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Author Gavrilyuk, Paul L

Title Georges Florovsky and the Russian religious renaissance / Paul L Gavrilyuk
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages)
Series Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology
Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-290) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 2, 2014)
Subject Florovsky, Georges, 1893-1979.
SUBJECT Florovsky, Georges, 1893-1979 fast
Subject Theology -- Russia
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Theology
Russia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191005114
0191005118