Theological course of Sylvester Kulabka at the Kiyv-Mohyla Academy (1741–1745) and influence of the Lutheran scholastics

Konstantin Vladimirovich Sutorius PhD in History, Higher School of Economics (naberezhnaya kanala Griboedova, 123, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 190008)
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Sutorius K. V. Theological course of Sylvester Kulabka at the Kiyv-Mohyla Academy (1741–1745) and influence of the Lutheran scholastics, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2018, vol. 7, pp. 260–283.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2018-00013

Language: Russian

Courses of theology, which were taught in Kiyv-Mohyla College/Academy, are more or less compilations. Parts of theological course, which Sylvester Kulabka taught in 1739–45, are not an exception. What was special, was that Kulabka as a teacher of theology closely followed his sources. Kulabka taught parts of the second half of theological course in 1739–41 and then the whole course in 1741–45. For second half of that course (1743–45) Kulabka used his lectures taught in 1739–41. The latter in turn were based on the second half of theological course, which was taught in Kiyv academy by Joseph Wolczanskj in 1721–25. The part about the law of God, which was taught by Kulabka in academic year 1743/44 and which is not found neither in the first course (1739–41) nor in the course of Wolczanskj, was based on one part of theological course by Hilario Lievicki in 1725–29. Kulabka considerably changed the design of parts of the theological course, which he taught in 1743/44, and added some chapters not present in his lectures of 1739/40. These changes seem to have been influenced by the manual of Lutheran theologian Mattias Hafenreffer.

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Key words: theology, manuscripts, Mattias Hafenreffer, Lutheran scholastics, Jesuits

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Manuscripts of theological lectures by Sylvester Kulabka in the Kyiv-Mohila academy 1739–1745

Sutorius Konstantin Vladimirovich, PhD, lector, Institute of Foreign Languages (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), sutorius@mail.ru

Sutorius K. V. Manuscripts of theological lectures by Sylvester Kulabka in the Kyiv-Mohila academy 1739–1745, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2014, vol. 3, pp. 337–340.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2014-00018

Language: Russian

Sylvester Kulabka taught theology in the Kyiv-Mohyla academy from 1739/40 to 1744/5. His lectures aren’t yet published as almost all other theological courses which were taught there. Kulabka`s lectures are found in manuscripts, which are stored in libraries, archives and museums in the Ukraine and Russia. Description of all known manuscripts, which contain lectures, may be the first step on the way to prepare the publication of Kulabka`s lectures. Kulabka taught theology for six years, and lectures of these years are witnessed differently in known manuscripts. We found in St. Petersburg 6 manuscripts, 4 in Kyiv, 2 in Moscow, 1 in Kazan and 1 in Tver 1. Lectures of 1739/40 are contained in 4 manuscripts, of 1740/1 in 5, of 1741/2, 1742/3 and 1743/4 in 6, of 1744/5 only in 2. Two of these manuscripts have a handwriting, which looks very similar to that of Kulabka. Comparing information from manuscripts with other sources on the history of Kyiv academy we can see that most part of these manuscripts had been written by students of Kulabka. There are reasons to distinguish between manuscripts and records of lectures, because one manuscript (one binding) can contain parts of various records, which were taken by various students, and one record made by the same student can be contained in various manuscripts (bindings). Thus we can sort out 13 records. Lectures of 1743–1735 were entitled Theologicae scientiae summa and they are considered usually as a separate course, but both contents of these lectures and theological courses which were taught before and after Kulabka`s lectures, signify that lectures of 1743–1735 make up the second part of quadrennial course, which began in 1741/2.
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Key words: Kiev-Mohyla Academy, theology, Silvester Kulabko, manuscripts

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