Teaching Materials for Teaching the Discipline ‘Liturgy of the Bachelor's Program of Theological Schools of the Russian Orthodox Church’

Abstract

This issue of Praxis publishes a thematic plan of classes in the Liturgical discipline, designed for the undergraduate program of the Moscow Theological Academy, as well as reviews of these materials. The task of "explaining the rites" (as expressed by MTA professor A.P. Golubtsov) traditionally, it is an integral part of the study of worship in the theological schools of the Russian Orthodox Church, but it should be recognized that one of the problems of this study at present is the use of outdated teaching methods and the lack of consistent presentation of material, as a result of which the learning process is mainly reduced to unsystematic memorization of information about the performance of worship contained in the Typicon and in liturgical books. In the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year, the working group of the Department of Church Practical Disciplines of the Moscow Theological Academy, consisting of liturgical teachers led by Professor A. M. Pentkovsky, carried out work on adjusting and refining the content of the curricula and the thematic plan for three years of study at the undergraduate program.