IMPROVISED LEARNING DISPUTES WITH BAPTISTS AND FIFTIESHERS AS A NEW METHOD OF STUDYING NEO- PROTESTANTISM

Evgeny Gennadievich Veselov

Church Research Center of the Kostroma Metropolitanate, Kostroma, Russia

Email: ev23@yandex.ru

ORCID: 0000–0001–5141–1879

Issue: № 3 (35), 2026

Pages: 31

DOI: 10.24412/2309-

Annotation

The article analyzes the missionary perspectives of improvised educational debates and conversations recorded for the purpose of teaching sectarian studies. To date, 16 such videos have been filmed and posted on various platforms, with an average duration of 1-1.5 hours each; 10 real debates with Baptists are also adjacent to them. Collectively, they cover the most important topics of the Orthodox polemic with neo-protestants: Holy Scripture and Tradition, salvation, the doctrine of the Church, glossolalia, priesthood, icon worship, certain sacraments (baptism, Eucharist, penance), veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary and saints, comparison of the Symbol of Faith with the faith of neo-protestants. The selection of arguments and the rather uncompromising way of discussion on both sides allows these debates to be used as an additional tool for practical polemics, as well as for independent study by Orthodox viewers and readers of the issues discussed in the debates.

Keywords

neo-Protestantism, Baptism, Pentecostalism, neo-Pentecostalism, evangelical movement, theological disputes, sectarian studies, ecclesiology

For citation

Veselov E.G., priest. Impromptu educational debates with baptists and pentecostals as a new method of studying neo-protestantism // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2026. №. 3. Р. (In Russian). https:// doi.org/10.24412/2309- 5164-2026-3-