О протестантских влияниях действительных и мнимых: православные катехизисы от Стефана Зизания до Феофана Прокоповича

Abstract

Feofan Prokopovich’s contemporaries believed that his catechetical works contained elements of Protestant dogma. And in historiography it is commonly considered that Feofan’s theological treatises became the channel for the penetration of Protestant dogma into Russian religious thought. Similar accusations were addressed to some Orthodox authors of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the first half of the 17th Century (Stefan Zizani and others), whose catechetical works received wide distribution in Russia and determined the vector of development of the Russian catechetical tradition. This article analyses what specific arguments were put forward by critics and from which theological position, and whether these accusations testify to the actual presence of elements of Protestant dogma in the Orthodox literature of the era, or whether we are dealing with a polemical argument.

Keywords

• Feofan Prokopovich
• Stefan Zizani
• catechism
• Protestant influences in Orthodox letters
• religious polemics