Essays on the History of the Russian Church

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.

The Fruits of the Orthodox School and Literature.

The reunification of Kievan Rus with Moscow Rus and the annexation of the Kievan Metropolia to the Muscovy.

Synodal period.

Introduction.

The Main Character and Evaluation of the Synodal Period.

The Church under Peter the Great.

Personal religiosity of Peter I. Origin of the Protestant reform. The beginning of the domination of the Little Russian episcopate. The secret beginning of church reform. Open autocratic reform. Manifesto and Oath. Reform of the Reform itself. Peter's "Domestic" Reform and the Criterion of Universality. Recognition of the Synod by the Orthodox Patriarchs. Reflection of the reform in the state legal consciousness. Reaction to the reform in the church consciousness.