The Teaching of the Ancient Church on Property and Alms

The Teaching of the Ancient Church on Property and Almsgiving. Kiev, 1910. Foreword: Somin N. V.

Oscopynsky, Vasily Ilyich.

E 36 The Doctrine of the Ancient Church on Property and Almsgiving / V. I. Copynsky. — Krasnodar: Text, 2013. 272 p.

ISBN 978-5-903298-11-2

The book by Professor V. I. Oscopynsky offered to the reader is truly unique. Copymansky's work is the only monograph in Russian theology entirely devoted to the question of property and wealth from the patristic point of view. Its content is entirely based on the teaching of church writers and holy fathers of the III-V centuries: Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian of Carthage, Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Blg. Augustine, blg. A good half of the text of the book consists of excerpts from Scripture or patristic tradition (about 300 quotations from the Bible and about 700 from the Holy Fathers). And so, on the basis of such extensive material, Oscopynsky recreates the patristic teaching on property and almsgiving, which has an amazing height. The Russian theologian convincingly shows that the basis of the patristic teaching is mercy and love for one's neighbor. In the Appendix is published a small work by Archbishop. Vasily (Krivoshein), devoted to the same question, considered on the basis of the works of St. Symeon the New Theologian.

The book is intended for theologians, philosophers, historians and all those interested in the fate of Orthodoxy.

ISBN 978-5-903298-11-2

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INTRODUCTION. V. I. Copynsky and his book "The Teaching of the Ancient Church on Property and Alms"[1]

Vasily Ilyich Oscopynsky was born in 1875 in Kiev, in the family of a priest. His father, Archpriest Ilya Tikhonovich Oscopynsky, became a widower after the birth of his son and became a monk with the name Jerome. In 1885, he was consecrated bishop, and died in 1905 as Archbishop of Warsaw. In his memoirs, he remained as an unusually attentive and benevolent archpastor: "The saint amazed everyone who knew him with his exceptional affability, affectionate speech, devoid of offensive reproach, gentle treatment of a sorrowful, restless and even guilty soul before him. Such warmth and kindness of the soul was felt that sincerity enveloped the person, and he expressed all his innermost things, as to a kind, sympathetic father."

In 1904, Vasily Oscopynsky graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy, defended his master's thesis "Biblical and Patristic Teaching on the Essence of the Priesthood" and became a professor of moral theology at the Kiev Theological Academy and Secretary of the Kiev Philosophical and Religious Society.

In 1911, it was decided to compile a collection of articles about the recently deceased Leo Tolstoy. Copy was also invited to participate. He prepared an article "Gr. Leo Tolstoy and St. John Chrysostom in Their View of the Vital Significance of Christ's Commandments", the main idea of which was that both Tolstoy and John Chrysostom considered the commandments of Christ to be vitally important and requiring fulfillment now, in this earthly life. At the same time, he emphasized that in St. John Chrysostom, in comparison with Tolstoy, this idea is expressed much more vividly and completely. However, against the background of an anti-church information campaign on the part of part of the intelligentsia, which then unfolded in liberal newspapers and magazines, his article was regarded as "defensive" in relation to Tolstoy and "Tolstoyism." Metropolitan Flavian (Gorodetsky) of Kiev, on the basis of a letter from the rector of the Kiev Academy, Bishop Innocent (Yastrebov), passed in the Synod a decision to expel Oscopynsky from the Academy.