Stoglav
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The Book of One Hundred Chapters, also called Stoglav (Стоглав) in
Russian church council of 1551 that regulated the canon law and ecclesiastical life in the Tsardom of Russia, especially the everyday life of the Russian clergy.[1]
The book is shaped in the form of answers to some 100 questions posed by
priesthood' and the 'kingdom
'.
The Book of Hundred Chapters canonized the native Muscovite rituals and practices at the expense of those accepted in
Russian monks residing on Mount Athos.[2]
In the mid-17th century, the
Raskol
.
There are at least 100 manuscripts of the Stoglav, all of them produced by the Old Believers. The official church historians of the 18th and 19th centuries (such as Platon Levshin) discarded these texts as spurious. Their authenticity was reasserted by historian Ivan Belyayev in 1863.[4]
References
- ^ Jack Kollmann. The Moscow Stoglav ('Hundred Chapters') Church Council of 1551 (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978).
- ^ Steven Runciman. The Great Church in Captivity. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Page 329.
- ^ Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 5, Eastern Christianity. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Page 320.
- ^ "Просмотр документа - dlib.RSL.ru".