I. The Publican and the Pharisee Old Believers have a much deeper understanding of their divine services, their order, than adherents of other confessions. Old Believers diligently (though relatively speaking), seriously, and attentively preserve the ancient order, remaining faithful to…
Bishop Mikhail (Semyonov) For seven weeks we fast and mourn, awaiting the great joy—the coming of the Risen Lord. And now the Radiant Bridal Chamber has opened before us. Are we not, even now, in the golden halls of the…
The second part of a public debate between the Pomor, Kondratyev, and the Belokrinitsa representative, Varakin. (August 26) First Speech by D. S. Varakin At this present assembly, we shall consider the question of the eternity of the bloodless sacrifice…
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…
By Iakov Bogatenko In recent times, a rather strange and deeply regrettable phenomenon has been observed among the urban Old Believer community, particularly in central Russia, such as in large cities, not to mention the capitals. Old Believer youth, and…
-By John Raspopin From apostolic times, the Christian Church has periodically faced the question of the interaction and relationship between Divine Revelation and Greek philosophy, which for much of human history served as the foundation for understanding the world and…
– By Roman Atorin The righteous Nicholas Cabasilas Chamaetos, a saint of the 14th century, was an Orthodox theologian, lay ascetic, encyclopedic scholar, mystical philosopher (in the Orthodox sense of the term), and one of the holy fathers who clearly…
-By Roman Atorin The study of the ascetic practice of hesychasm gains particular relevance in light of the contemporary spiritual situation. The hesychast movement, which spread widely in Byzantium, penetrated Rus’ in the mid-fourteenth century. Hesychasm exerted a significant influence…
-Dimitry Urushev In rare books on 18th-century Russian literature, one seldom encounters the name of Simeon Denisov. Among the “enlightened men” like the poets Kantemir, Sumarokov, or Kheraskov, who sang in a European style of “the heart’s bitter sorrows,” there…
–Gleb Chistyakov At the outset of my presentation, I would like to turn to the relatively recent past—the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was, without exaggeration, a romantic time when many believed that a truly free and genuinely equal…