This article is devoted to the problems of the comprehensibility of sermon in the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox traditions of sermonizing. The views of some famous Church activists are under analysis. The author considers the problems of reception of the sermon and the necessity to appreciate its aesthetic characteristics.
fenomen propovedi, pravoslavie, estetosfera, gomileticheskie tradicii, propoved', sakral'noe iskusstvo
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