Saint Nerses Shnorhali as a Unique Figure in Overall Christian Thought and Praxis: Shnorhali’s Pioneering Vision of Christian Unity
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This study aims to clarify the main reasons, why Saint Nerses Shnorhali is a unique figure in the overall Christian tradition. His extraordinary achievements in the most different fields of intellectual creativity and human behaviour as a monk and a Church leader, as a highly talented poet and musician, as an original, profound interpreter and commentator of the Holy Scriptures, a great promoter of reforms or, rather, innovations in the liturgical celebration; and a charismatic mentor capable of making high culture both in its religious and profane dimensions accessible to the simplest classes of population, are certainly serious arguments to rank Shnorhali as a first-class religious leader and an exceptional figure in the overall Christian tradition.
Source: Ceļš
DOI: 10.22364/cl.75.10
Author: Boghos Levon Zekiyan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405280877