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Conversations of Old Believers of the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy with Pomorian Old Believers in Moscow, 1913 (Stenographic Record) Moscow 1915 Preface At the initiative of the doctrinal commission of the Moscow Brotherhood of the Holy Cross of the Old Believers of the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, public conversations were held in Moscow in 1913 between the aforementioned Old…
By F.E. Melnikov Old Belief is generally understood to mean that Russian religious movement which unites millions of people, commonly called Old Believers. But such a definition clarifies nothing of substance, for the very nature of this “ecclesiastical movement” remains unexplained. The vast literature on Old Belief contains a wide variety of definitions. According to…
–UNDER CONSTRUCTION– Introduction Three hundred years ago, Russia professed a single Christian, Orthodox faith and formed a single true Orthodox Church. At that time, there were no heresies, no schisms, no divisions within the Russian Church. For more than six centuries, beginning from the Baptism of Rus’ in 988, the Russian Church enjoyed inner peace…
(On the Contemporary Disputes over the Names of God)[Moscow, 1913] Introduction A wondrous fate befell the creation of the former Patriarch of Russia, Nikon. The reforms he instituted resemble, in many respects, that house of which Christ speaks in the Gospel—“and great was the fall of it.” “Everyone who heareth these sayings of Mine,” the…
The sign of the Cross is a gesture made with the fingers of the hand arranged in a specific way. According to apostolic tradition, to make the sign of the Cross one must join together three fingers of the right hand—the thumb, ring finger, and little finger—as a sign of faith in the Holy Trinity….