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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">patristic</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Библия и христианская древность</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Bible and Christian Antiquity</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2658−7815</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2713-1122</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Московская духовная академия</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31802/BCA.2026.8.2.003</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">patristic-378</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ. Восточное христианство</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>RESEARCHES. Eastern Christianity</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Богословие Герасима, мелькитского апологета XIII в.</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Theology of Gerasim, a 13th Century Melkite Apologist</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2149-931X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Давыденков</surname><given-names>О.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Davydenkov</surname><given-names>O.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Протоиерей Олег Давыденков, доктор теологии, кандидат философских наук, заведующий кафедрой восточно-христианской филологии и Восточных Церквей</p><p>127051, г. Москва, Лихов пер., д. 6, стр. 1</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Archpriest Oleg Davydenkov, Doctor of Theology, PhD in Philosophy, Head of the Department of the History and Literature of the Ancient Eastern Churches</p><p>6, bld. 1, Likhov lane, Moscow 127051</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">odavydenkov@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Православный Свято-Тихоновский гуманитарный университет</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>04</day><month>08</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>102</fpage><lpage>130</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Давыденков О., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Давыденков О.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Davydenkov O.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.patristic.ru/jour/article/view/378">https://www.patristic.ru/jour/article/view/378</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье рассматривается догматическое учение (троичное учение и христология), содержащееся в «Полной книге исцеляющего смысла («Апология»)» — главном сочинении Герасима, игумена монастыря Прп. Симеона Столпника на Дивной горе. Богословие Герасима (XIII в.) представляет интерес в связи с тем, что он был фактически последним значительным средневековым православным арабоязычным автором и, таким образом, его сочинение можно рассматривать как своего рода итог пятисот лет развития мелькитской богословской и апологетической мысли. Несмотря на то, что в «Апологии» догматическое учение представлено достаточно фрагментарно, это произведение позволяет дать общую оценку богословию Герасима. Как в тринитарном учении, так и в христологии Герасим выступает как типичный представитель мелькитской традиции. Его терминологическая система характеризуется ясностью и небольшим числом используемых богословских терминов, что выгодно отличает Герасима от многих мелькитских авторов. В своём тринитарном учении он продолжает восходящую к Великим каппадокийцам традицию троичного богословия, основанного на предпосылке о всецелом воплощении общего в единичном, ему полностью чужды как концепция частных сущностей, так и атрибутистская триадология, получившая в X–XIII вв. распространение и среди мелькитских богословов. Для дифизитской христологии Герасима характерен, как и для многих мелькитов, акцент на ипостасном тождестве Христа и Сына Божия до воплощения. Главным патристическим источником для Герасима как в противомусульманской апологетике, так и в догматическом учении служат сочинения основателя мелькитской богословской традиции Феодора Абу Курры, что не исключает знакомства автора «Апологии» с произведениями, по крайней мере, некоторых грекоязычных отцов Церкви. «Полная книга исцеляющего смысла» даёт основания говорить о Герасиме как об одном из наиболее значительных мелькитских апологетов и богословов.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This article examines the dogmatic teaching (Trinitarian doctrine and Christology) contained in the main work of Gerasimus, abbot of the monastery of St. Simeon the Stylite located about twenty kilometers from Antioch, The Complete Book of Healing Meaning (Apology). The theology of Gerasimus (13th century) is of interest because he was essentially the last significant medieval Orthodox author in Arabic, and thus his work can be seen as a kind of summary of five hundred years of Melkite theological and apologetic thought. Although the Apology presents dogmatic teaching rather fragmentarily, it allows for a general assessment of Gerasimus’s theology. In both Trinitarian doctrine and Christology, Gerasimus emerges as a typical representative of the Melkite tradition. His terminology is characterized by clarity and a limited use of theological terms, which distinguishes Gerasimus from many Melkite authors. In his Trinitarian teaching, he continues the tradition of Trinitarian theology, derived from the Cappadocian fathers, based on the premise of the complete actualization of the general in the particular. He is completely alien to both the concept of particular substances and the attributive Trinitarian doctrine that became widespread among Melkite theologians in the 10th–13th centuries. Gerasimus’s diphysite Christology, like that of many Melkites, is characterized by an emphasis on the hypostatic identity of Christ and the Son of God before the Incarnation. Gerasimus’s primary patristic source, both in his anti-Muslim apologetics and in his dogmatic teaching, is the writings of Theodore Abu Qurrah, the founder of the Melkite theological tradition. This does not preclude the author of the Apology from being familiar with the works of at least some Greek-speaking Church Fathers. The Complete Book of Healing Meaning provides grounds for considering Gerasimus one of the most significant Melkite apologists and theologians.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>арабы-христиане</kwd><kwd>мелькиты</kwd><kwd>арабо-христианская литература</kwd><kwd>троичное богословие</kwd><kwd>христология</kwd><kwd>богословская терминология</kwd><kwd>«Полная книга исцеляющего смысла»</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Arab Christians</kwd><kwd>Melkites</kwd><kwd>Arab-Christian literature</kwd><kwd>Trinitarian theology</kwd><kwd>Christology</kwd><kwd>theological terminology</kwd><kwd>The Complete Book of Healing Meaning</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Давыденков О., прот. Герасим, малоизвестный мелькитский апологет // Библия и христианская древность. 2025. № 4 (28). 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