Orthodoxy and modernity. Electronic library.
Metropolitan Macarius II (1534-1555)
Question about the Metropolis of Galicia
General characteristics of the situation of the Orthodox Church in the first half of the XVI century: the reign of Sigismund I (1506-1548)
Protestantism in Poland and Lithuania
Sigismund II Augustus led. Prince of Lithuania from 1544 and King of Poland from 1548 to 1572.
Heretics
The Positive Side of Sigismund Augustus' Liberalism for Orthodoxy
Metropolitan Sylvester Belkevich (1556-1567)
Jonah III Protasevich (1568-1576)
Lithuanian State Union (1569). Roman Catholic reaction. Jesuits in Poland
Ilya Ioakimovich Kucha (1576-1579)
Onesiphorus Devocha (Girl) (1579-1589)
Russian Orthodox Education
Ostrog Bible 1580-81
Ostroh school
Brotherhood
Vilna St. Trinity Brotherhood
Fraternal Schools
The literary struggle of the Russians
An episode in the struggle against the Gregorian calendar (1583-1586)
Sigismund III (1587-1632)
The rudiments of the union
Union
Arrival of Patriarch Jeremiah II
Metropolitan Mikhail Rogoza (1589-1596)
An open struggle for and against the union
Political alliance of Orthodox Christians with Protestants
Action in Rome
Union of Brest-Litovsk of 1596
Cathedral. The beginning of the struggle against the union
Opening of the cathedral
After the Brest Cathedral
Preface
None of the Christian European peoples is characterized by the temptations of such self-denial as the Russians. If this is not a total denial, as in Chaadaev's case, then it is an open, on occasion, emphasis on our backwardness and weakness, as if our qualitative by nature is secondary. This very old-fashioned "Europeanism" has not yet been outlived even in our generations, which are already leaving the scene, nor in our youth, who are growing up in emigrant isolation from Russia. And there, in the large and distorted former USSR, the opposite extreme was imposed. There, both Europeanism and Russism are denied and overshadowed by a supposedly new and more perfect synthesis of so-called economic materialism.