Church vocabulary of Greek origin. History of words. Textbook

The real book is devoted to the history of words perceived by the Slavic Christian tradition from Byzantium. The author conducts a comprehensive analysis of a significant part of the church vocabulary of Greek origin, significant for various branches of church science. The issues of etymology, phonetic and graphic design of borrowings, their word-formation and semantic features, the specificity of the use, data of the intermediary languages ​​are considered.
The book will be useful in the development of a number of disciplines of the seminar program: the ancient Greek language, biblicalism, patrology, liturgics, dogmatic theology, comparative moral theology, church art, the history of the church and Byzantineism.
As a reference book is of interest not only for church, but also for secular teaching and student audience.
Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church