Historiographical assessments and historical lessons of the Old Believer Schism of the 17th century
https://doi.org/10.21285/2415-8739-2023-4-107-115
EDN: JTZZYM
Abstract
The article refers to a very important and controversial page in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, namely, the «Nikon Schism». A believing person, with his whole life and with his every deed, strives only for one goal to come to God again, to come to where he was expelled from and dissolve in his universal kindness and protection. However, the rites and actions of a person throughout the existence of Orthodoxy, and Christianity as a whole, were not always performed in the same form. What is it an apostasy, a distortion of the fundamental elements of faith or an attempt to introduce something of one's own? The consideration of such issues has always been not complex, but in a narrow form, so the Old Believers were mainly engaged in the practical component of understanding the Church. Disputes of researchers of the Old Believers do not subside even now. What is it the strength of the ideas of the Old Believers or its ignorance? Among other things, the researchers put the opposition of Orthodoxy to Catholicism as the reason for the split. They saw in this exclusively their own path in the history of Orthodoxy, where there was an element of a departure from an independent choice of path in theological approaches to Orthodoxy, and this vision also explained the essence of the split in the state the split between the ROC and the state. The study and understanding of the various components of the Old Believers by various domestic philosophers and historians makes it possible to form not only a complete picture of this phenomenon, but also to approach the causes of the emergence of the Old Believers. Patriarch Nikon had focused on Greek traditions, on correcting texts. Was there any sense in this, but this led to a split in the Russian Orthodox Church. The main component of this article lies in the position that the Church is one, and this is precisely the Orthodox Church. But the path she follows is far from easy.
About the Authors
S. V. Karasev
Irkutsk National Research Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey V. Karasev,
Dr. Sci. (History), Professor of the Department of History and Philosophy
83, Lermontov St., Irkutsk 664074
A. N. Malygin
Church of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara; Military Unit 59968
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton N. Malygin,
Rector; Assistant commander for work with religious soldiers
36В, district «Zel’onyy», Irkutsk 664078
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