Potoczny, Mateusz Rafał (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2021)
The aim of this study is to make known to the reader the theology of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in the Assyrian Church of the East and with its Liturgy called “Order of Pardon” (taksā d-ḥusāyā). The research has been based on the genuine Syriac patristic tradition and on the most important liturgical source, i.e. the Order edited by the prominent catholicos Ishā’Yahb III (†659). The analysis includes the explanation of theological image of the “robe of glory”, which creates the link between the Sacrament of Penance itself and Baptism, the theological meaning of Christian conversion and the presentation of taksā d-ḥusāyā. The study shows the Syro-Oriental celebration of the Sacrament as a comprehensive and theologically coherent with the Rites in the other Christian communities. Some peculiarities of this Ordo attest its originality and don’t depreciate in any way its theological and liturgical value.
