CANON AND VARIABILITY OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SERMON: THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING HOMILETIC RULES
Delimitation homiletic a canon is carried out on a material of the basic sources of the theory of the Christian vicarial sermon. The problem of a polysemy of concept «homiletic a canon» rises. The canon is understood, on the one hand, as a set steady, repeating in homiletic texts of the signs making genre model of the sermon. On the other hand, rules contain initial decisions of Universal Church. The set of sermonlike rules is presented in article in the integrated variant.