Title: Georges Florovsky and the Russian religious renaissance /
Authors: Gavrilyuk, Paul L.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Florovsky, Georges,; Florovskij, Georgij Vasilʹevič; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ Doctrines.; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ History; Theology Russia.; Orthodoxe Theologie.; Theology Russia (Federation) History
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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. The re-evaluation of Solovyov -- 7. Bulgakov's antipode -- 8. The sophiological subtext of neopatristic theology -- 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. Ecclesiological and epistemological contours of neopatristic theology -- 14. The reception of Florovsky in Orthodox theology -- 15. Beyond the polarizing narrative.