Hierarchy and ‘Sobornost’: Toward the Philosophy of Religious Identity of Old Orthodox Believers (Pomorian Church)
The article offers review and systematic characteristics of the religious and historical identity (or self-understanding) of the Old Orthodox Christians (Pomorians), who suffered for a long time in their standing in the Christian faith. The author argued to the fundamental “Pomor Answers” (“Answers of the Hermits to the Questions of Hieromonk Neophyte”, 1723) and other documents of the historical memory of the Old Believers of the Pomor Accord points to the traditionally conciliar structure of Orthodox life, the basic meanings of the folk faith and the features of the historical, Byzantine-state provisions of the church hierarchy of Russian Orthodoxy. Possible ways to resolve disagreements between the Old Believers of various accords and the New Believers of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church are outlined in order to achieve the optimal ratio of the principles of hierarchy and catholicity (‘sobornost’) in church life, taking into account the philosophical and theological reflections of Russian Slavophile thinkers.
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