Abstract:Are you, the Ruthenian, not suffering from infantile reasoning, you who used to be a pious Christian…but having lived with the Poles you became childlike and divided, abandoned Christ and split into the Papist, the Evangelical, the Anabaptist, and the observer of the Sabbath?"1 Thus the monk Ivan Vishenskii (c. 1550-1620), a self-appointed guardian of his nation's ancestral faith, chided his Orthodox compatriots and fellow-believers, writing from the spiritual heights of Mount Athos. Contrary to the prevalent … Show more
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