The old and the new : churching a secular age from Solovyóv to Bulgakov / Michael Lee Miller, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Michael Lee (Michael Henry Lee), author.

Series:

Series in philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian philosophy.

Antinomy.

Christian philosophers--Russia.

Christian philosophers.

Bulgakov, Sergiĭ, 1871-1944.

Bulgakov, Sergiĭ.

Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich, 1853-1900--Influence.

Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich.

Physical Description:

xii, 432 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware, United States ; Malaga, Spain : Vernon Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In the midst of exile from his native Russia in the mid-1930s, Fr Sergii Bulgakov identified his basic aspiration as an Orthodox theologian to be a 'positive overcoming of Modernity'--in fact, a continuation of the efforts of his great 19th-century inspiration, Vladimir Solovyóv, to reconstruct Christian thought and culture in the face of the unprecedented challenges posed by the Enlightenment and the era of revolutionary upheaval. But Bulgakov's theological vision also involves a distinctive revision of Solovyóv's programme, whose 'residual Hegelianism' continually threatens to level out speculative reason and mystagogical faith, progress in history and 'the Kingdom not of this world'. Bulgakov refuses any such levelling: instead, he consummates the 'apocalyptic turn' Solovyóv had already commenced in the years immediately preceding his premature death in 1900. The resulting preference for the paradox of 'antinomy' over the closure of 'dialectic' comes to light in relation to four themes running through Bulgakov's thinking in the decades falling between his rejection of Marxism and the commencement of his mature systematic-theological work in the 1930s: history, work, knowledge, and power."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Part I, History: Modernity between the Man-God and the God-Man ; The prophetic-theurgic paradigm ;- Progress and the noumenon of history

Part II, Knowledge: 'Theosophy' ; Method and technics

Part III, Work: 'Theurgy' ; Freedom in oikonomia ; Beauty will not save the world

Part IV, Power: 'Theocracy' ; The erotica of power ; Right, law and cult ; Conclusion

Appendix: Eros and gender.

Notes:

"Works consulted": pages 415-426.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781622738557

1622738551

9798881902674

OCLC:

1504262665

Publisher Number:

90103240618