Sermon on Law and Grace
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The Sermon on Law and Grace is a sermon written by Hilarion, the metropolitan of Kiev. It is one of the earliest Slavonic texts available, having been written several decades before the Primary Chroni
Torzhestvennik with Sermon on Law and Grace by shakko
The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told other Christian patriarchs that the Rus' peop
Sermon on Law and Grace
…spreads over the whole earth, while the "lake of the Law" has dried up. The second part serves as a eulogy to Vladimir, the grand prince of Kiev, and baptizer of Rus'. It is written in a highly rhetorical panegyric, possibly for the purpose of presenting Vladimir as a candidate for canonization. While the sermon was…
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