Misja państwa moskiewskiego według Zosimy, Filoteusza i Agafona
Mission of Muscovy according to Zosimus, Philotheus and Agafon

Summary/Abstract: The main concept of this work is the presentation of ideas created by three important personalities of the Muscovite Rus at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century: the metropolitan of Moscow Zosimus the Bearded, the monk Philotheus of Pskov and the Novgorodian clergyman Agafon. They tried to present a new mission of Muscovy through the eschatological and confessional-ecclesiological prism. In the specific religious-historical context, the Byzantine concept of theocratic “divine state” connected with the doctrine of diarchy had to be updated and reconstructed. Zosimus, Philotheus and Agafon formed three ideological models perceiving Moscow and Muscovy as a “new Constantinople”, a “third Rome” and a “new Rome” or a “new Kiev”.

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