Russian sects and their currents
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Russian sects and their currents
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Archpriest Timothy Butkevich is a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, theologian, publicist, professor at Kharkov University, and member of the State Council. T.I. Butkevich presented in his work rich factual information about religious movements in Russia: whips, shaloputs, lubkovtsy, churikovtsy, montans, marjanovshchina, seraphimovtsy, doves, skoptsy, dukhobortsy, molokan, Judaizers (subbotniki), jumpers, shtundobaptists, pashkovtsy, igovists, adventists, tolstovtsy and many other local forms of sectarianism. The researcher has given information about the sects according to a unified scheme, presenting their history of development, the fates of their leaders and their adherents, their state at the beginning of the twentieth century, the doctrine expressed in various religious, polemical and folklore texts, which he actively quotes. Distinctive features of the doctrines are presented, and their theological refutation is given.
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