- How to find a spiritual father?
- What is the greater heresy, Nestorianism or Monophysitism?
- For hundreds of years, the Russian Orthodox church directly owned people, 'church serfs'. How to grapple with this fact? It seems abhorrent.
1.) Pray and search by going to a parish and/or search online and email.
- How to find a spiritual father?
- What is the greater heresy, Nestorianism or Monophysitism?
- For hundreds of years, the Russian Orthodox church directly owned people, 'church serfs'. How to grapple with this fact? It seems abhorrent.
Thanks for the welcome, I need more sense of orthodox community in my life. My source on point 3 is Alexander Pushkin's history of the Pugachyov rebellion, but it's not hard to find info on, just search 'church serfs Russia'. Even more disturbing is how much their conditions inspired them to revolt. Church serfs were a thing from early on in christianisation. Peter III (1762) nominally liberated them but the effect was very slow to take hold.Welcome to CF, and to TAW.
1. Ask your priest.
2. Wrong is wrong, and I'm doubtful of any benefit of analyzing either heresy to be "more" incorrect.
3. This is a pretty bold claim, and I'd be grateful if you'd be able to cite a source that this ever occurred. In particular that the Russian Orthodox Church "directly owned people". I've not heard, or read this so I'd be appreciative of a source.
Thanks for the welcome, I need more sense of orthodox community in my life. My source on point 3 is Alexander Pushkin's history of the Pugachyov rebellion, but it's not hard to find info on, just search 'church serfs Russia'. Even more disturbing is how much their conditions inspired them to revolt. Church serfs were a thing from early on in christianisation. Peter III (1762) nominally liberated them but the effect was very slow to take hold.
Meanwhile in Romania, monasteries owned straight up slaves (Roma/gypsies).
According to Wiki, the majority of serfs in Russia were people living in poverty who voluntarily sold themselves into serfdom to avoid poverty, so really you could almost see it as more like a social welfare program. They go to be a servant in a warm house, and they get free room and board.For hundreds of years, the Russian Orthodox church directly owned people, 'church serfs'. How to grapple with this fact? It seems abhorrent.
either one of us are Monophysites, but because of linguistic errors in the 5th century, well, the rest is history.
So I very much doubt that it existed in Russia.
Who said it's abhorrent? Serfdom was the way of humanity for 80% ( pareto principle) of the worlds population, up until a century ago. This is how the vast majority of the Agrarian epoch worked. Still does, why do you think everyone says we need the undocumented to pick the crops. Don't listen to modernists who have no inkling of the socio-economic structures of ancient times. Serfdom was so prevalent that according to the bible it was God's punishment on mankind for eternity: Genesis 3:17- 19hundreds of years, the Russian Orthodox church directly owned people, 'church serfs'. How to grapple with this fact? It seems abhorrent