Theophylaktos (Feoplakt), Gorskiy

THEOPHYLAKTOS (FEOPLAKT), GORSKIY. - Russian Protestantizing theologian of the eighteenth century. His date of birth is unknown. He died on September 12, 1788. In 1769 he was rector of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow, in 1776 bishop of Pereslavl and in 1788 (?) of Kolomna.

T. is the author of a dogmatic-moral work in 2 vols., very well known in Russian seminaries until 1836: I, Orthodoxae orientalis Ecclesiae dogmata seu doctrina christiana de credendis, usibus eorum qui studio theologico esse consacrarunt addixeruntque adornata accomodatoque, St. Petersburg 1783, 1818, 1827; II, Orthodoxae orientalis Ecclesiae doctrina de agendis, Leipzig 1784, Moscow 1831. He also wrote a compendium: Dogmata christiana orthodoxae fidei theologica proposita atque explicata, Moscow 1773 (in Russian, German, and Latin), St. Petersburg 1792 (in Russian and French). He depends entirely on Theophanes Prokopovich and on the Lutheran Budde; he accepts the fundamental Protestant principles on the private interpretation of the Bible, on Sacred Scripture as the sole norm of faith, he excludes the "deuterocanonical" books from the canon, etc.

Bernardo Schultze