Essays on the History of the Russian Church

KARTASHEV Anton Vladimirovich (1875-1960), Russian. Pravosl. historian, theologian and biblical scholar. It is he who closes the chain of church academic thought of the 19th and mid-20th centuries, for after him there has not yet been created a new all-encompassing work on church history, published under one author's name. 

RU Vladimir Schneider January 2004 http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/russian/ocherki_kartashev_2.zip 1.0

A. V. Kartashev

Essays on the History of the Russian Church

Volume II

Patriarchal period (1586-1700)

Introduction.

Establishment of the Patriarchate.

Job - Patriarch (1589-1605). The political role of Patras. Job. Religious policy of the Impostor. Patriarch Ignatius (1605-1606). Tsar Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky. Patriarch Ermogen (1606-1612). The state-church ministry of St. Ermogen. The Influence of the Feat of Patriarch Ermogenes.

7 years of inter-patriarchy. The state role of the Church.

Deprivations and sufferings of the Church from the Time of Troubles.

The inner life of the Church.

Attempts to correct liturgical books. Patriarch Filaret (1619-1634). The ecclesiastical evils of the day under Pat. Philarete. Church and book business under Filaret. The beginning of school. To the characteristics of Patras. Philaret. Joasaph I (1634-1640).

Patriarch Joseph (1642-1652). Book business under Pat. Joseph. The school question. Ideological revival. Internal conflict in ideology. "Moscow - III Rome". The influence of the new idea on book and ritual corrections. Death of Patriarch Joseph († 15.III.1662). Patriarch Nikon (1652-1658). Correction of books and rituals. The viciousness of the method of correcting books. The emergence of a schism. The discontent of the Orthodox themselves. Judgment of the Council of Russian Bishops of 1666 on Book and Ritual Corrections. Trial of the Old Believers of the New Council of 1666-1667. Nikon's litigation with the tsar. The ideology of Patriarch Nikon. The trial of Patriarch Nikon (1660). The arrival of the patriarchs (1666). Court. Judgments of the Council of 1667 on the Relationship between Church and State. Nikon's End. The beginning of a special history of the Old Believers' schism. Solovetsky revolt. Patriarch Joasaph II (1687-1672). Patriarch Pitirim (1672-1673). Patriarch Joachim (1674-1690). The Council of 1682. Streltsy revolt. Attempts to create a school. School-theological differences of opinion. Attempts to create a Higher Theological School in Moscow. Patriarch Adrian (1690-1700).

Implementation of the Union of Brest and Self-Defense Orthodoxy.

Authoritative and violent methods of introducing the union. Basilians. Self-preservation of the Orthodox side. The role of brotherhoods. The fight against the union. Literary struggle. School wrestling. Merits of monasteries. The restoration of the Orthodox hierarchy of Pat. Theophanes. Legalization of the Orthodox Church after the death of Sigismund III (1633).

Metropolitan Petro Mohyla (1632-1647).

Scholarly and Theological Creativity of the Kiev Mohyla School.