Polemic texts on issues of Orthodox-Catholic relations occupy, for various reasons, a
prominent place among publications in Ukrainian literature of the late 16th — early 17th
centuries. Because of this, researchers of the history of Ukrainian literature continue to
be interested in them. The history of the study of interconfessional polem ics depends
to a large extent on political contexts, primarily on the national and religious policies
of states. Objective interpretation of polem ical prose of the late 16th to the early 18th
centuries, however, warrants exem ption from the influence of this state of affairs and
the transfer of the focus of attention to the plane of literary communication. In such a
context polemical texts can be seen as a manifestation of societal dialogue, reflecting the
search of Ukrainian Baroque writers for their identity in the context of a civilizational
dialogue between East and West and in geopolitical changes of the Reformation era.