Faith and science in Russian religious thought / Teresa Obolevitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obolevitch, Teresa, 1974- author.

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

History.

Religion and science.

Russia (Federation).

Russia.

Religion and science--Russia.

Science--Russia--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 220 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 Religious Thought in Medieval Rus p. 7

1.1 Patristic Influences p. 7

1.2 A Meeting of Faith and Reason p. 11

2 The Age of Enlightenment in Russia p. 14

2.1 Scientific Perspectives p. 14

2.2 Theological Perspectives p. 20

3 Russian Academic Philosophy p. 26

3.1 Philosophical Education p. 26

3.2 Scientific and Natural Apologetics at the Theological Academies p. 34

4 Peter Chaadaev: Fides and Ratio p. 41

4.1 The Concept of Reason p. 41

4.2 The Discourse on Science and Theology p. 43

5 The Slavophile Contribution p. 47

5.1 A Critique of Western Solutions p. 47

5.2 A Postulate of Integral Life p. 53

6 Faith and Science in Russian Literature p. 59

6.1 Fedor Dostoevsky: Between Love of Christ and Love of Science p. 59

6.2 Lev Tolstoy: Reason without Science p. 67

7 Vladimir Soloviev: The First Philosophical System in Russia p. 73

7.1 The Metaphysical Foundation of the Relationship between Science and Religion p. 73

7.2 The Project of Integral Knowledge p. 77

7.3 An Interpretation of the Theory of Evolution p. 80

8 Nikolai Lossky: Rationalization of the Truths of Faith p. 86

8.1 Physics and Metaphysics p. 86

8.2 Evolution as a Way into the Kingdom of God p. 93

9 Fr. Pavel Florensky: "The Russian Leonardo da Vinci" p. 98

9.1 Antinomianism as a Fundamental Quality of Christian Thought p. 98

9.2 A Concordistic Approach p. 103

10 Semen Frank The Quest for Religion p. 109

10.1 The Struggle with Materialism p. 109

10.2 Docta Ignorantia and its Significance for Science p. 113

11 Russian Existential Philosophy p. 119

11.1 Nikolai Berdyaev: Mystery and Freedom p. 119

11.2 Lev Shestov: The Limitation of Reason p. 126

12 Philosophy from the Perspective of Language p. 134

12.1 Sergius Bulgakov: Apophaticism and Sophiology p. 135

12.2 Alexei Losev: Onomatodoxy versus Science p. 139

13 The Project of Russian Cosmism p. 145

13.1 Nikolai Fedorov: The Philosophy of the Common Task p. 146

13.2 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: The Concept of Panpsychism p. 149

13.3 Vladimir Vernadsky: The Teaching on the Noosphere p. 152

14 Neopatristic Synthesis and Science p. 156

14.1 George Florovsky: "Return to the Fathers" p. 156

14.2 Contemporary Proposals of the Neopatristic Synthesis p. 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Obolevitch, Teresa, 1974- Faith and science in Russian religious thought.

ISBN:

0198838174

9780198838173

OCLC:

1066128234