Georges Florovsky and the Russian religious renaissance / Paul L Gavrilyuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gavrilyuk, Paul L.

Series:

Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Florovsky, Georges, 1893-1979.

Florovsky, Georges.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--History--20th century.

Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

Theology--Russia.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study offers a new interpretation of 20th-century Russian Orthodox theology by engaging the work of Georges Florovsky (1893-1979), especially his programme of a 'return to the Church Fathers', analysing how Florovsky's evolving interpretation of Russian religious thought, particularly Vladimir Solovyov and Sergius Bulgakov, informed his approach to patristic sources.

Contents:

Cover ; Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; A NOTE ON RHETORIC AND THE PRESENTATION OF SLAVIC NAMES; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; REVISING THE STANDARD NARRATIVE; SOPHIOLOGY: A POLEMICAL SUBTEXT OF NEOPATRISTICS; THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY OF CHRISTIAN HELLENISM; NOBODY'S MAN; AN INNOVATING TRADITIONALIST AND A TRADITIONALIST INNOVATOR; A HISTORIAN WHO CHANGED HISTORY; 1: The Russian Religious Renaissance Before the Revolution; THE RELIGIOUS TURN IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND ARTS

THE RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL MEETINGS AND SOCIETIESTHE AFTERMATH OF THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION OF 1917; CONCLUSION; 2: Early Encounters with the Renaissance; FLOROVSKY'S FAMILY BACKGROUND; CORRESPONDENCE WITH NIKOLAI GLUBOKOVSKY AND PAVEL FLORENSKY; FLOROVSKY'S ASSESSMENT OF GLUBOKOVSKY'S "ORTHODOXY IN ITS ESSENCE"; THE DISCOVERY OF VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV; FLOROVSKY'S UNIVERSITY STUDIES; CONCLUSION; 3: The "Fathers" and "Children" of the Renaissance in the Dispersion; GENERATIONAL TENSIONS; THE EXPULSION OF THE RENAISSANCE LEADERS FROM THE BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA; BUILDING UP RUSSIA ABROAD

THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AFTER THE REVOLUTIONTHE METAPHOR OF THE "WESTERN CAPTIVITY" OF RUSSIAN THEOLOGY; 4: The Eurasian Temptation; THE EURASIAN GROUP; THE THREE FIRST EURASIAN SYMPOSIA; OSWALD SPENGLER AND THE EURASIAN CRITIQUE OF THE WEST; THE VATICAN'S EXPANSIONIST POLICY; FLOROVSKY'S VERSION OF EURASIANISM; FLOROVSKY'S BREAK WITH THE EURASIANS; CONCLUSION; 5: Philosophy of History; WORK ON HERZEN; PERSONALISM; HISTORICAL A-TELEOLOGY; THE NATURE OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE; THE IMAGINATIVE PSYCHOLOGISM OF MIKHAIL GERSHENZON; HISTORICAL SINGULARISM; CRITIQUE OF ORGANICISM; CONCLUSION

6: The Re-evaluation of SolovyovEARLY POSITIVE RECEPTION OF SOLOVYOV; A CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE; CRITIQUE OF GERMAN IDEALISM; CRITIQUE OF SOLOVYOV; CONCLUSION; 7: Bulgakov's Antipode; FLOROVSKY AND BULGAKOV COMPARED; THE BROTHERHOOD OF ST SOPHIA; VASILY ZENKOVSKY ON PATRISTIC TRADITION AND THEOLOGICAL CREATIVITY; INVITATION TO TEACH AT THE ST SERGIUS INSTITUTE; CONCLUSION; 8: The Sophiological Subtext of Neopatristic Theology; THE "PARIS SCHOOL" LABEL; THE SOPHIA AFFAIR; METHODOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES; BULGAKOV'S PANENTHEISM VS FLOROVSKY'S "INTUITION OF CREATUREHOOD"

GODMANHOOD AND THE "HISTORICAL CHRIST"SOTERIOLOGY; CONCLUSION; 9: How The Ways of Russian Theology Came to Be Written; A BRIEF RECAPITULATION OF FLOROVSKY'S INTELLECTUAL EVOLUTION; THE SCHOLARLY FORERUNNERS OF THE WAYS OF RUSSIAN THEOLOGY; THE IMAGE OF THE "WAYS" IN THE TITLE; CONCLUSION; 10: The Patristic Norm and the Western Pseudomorphosis of Russian Theology; THE VARIETIES OF PATRISTIC SYNTHESIS; THE PATROLOGY VOLUMES AND THE WAYS OF RUSSIAN THEOLOGY AS A "TRILOGY"; OSWALD SPENGLER'S CONCEPT OF PSEUDOMORPHOSIS; THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN THEOLOGY AS A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS

THE APPLICABILITY OF THE BYZANTINE NORM TO RUSSIA'S INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-874537-0

0-19-100511-8

1-306-18868-7

OCLC:

868922351