Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance

by Gavrilyuk, Paul L.

• ISBN13: 9780198701583
• ISBN10: 0198701586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-03-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Paul L. Gavrilyuk holds the Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy at the Theology Department of the University of St. Thomas. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, he studied physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Russia. He was one of the first scholars from the former Soviet Union to come to the United States to pursue graduate work in theology. An Eastern Orthodox historian and theologian, Gavrilyuk specializes in early Christian theology and Russian religious thought. Translated into five languages, his books include The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought, Histoire du catechumenat dans l'eglise ancienne [A History of the Catechumenate in the Early Church], and The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity, co-edited with Sarah Coakley.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. The Russian Religious Renaissance before the Revolution
2. Early Encounters with the Renaissance
3. The Fathers and Children of the Renaissance in the Dispersion
4. The Eurasian Temptation
5. Philosophy of History
6. Reevaluation of Solovyov
7. Bulgakov s Antipode
8. The Sophiological Subtext of Neopatristic Synthesis
9. How The Ways of Russian Theology Came to Be Written
10. The Patristic Norm and the Western Pseudomorphosis of Russian Theology
11. The Early Reception of The Ways of Russian Theology
12. Christian Hellenism as Philosophia Perennis
13. The Ecclesiological and Epistemological Contours of the Neopatristic Synthesis
14. The Reception of Florovsky in Orthodox Theology
15. Beyond the Polarizing Narrative