18th-century Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Orthodox Christians who resist reforms of Nikon in 1652–1666, religious movement in Imperial Russia

The Philokalia (, from philia "love" and kallos "beauty") is "a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters" of the mystical hesychast tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They were originally written for the guidance and instruction of monks in "the practice of the contemplative life". The collection was compiled in the 18th century by Nicodemus the Hagiorite and Macarius of Corinth based on the codices 472 (12th century), 605 (13th century), 476 (14th century), 628 (14th century) and 629 (15th century) from the library of the monastery of Vatopedi

thumb|320x320px|Church of the Protection of the Theotokos in Rubtsovo in Moscow, where the Patriarchal Centre of the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition Edinoverie () is an arrangement between certain Russian Old Believers communities and the official Russian Orthodox Church, whereby such communities are treated as a part of the normative Church system while maintaining their own rites. Thus, they are often designated "Old Ritualists" (, staroobryadtsy), as opposed to "Old Believers". The followers of this movement preserve the ancient liturgical rites (like , services according to pre-reform pri

thumb The Kollyvades () were the members of a movement within the Eastern Orthodox Church that began in the second half of the eighteenth century among the monastic community of Mount Athos, which was concerned with the restoration of traditional practices and opposition to unwarranted innovations, and which turned unexpectedly into a movement of spiritual regeneration. As Metropolitan Kallistos Ware succinctly points out: