“It is necessary to act with extreme caution in order to protect the soviet authorities from any accusations of interference in religious affairs”. An unknown document of the State Political Directorate on instigating the split in the Russian Orthodox Church [PDF]
The article introduces a new document of the GPU Secret Department on the instigating the Renovationist split in the Russian Orthodox Church. This is the postal telegram No.
Savin Andrey
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To the question about «the revisionist nature of sergianstvo» [PDF]
The article deals with ecclesiastical polemics 1920–1930-ies, namely the prosecution of the Deputy Locum Tenens Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) in the pursuit of innovative ways as they pushed against him by the representatives of the «right» Church ...
Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest
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The Letters of the Holy Martyr Benjamin, Metropolitan of Petrograd to Holy hierarch Tikhon, the Patriarch Moscow and All Russia (the publication) [PDF]
The publication off ers the unknown letter metropolitan Benjamin to Holy Patriarch Tikhon (the Moscow metropolitan in that time) in September, 1917 — July, 1918.
Smoliakova Inna
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Schism – and Reformed theology? [PDF]
The article deals with the question of schism in the Reformed faith and ecclesiology, by focusing on four fundamental issues developed in the form of five theses each.
D.J. Smit, Smit, D.J.
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Archbishop Ieronim (Baritsky) and His Investigative Case of 1936 [PDF]
At the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century, there was a split in the Church caused by the organization of the Provisional Supreme Church Council. For almost ten years, the Council’s structures have been steadily developing and strengthening,
Valery V. Lavrinov, archpriest
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Freedom of Church and Freedom of Society: Historical Experience and Actual Problem in Today’s Russia [PDF]
The article deals with the interrelation between the freedom of the church and the freedom of the society in Russian history and in the contemporary period.
Margaret Shilkina
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Religious Life of the Urals in the Soviet Period: A Contemporary’s Testimony [PDF]
The article presents the memoirs of Alexander Sergeevich Lukanin, one of the descendants of a priestly dynasty known in the Urals. The memoirs are the answers of A. S.
Archpriest Valery V. Lavrinov
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“THE LORD SEER-OF-HEARTS HOLDS ME IN HIS RIGHT HAND…” (TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF ARCHPRIEST VASILY NIKULCHEV) [PDF]
This article is part of a series of publications, which the author devoted to the fate of a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, who followed the path of a confessor after the revolutionary events of 1917.
Hieromonk Antony (A. V. Malinsky)
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English This article presents an approach to resolving religious and sexuality based schism amongst UK social work students. It explores how this classroom schism mirrored current religion and sexuality based tensions in wider society including social ...
Melville-Wiseman, J.
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The spread of the Renovationist schism in the Chelyabinsk’s diocese
Публикуемые документы иллюстрируют процесс распространения обновленческого раскола на территории Челябинской епархии в 1920-е гг. Приводятся свидетельства о той роли, которую играли епископы, приходские священники и миряне (в лице приходских советов) в ...
Каплин, П. В., Kaplin, P. V.
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