"QUEST ABOUT SPLIT BRYNSK FAITH" BY METROPOLITAN DIMITRY OF ROSTOV: SEMIOTIC ASPECT
The article by the example of the heritage of Metropolitan Dimitry of Rostov verifies the conception of the semiotic origins of opposition between Old Believers and the representatives of patriarchal Church in the XVII - at the beginning of the XVIII century. The author concludes that Metropolitan Dimitry in his “Quest about Split Brynsk Faith” denounced Old Believers from the position of the doctrine of Blessed Augustine sign criticizing their ideas about relationship between the sign and the signified in sacred sphere. Assumption is made about the absence of holistic semiotic consciousness among early Old Believers.