Hen Ivan

His first literary work belongs to the Time of Troubles: "On rossiystey velitsey to Holy Church, . yuzhe Ivan Theologian form ": it interprets the vision of his wife, . exiled serpent in the wilderness (Revelation, . Chapter XII), . in the sense of persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church Catholic,
. In 1615, Mr.. Hen, together with Archimandrite Dionysios Trinity and Arseniy deaf, was put in charge to correct the books ended in 1618 condemning Mr.. All spravschikov, but at the same hen - "sly fox", the revocation of Arseny - escaped captivity. Designated Klyucharyov Cathedral of the Assumption, he became close to the government. By this time, include two of his polemical writings against the monk Anthony Podolsky, defended the addition: "and fire". In 1642, Mr.. Hen was' Statement on Luther "- a vast compilation, partly borrowed from the writings of Zechariah Kopystenskogo. In 1644, Mr.. Hen was the main figure in the theological debate, due to the engagement of the Danish prince with Woldemar princess Irina Mikhailovna ( "It Senior Priest Ivan Nemchinov Nasedkina to Matthew about the baptism of the Christian faith"). When the patriarch Joseph hen, consisting of a monk (named Joseph), was one of the principal figures of printed books, he later joined the opponents of Nikon. At the time of the patriarch Joseph's works include Clockers: "Son of the Church" or "The Legend more necessary practices on the teaching of the Orthodox Christian faith, novoprosvetivshemusya exceedingly needs" and "Spiritual Mirror", composed in 1645, Mr.. and represents a collection of instructions, mostly moral, borrowed from the works of our fathers and lay in a textbook manner. Collection of this, except a few articles, very similar in content to the book "Alpha and Omega", printed in Suprasl in 1788, Mr.. Clockers belongs more note on the life of St. Dionysius (included in "The Life of Dionysius, Moscow, 1824; here among other things, bright colors outlined the horrors of the destruction of Moscow). - See. A. Golubtsov "Debate on Faith, . caused by the affair Woldemar Prince and princess Irina Mikhailovna (Moscow, . 1891); his "Monuments of the debate about faith ..." (M., . 1892; are printed write-offs ", . "Answers" and "Speech"); Tsvetayev "Protestants and Protestantism in Russia"; Skvortsov "Dionysius Zobninovsky, . Archimandrite Trinity-Sergius Monastery (Tver, . 1890).,