Catechism of the Orthodox Church by St. Philaret of Moscow
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Blackmore, R. W., trans. The Doctrine of the Russian Church. Aberdeen; New York: A. Brown and Co.; Appletons, 1845.
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II. and III. The Shorter and Longer Catechisms are printed and published by the Synodal Press not only in the Slavonic, but also in the modern-Russian character and idiom. Both of them in that form, in which they now stand, and in which alone they are enjoined to be used, were drawn up by Philaret, the present illustrious Metropolitan of Moscow, and after careful revision were not merely approved and licensed, but adopted and promulgated by the Most Holy Synod as the Catechisms of the Church Herself, A.D. 1839. The Longer Catechism, in particular, having been translated into Greek, and sent to all the Eastern Patriarchs and other Churches of the same Rite and Communion, and having been received on all sides with unanimous approbation, has a just claim to that title which it bears in the original, and which literally translated would stand thus: A Full Catechism of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the East: though the word ‘Full’ having reference also to the ‘Short Catechism’ of the Russian Church, it was found difficult to give this title with exactness in the translation.
It must not, however, be supposed that these two Catechisms either in their present form, or in that in which they were first published for the single Diocese of Moscow, originated solely with the Metropolitan, who has been named as their Author. They are in fact, though recast, and much improved in method and style by his labour, and by that of the Synod itself, yet in substance the representatives of older Catechisms under similar titles, which have been from time to time authorized by the Spiritual Authorities; though none before these have ever been appropriated in so distinct a manner by the Church Herself. Such were the Russian Catechism drawn up in the reign of Peter I., and The Shorter and Longer Catechisms sanctioned by the Synod under Catherine II. on the occasion of the establishment of Schools for the people in Russia, which went through many editions. Such again were the three Catechisms, and the Orthodox Doctrine, or Summary of Christian Divinity, composed by Platon, sometime Metropolitan of Moscow; the latter of which appeared first in the year 1762, and is a work of very considerable authority, having been translated into no less than eight languages, and received into use with general approbation beyond the limits of the Russian Church. But all these, and other similar publications which might be named, are no ways to be compared in point of authority with the Catechisms given in the present Volume.
R. W. Blackmore, trans., The Doctrine of the Russian Church (Aberdeen; New York: A. Brown and Co.; Appletons, 1845), vi–vii.So they're in Logos - just hidden.
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