Archpriest Mitrofan Znosko-Borovsky

Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, sectarianism.

Comparative Theology

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia

© Moscow Metochion of the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, 1998.

Content

Chapter I

Chapter II: The Fate of the Church of Christ in the World, According to the Word of the Lord and the Apostles. The Duty and Duties of a Christian in Relation to the Church

Chapter III: Apostasies from the Church of Christ from the Second to the Twentieth Centuries

Chapter IV: Western Missionary Work in the East

Chapter V: The Unity of the Church. Relations between the Primates of the Churches

Chapter VI: The Claims of the Roman Bishops to the Primacy of the Church Reasons that caused the elevation of the Roman cathedra

Chapter VII: The Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Which Affirm the Immutability of Dogmatic Definitions of Faith

Chapter VIII: The Dogmatic Deviations of Rome

a) In the doctrine of the Holy Spirit

b) On original sin

c) The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

d) Roman teaching on the Pope and the Church

Part 1 Part 2

Chapter IX: The Origins of the Roman Theory of the Pope's Supremacy and Infallibility The Infallibility of the Popes in the Light of Historical Facts

Chapter X: The Apostasies of Rome in the Celebration of the Sacraments

Chapter XI: Rome and Russia

Chapter XII: The Decline of the Roman Church in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries as the Cause of the Rise of Protestantism

Chapter XIII: Protestantism. Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, England

Chapter XIV: Lutheranism. The Positive Side of the First Reformers

Chapter XV: The Rejection of Church Tradition and the Authority of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Matters of Faith and Church Organization

Chapter XVI: The Doctrine of the State of Man after the Fall, and of His Justification by Faith