Hagiology and Heortology

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Syllabus

1. Introductory Issues for the scientific branch of Hagiography, its place inside the science of Theology and its relation with other human sciences. The history of the hagiographic studies in Greece and abroad. 2. Hagiographic genres: Acts and Passions (Martyria), ancient martyrological collections, apocryphal sources, Lives and Enkomia 3. Hagiographic genres: Ascetic-hagiographic collections, Synaxaria and Menologia,Narrationes animae utiles, Collections of Miracles, Revelations 4. An Historical-literary overview of the hagiographic literature (2nd-7th cent.) 5. An Historical-literary overview of the hagiographic literature (8th-15th cent.) 6. An Historical-literary overview of the hagiographic literature of the post-byzantine literature 7. The term "saint" and the cult of saints during the byzantine period 8. Groups of Saints in the byzantine tradition 9. The Neomartyrs (new martyrs) and the theological framework of the cult of the new saints 10. The procedure for the official recognition of new Saints in Orthodox Church 11. The procedure for the official recognition of new Saints in Russian and Roman-Catholic Church 12. The cult of the holy relics in orthodox tradition: Theology, use and misuse