History of Slavic text of the creed in the light of history of the 17th century schism

The history of the Slavic-Russian text of the Creed has not been studied practically. The only study of A. Hesen was dedicated to the abstract problem of «restoring the original text» of the Creed. In the article the problem is represented from another perspective — the history of the text development is given against a broad historical background and the 17th century schism events served as a «reference point», when the immutable old and new rite text versions of the Creed were created. Since the reasons for the schism concerned the foundations of Russian people’s ecclesiastical worldview during the junction of Russian medieval and modern times, when Russia became a part of a politically united European space, the article attempts to determine the ideological nature of disagreements between the supporters of old and new rites, and uses the material of the Creed text history.