BOOKS - HUMAN AND PSYCHOLOGY - Митрополит Филипп
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Митрополит Филипп
Author: Дмитрий Володихин
Year: 2009
Number of pages: 318
Format: PDF | DJVU
File size: 39 MB
Language: RU
Year: 2009
Number of pages: 318
Format: PDF | DJVU
File size: 39 MB
Language: RU
The book of the famous writer and historian D.M. Volodikhin is dedicated to an acute moment in our history: the conflict between Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Metropolitan Philip - the monarch and the Metropolitan House. The main reason for the discord of the two hierarchs is the oprichnina, the "free autocracy," which the king saw as the only legitimate form of power in the Christian state. It was a time of revelry of the "dogs of the sovereign," severe torture and executions. However, Metropolitan Philip, having accepted the system and the rank of Metropolitan in it, was not afraid to declare to the autocratic ruler that the sovereign was obliged to observe the Commandments of God with the same severity as the last beggar on the temple porch. He stands up for the victims of the atrocities committed at the behest of the king by his minions...
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