LINGUISTILISTIC FEATURES OF “THE LIFE OF REVEREND THEODOR THE CONSECRATED” WRITTEN BY THEOPHAN THE RECLUSE

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the religious style of composition, its function and features with reference to “The Life of Reverend Theodor the Consecrated”. The research is dedicated to the study of lexical and stylistic features in this work, written by Bishop Theophan the Recluse as an integral part of the book “Ancient monastic charters” (1892). The stylistic features of life are considered, and the specific features of the use of vocabulary by Theophan the Recluse are revealed. It turned out that various features are implemented in the text, for example, direct quotes from the Bible, morphological features, functional lexical features, and also the difficult Orthodox religious conceptual sphere, etc. From the standpoint of comparing the Russian literary language and modern in the work of Theophan the Recluse, it is possible to consider it as a written performance of a religious and linguistic mind.