{"id":550,"date":"2020-01-29T02:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=550"},"modified":"2020-01-29T04:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T04:20:49","slug":"lack-of-christianity-in-the-lay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/bsclark\/lack-of-christianity-in-the-lay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Christianity in The Lay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps because we were reading this text after reading lives of saints, but I was surprised at the distinct lack of Christian imagery, which I was expecting because of the nation\u2019s recent (or at least Kiev\u2019s) baptism. Going through I could only count a few times where \u201cGod\u201d was mentioned, and even so there was no reference to Jesus or the Holy spirit. Instead the text seemed rooted in naturalistic spiritual forces, those which would reflect the old pagan Gods. This is pure speculation, but perhaps due to this being an oral story originally, one which is unclear of whether it originates from the capital center, this could reflect a different religious sentiment of those who told it than the official government Christian decree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, at the end \u201cGod shows the way to Igor, the way from Kuman land, to the Russian land,\u201d but instead of calling upon God earlier in the epic for guidance or strength it seems instead the text is obsessed with underlying, unchristian, natural forces. This text under any examination is not Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps because we were reading this text after reading lives of saints, but I was surprised at the distinct lack of Christian imagery, which I was expecting because of the nation\u2019s recent (or at least Kiev\u2019s) baptism. Going through I could only count a few times where \u201cGod\u201d was mentioned, and even so there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-2-the-tartar-yoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}