Pius Vates

• Authors: Andrzej Borkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The question dealt with in the paper is as follows: to what extent might the notion of “religious literature” be functional if applied both to the early modernliterature and the contemporary literary culture? Does it mean “sacred literature,” simply opposed to the “secular” one, whatever it might mean? The author’s suggestion is to use the notion of “religious literature” more consistently, depending strictly on the liturgical functions of the text (e.g. of prayers, hymns or homilies), while the term “sacred literature” should be used only with reference to the so-called “Sacred Books,” i.e. the Revelation recognized in a given religious system. The sense of the terms “pious literature” or “pious poet,” however, should be much broader, going beyond the limitations of religious functions of the text and reflecting a quasi-prophetic intellectual and moral status of the writer.

Keywords

EN

pious poetry; liturgical function of the text; religious literary themes; poet as a prophet

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
• Journal: Tematy i Konteksty
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-73

Dates

published

2021-02-21

Contributors

author

Andrzej Borkowski

Identifiers

DOI

10.15584/tik.spec.eng.2020.4