V monografii vpervye daetsya nauchnoe predstavlenie ob osobennostyakh razvitiya pravoslavnoy literatury v Rossii XVIII veka v svyazi s literaturnym protsessom vremeni. V pole nauchnogo issledovaniya vvoditsya sochinenie vidnogo dukhovnogo pisatelya Tikhona Zadonskogo - "Sokrovishche dukhovnoe, ot mira sobiraemoe" - otnosyashcheesya k maloizuchennym proizvedeniyam tserkovnoy literatury - sbornikam nravouchitel'nogo soderzhaniya, prednaznachennym dlya khristianskogo chteniya. Vyyavlyayutsya osobennosti poetiki sochineniya v sochetanii vedushchikh priemov sravneniya "mirskogo i dukhovnogo" i...