Les voies de la théologie russe

by Georges Florovsky, J.-C. Roberti (Translator)

Ways of Russian Theology forms an integral part of the attempt to purify Russian Orthodoxy by clarifying its proper relationship to the West. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Church found itself intellectually unprepared to deal with the religious and cultural storms bursting in upon it. First came the era of open hostilities between Protestants and Catholics; later came the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Consequently, Orthodoxy absorbed, sometimes unconsciously, western scholasticism, deism, pietism, and idealism, and produced what Fr. Florovsky describes as the “pseudomorphosis” of Russia's authentic religious life derived from Byzantium. Only in the nineteenth century did Russian Orthodoxy seriously undertake to recover its Byzantine heritage and find its way “back to the Fathers,” thereby laying the foundation for Florovsky's later program of “neo-atristic synthesis”.

Genres: Philosophy, History

315 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1931

Reviews

[Airam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Biased but brilliant.

[Mikhail Belyaev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Книга, безусловно, является классикой истории Русской философии. Множество интереснейших наблюдений, систематически изложенный материал и, в то же время, живые иллюстративные истории.
Да, иногда автор "партиен". Например, он не скрывает своих симпатий нестяжателем и антипатий иосифлянам. Но когда автор - сам замечательный богослов и философ, такая "партийность" идет работе даже на пользу.