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From time to time, I will have an inquiry about why the Old Believers were justified in separating from the Church. Was it one issue, or all of them put together? Don’t Old Believers know the teachings and warnings about schism being the gravest of sins? Rather than rail against the presuppositions embedded in these…
From a hectograph of the Old Believers of the priestless zakonobrachnoye (lawful-marriage) soglasie [or agreement/faction] of the early 20th century. The Beginning of the Church, Its Appearance and Composition as It Existed at the Time of Its Initial Establishment, and Its Past, Present, and Future Existence The holy earthly Church Militant received its beginning from…
Apologetic Investigation by Lev Feoktistovich Pichugin The book “The Old Faith” was first published in 1914, shortly after the death of its author, Lev Feoktistovich Pichugin. An outstanding expert [in religious debates], a zealous defender of the Old Belief, he came from a poor family but, thanks to his natural abilities and talents, as well…
-M. L. Vlasov. The Fall of the Priesthood When speaking of the sacrament of Holy Communion, it must be pointed out that not only among us, but nowhere in the world today is it present in a form acceptable to true Christians, because the priesthood with successive ordination — tracing its origin from Christ and…
By Vladimir Shamarin. Samara, 2006. Commissioned by the Russian Council of the Ancient Orthodox Pomorian Church. The book was prepared for publication by the Samara Old Believer Community of the Ancient Orthodox Pomorian Church. For nearly three hundred years, the Ancient Orthodox Church has been forced to exist without priesthood. This occurred by God’s permission,…
-By Nina Lukyanova. “Shake off, ye unbelievers, your mental slumber, open the eyes of your mind and behold: the sun of the world is already setting, night will soon come, the fateful hour will strike suddenly, Christ will appear like lightning—for all is ready. And yet, instead of Christ, Whom we must await with fear…
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…
Knorre B., Iserov A. I. The Last of the Mohicans It is hard to imagine, but some of the strictest branches of Old Believerism still survive today. Among them are the Filippovtsy, an Old Believer sect that emerged among the priestless Old Believers in the early 18th century. The sect was founded by a musketeer…