An Analysis of the State of «Out of Mind» in the 14th Rule of Timothy of Alexandria

Authors

  • Archpriest Dmitri Kurdyukov General Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31802/PRAXIS.2025.19.2.004

Keywords:

out of mind, ἐκφρενής, funeral service for a suicide, church burial

Abstract

In this work, the term "outside the mind" (ἐκφρενής) used in the 14th canon of St. Timothy of Alexandria, is analyzed. The decision on whether a person who committed suicide was in a state of "out of mind" is made by the clergyman, who decides on the possibility of performing the rite of church burial of the suicide. To make a decision, the clergyman needs to determine exactly whether the deceased was in his right mind. The term "out of mind" is considered from a philological, legal, theological and psychiatric point of view.

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Author Biography

Archpriest Dmitri Kurdyukov, General Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius

Secretary of the Diocesan Council

Dean of the III Tver Church District

Chairman of the Canonical Commission of the Tver Diocese

MA Student of the program “Canon Law of the Orthodox Church” at the General Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius

10 Sovetskaya St., Tver 170100, Russia

ier_dimitriy@mail.ru

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Published

2025-06-15

How to Cite

Kurdyukov Д. . (2025). An Analysis of the State of «Out of Mind» in the 14th Rule of Timothy of Alexandria. Praxis, (2 (19), 67–82. https://doi.org/10.31802/PRAXIS.2025.19.2.004

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Juvenalis. Masters and postgraduate studies

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