Presbyter Kozma, Gegen die Bogomilen : Orthodoxie und Häresie auf dem mittelalterlichen Balkan

The Homily of the Unworthy Priest Cosmas Against the Newly-Appeared Heresy of Bogomil (10th century) is a key source for the religious history of the Balkan peninsula. It is one of the earliest and richest sources for the rise of the dualistic religious movement of Bogomilism in the early Middle Ages. Written in a period of war and crisis of the Bulgarian Empire Cosmas sermon is also an important work of Eastern Christian Theology, calling for a thorough reform of clergy and monasticism. During the subsequent centuries Cosmas' work was copied and excerpted by Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian churchmen who were seeking inspiration in their struggle for ecclesial reform and against religious dissent of various heretical movements. In the processes of national identity construction on the Balkans during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Cosmas' Homily again played a remarkable role. The present study provides the first complete translation into a western language of Begunov's 1973 critical edition. The German translation is accompanied by an introduction and a commentary. Cosmas' homily is one of the most important sources on Christian dualism in the Christian East and an intriguing theological text. The 'Homily of the Unworthy Priest Cosmas Against the Newly-Appeared Heresy of Bogomil' (10th century) is a key source for the religious history of the Balkan peninsula. It is one of the earliest and richest sources for the rise of the dualistic religious movement of Bogomilism in the early Middle Ages. Written in a period of war and crisis of the Bulgarian Empire Cosmas sermon is also an important work of Eastern Christian Theology, calling for a thorough reform of clergy and monasticism. During the subsequent centuries Cosmas' work was copied and excerpted by Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian churchmen who were seeking inspiration in their struggle for ecclesial reform and against religious dissent of various heretical movements. In the processes of national identity constructions on the Balkans during the nineteenth and twentieth century Cosmas' 'Homily' again played a remarkable role. The present study provides the first complete translation into a western language of Begunov's 1973 critical edition Inhalt 7 Abkürzungen 9 Einleitung 11 Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Beseda 11 Editionen der Schrift des Kozma 12 Forschungswege zum Bogomilismus 13 Fragestellung und Vorgehen dieser Einführung 14 Makrostruktur und literarische Gattung der Beseda 15 Historische Kontextualisierung der Schrift gegen die Bogomilen 21 Kozma als Schriftsteller: Literarische Mikrostrukturen und mimetischer Grundansatz 28 Biblische, kirchenrechtliche, homiletische und liturgische Quellen der Beseda 33 Der Bogomilismus bei Kozma und bei Euthymius Zigabenus 44 Die Beseda als sozialgeschichtliche Quelle 51 Kozmas Pneumatologie 54 English Summary 57 Quellen und Literatur 59 Quellen 59 Sekundärliteratur 64 Rede des unwürdigen Priesters Kozma gegen die neu erschienene Häresie Bogomils 71 Teil I: Darstellung und Wiederlegung der Lehren der Bogomilen 71 Teil II: Das kanonische Verständnis von Mönchtum und Ehe 109 Teil III: Ermahnung der Orthodoxen 128 Indices 145 Bibelstellen 145 Personen, antike, biblische und mittelalterliche 150 Personen, neuzeitliche 151 Begriffe und Sachen 153