The Orthodox Doctrine on the Church: An Essay

This essay on the Orthodox Church was first circulated in pamphlets, with neither a title nor Khomiakov’s name. Its purpose was to convey that “only in the self-consciousness of the Orthodox Church is preserved the entireness of Christian doctrine, which, in the rationalistic sphere of the Latino-Protestant world, have, so to say, split into two opposite and, apparently, mutually exclusive terms: of unity of confession and freedom of conscience, of faith justifying without works, and of works in the sense of merits supplementary to faith.”