The Replies of the Humble Nicon, by the Mercy of God Patriarch, Against the Questions of the Boyar Simeon Streshneff

And the Answers of the Metropolitan of Gaza Paisius Ligarides

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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William Palmer (1811-1879) was a theologian and ecumenist best known for his attempts to forge links between the Anglican and Orthodox churches. Palmer was elected a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1832, and became an adherent of the Oxford Movement, which emphasised the catholicity of the Anglican church. In the 1840s and 1850s Palmer visited Russia with the controversial aim of studying Orthodox theology and being admitted to communion by the Russian church. His request was refused, however, and his visit deemed a failure. Palmer converted to Roman Catholicism in 1855. The Replies of the Humble Nicon (1871) is volume 1 of The Patriarch and the Tsar (1871-1876), Palmer's six-volume translation of documents relating to the life of Nicon (1605-1681), Patriarch of Moscow, whose theological reforms brought him into conflict with the Muscovite Tsar Alexis.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-07-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 40 mm
Vikt:900 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Library Collection - European History
Antal sidor:720
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108014557
Översättare:William Palmer, Palmer William

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Preface; 1. Nicon, when already a bishop, was reordained. What is to be said of this?; 2. Nicon forbade that condemned felons should be confessed and communicated. What of this?; 3. Nicon, in robing, used a comb and a looking-glass. Is this right?; 4. Nicon, after abdicating the patriarchate, still ordains. What of this?; 5. Is a verbal abdication enough?; 6. Are the bishops culpable for not having disallowed Nicon's evil device?; 7. Would it be well that a synod should be held to settle this matter of the patriarch, that so there be no scandals and disturbances in the empire?; 8. Can the Tsar convoke that synod; or must it be convoked by patriarchal authority?; 9. Nicon contemned the synod held here at Moscow by command of the Tsar, and called it 'a Judaical synagogue'. What is to be said of this?; 10. What is to be said to the assertion that the patriarch is the head?; 11. Can the members judge the head, and their own ruler?; 12. Nicon would never call the bishops his brethren, but regarded them all as vastly beneath him, because they had been consecrated by him. What of this?; 13. Nicon styled himself 'Great Hossoudar', because the Tsar always so called him. Did he do wrong?; 14. Nicon is now building a monastery, and he has named it 'The New Jerusalem'. Is it well so to transfer, and to dishonour, the name of the Holy City?; 15. Does not St. Germanus say that the prothesis figures Bethlehem, and the holy throne Christ's sepulchre?; 16. Nicon plundered the episcopal see of Kolomna, not liking to have another bishop so close to the patriarch. What is to be said of this?; 17. Nicon organises baggage-trains, and builds fortified precincts, and loves to dwell in waste and unpeopled places; and he has filled those places with his hired men and retainers. Should a bishop do thus?; 18. Nicon says that he is not out of his diocese, but has withdrawn from Moscow only for temporary reasons; 19. Was it right in Nicon to fly through fear?; 20. Has the Tsar sinned in that he has let the Church remain in widowhood?; 21. And if there are any bishops and boyars who do not petition the Tsar, and move him to make a complete end, and to set all to rights in this business, do they sin; 22. Nicon anathematises and interdicts. But is his curse now of any force?; 23. Is it proper for a bishop to scourge, and to strike, and to exile?; 24. Our most prosperous Tsar committed to Nicon the supervision of all ecclesiastical causes. What is to be said of this?; 25. Has the Tsar power to take away those privileges from the man to whom he may have granted them?; 26. Nicon inveighs against the Tsar, because he established the Monastery Court, and placed in it lay judges; and because he appoints to monasteries archimandrites and hegoumens. What of this?; 27. What of one who calls our Tsar a tyrant, and dares to revile him as an unrighteous invader and plundered; what out to be done to him, according to the canons?; 28. Nicon justifies himself by this, that they never summoned him to a synod to clear himself by giving reasons for his departure. What are we to say?; 29. Nicon blames his bishops because they have not kept their oaths, but have cast him off, and gone off from their obedience to him. What of this?; 30. Nicon cursed the Boyar Simeon Lucian Streshneff for teaching his dog to bless like the patriarch. Is it right to curse for such a cause?.