Bodoh bagi Kristus

Bodoh bagi Kristus (Fool-for-Christ; Rusia: юродивый, yurodivy) adalah orang kudus yang dikenal karena penampilan dan perilaku anehnya, namun kegilaannya yang kudus. Mereka mengambil penampilan kegilaan dan penderitaan akibat penistaan, penghinaan dan fitnah dari orang-orang di sekitar mereka, terkena kejahatan-kejahatan manusia, membawa mereka dalam kekuasaan pada indra mereka, untuk menghibur penderitaan.

Catatan

Referensi

Parry, Ken; David Melling; Dimitri Brady; Sidney H. Griffith; John F. Healey, ed. (1999). The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Malden, MA.: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-631-23203-2.
Russia and the Russians, Geoffrey Hosking; ISBN 0-14-029788-X
Yurodstvo, by S.Kobets
S.A. Ivanov. Symeon the New Theologian as Foolishness for Christ Diarsipkan 2011-07-16 di Wayback Machine. (in French)
Georg Feuerstein. Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools and Rascal Gurus (Spirituality, Crazy-Wise Teachers, and Enlightenment). Hohm Press, 2006.
Marius Kociejowski The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2004, contains much on holy folly in both the Christian and Islamic traditions
Svitlana Kobets, "From the Tabennisi nunnery to Pussy Riot: female holy fools in Byzantium and Russia," Canadian Slavonic Papers 60, no. 1-2 (2018)

Bacaan tambahan

Petzold, H.G. (1968): Gottes heilige Narren. Hochland 2, 1968, 97-109.
Petzold, H.G. (1977): Zur Frömmigkeit der heiligen Narren. In: Die Einheit der Kirche. Festschrift für Peter Meinhold, hrsg. v. Lorenz Hein. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 140-153.