Metropolitan of Gaza, and Paisius's Answers». Patriarch Nikon in the nationalhistoriography from the XVIII - first half XIX centuries. seen as a power-hungry theocrat, encroached on the royal power. With the 60-ies.XIX century. observed alignment of the image of the equivalence of figures Patriarch Nikon and Avvakum, and with the designation ofcultural and ideological complex Old-Believer compositions. Only in the last quarter of XX - beginning XXI century historical researchesovercame the ideological engagement, expands the base of sources, increasing the volume of publications, and that makes it possible to studythe theological heritage of His Holiness the Patriarch. We study the linguistic consciousness of the Patriarch Nikon, a discourse analysis ofthe text, highlighted basic lexeme, structure and content of the biblical citations and their reflection in the theological views of PatriarchNikon. In the A Refutation or Demolishment there are several layers of traditional texts, which appear to Patriarch Nikon as codes oforthodox Slavic world view through which it actualizes its own theological constructions. The semantic field of the term "psalm" in the XVIIcentury consistent with the cultural tradition to which the psalms were their own language, assumed personal involvement in the utteranceand the experience of the texts, allowing them to rebuild. In our research we use textual representation of 4112 units of the author's text,which are the result of a sample of three sources: the largest in terms of a solid sample of biblical citations (2653), and secondly, on the HolyFathers, Cappadocians - 490 (417 of them - with the "moral rules "Basil the Great (80 rules, chapter 233), and thirdly - with Nomocanon(300). In the citation of the Psalms dominated lexeme " God"(the frequency of references to 95); lexeme " truth / righteousness "(thefrequency of references to 39); lexeme "court" (47), the lexeme "capacity" (27), paired lexemes "pride / humility" (17), the lexeme "anger"(12). Principles of contamination, abstracting, thickening of examples from the Scriptures, quotations redundancy and other traditionalmethods of didactic and emotional impact on the reader used by Patriarch Nikon when he was working with sources, indicates the specialattitude of the author to the biblical text: with him to work to expose and express his profound spiritual content with maximum completenessand clarity of the most adequate understanding of the text reader. Particular qualities of picture of the world Patriarch Nikon reveals theauthor's interpretation of orthodox social and cultural values, finding the subjective reflection of the conceptual system of Nikon- notionalist.

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