There arose in seventeenth-century Russia a movement of Dissent; but if we compare it with English Dissent of the same period, we notice two great differences. First, the Old Believers - the Russian Dissenters - differed from the official Church solely in ritual, not in doctrine; and secondly, while English Dissent was radical - a protest against the official Church for not carrying reform far enough - the Russian Dissent was the protest of conservatives against an official Church which in their eyes had carried reform too far.
+Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, from The Orthodox Church, Chapter 6 History: Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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