... love Trinity Aquino Frederick virtue epistemology Nikolai Berdyaev Sergius Bulgakov Pavel Florensky Georges Florovsky Aleksei Khomiakov Vladimir Lossky Vladimir Solovyov John Zizioulas integral knowledge neopatristic theology Throughout its two-thousand-year history, Orthodox...

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...) first articulated by third century Cappadocians is brilliantly developed in the philosophical and theological work of Pavel Florensky, and its manifestation in lived spirituality is powerfully presented in the recorded talks of Elder Paisios and Elder Porphyrios, both monks of twentieth century Greece...

...), and Pavel Florensky’s The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (1914). These reveal the ‘modernist’ approach typical of the period, that is, engagement of theosis in dialogue with diverse intellectual contexts including German metaphysical idealism (Bulgakov), Symbolism and the theosophy of Jakob...

... Pavel Florensky icon reverse perspective Russian avant-garde Russian religious renaissance This chapter begins from a simple observation, namely, that what has been called ‘the Russian religious renaissance of the twentieth century’ (Zernov 1963 ) coincided in time with two important...

... considering its ontological, epistemological and ecclesiological foundations. It is common to contrast Florovsky’s neopatristic theology with the “modernist” religious philosophies of Pavel Florensky, Sergius Bulgakov, and Nicholas Berdyaev. Gavrilyuk argues that the standard narrative of twentieth-century...

...This chapter discusses four major religious thinkers and their relationship to Fedorov and Cosmism: Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, and Pavel Florensky. Each of these thinkers has often been discussed without reference to Fedorov and Cosmism, but each did have a strong...

...Chapter 9 considers the philosophy of Fr. Pavel Florensky, “the Russian Leonardo da Vinci” who presented the most impressive attempt at the reconciliation of faith and science. Florensky was skeptical about the possibility of the rational expression of the content of revelation and maintained...

... general sources from neo-Platonism and medieval mysticism to Jakob Boehme and German Idealism. It introduces the principal Sophiologists: Vladimir Soloviev, Pavel Florensky, and Sergius Bulgakov and provides an outline of their distinct articulations of Sophiology and understanding of tradition. It shows...

...This chapter describes a religious turn in philosophy, literature and culture, which occurred in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century. The contributions of the leaders of the Russian Religious Renaissance, including Nicholas Berdyaev, Sergius Bulgakov, and Pavel Florensky are discussed...

... with Nikolai Glubokovsky and Pavel Florensky. Florovsky seriously considered receiving a seminary education, but ended up pursuing his studies at the state school, Novorossiisky University. Years later, Florovsky creatively integrated Glubokovsky’s account of Christian Hellenism and Florensky’s account...

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... culture Florensky Pavel meaning of life Grossman Vasilii Shalamov Varlam suffering Russian Orthodox Church Avvakum concentration camps F. M. Dostoevsky Pavel Florensky Gulag Karsavin Katorga ‘If you look back, all of our history, both Soviet and post-Soviet, is a huge common grave...

... that notion of refuting emerges, by the paradoxical logic of effacement, in the analysis of the political in the Talmud. The argument advances in conversation with Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, and Pavel Florensky. Children of Israel Children of Jacob Jews political theology being genocide...

... and not just those which were mentioned by Pavel Florensky: Triadology, Christology, Pneumatology, soteriology, Mariology, ecclesiology, Eucharistic doctrine, theology of Creation, Eschatology, 14 ethics, and mysticism. Moreover, the political interpretation of the Sophia icon is also frequent, primarily...

... gures, Vladimir Soloviev (1853 1900), Fr Pavel Florensky (1882 1937), and Fr Sergius Bulgakov (1871 1944). Modern Russian Sophiology as articulated by these three thinkers which I shall commonly abbreviate as Sophiology with a capital S is the most serious and sustained example of re ection...

... by the four leaders of the Russian religious renaissance: Fr. Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), Fr. Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944), Nicholas Berdyaev (1874–1948), and Lev Karsavin (1882–1952). The final sections treat the émigré theologians of the younger generation, who were aligned with the neopatristic trend...

...This chapter discusses four themes in the religious philosophy of Pavel Florensky (1882–1937): Georg Cantor’s mathematics, truth, philosophy of language, and the visual arts. Apart from Church doctrines, the key ideas that emerge in his work are ‘antinomy’, ‘discontinuity’, ‘actual infinity...

...The chapter argues that the twentieth-century neopatristic theologies were not purely historical exercises, but theologically motivated enterprises. More specifically, Georges Florovsky’s ‘neopatristic synthesis’ was a response to his ‘modernist’ predecessors, such as Pavel Florensky and Sergius...