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Deification in Russian Religious Thought - Between the Revolutions, 1905-1917 (Hardcover)
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Deification in Russian Religious Thought - Between the Revolutions, 1905-1917 (Hardcover)
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Deification in Russian Religious Thought considers the reception of
the Eastern Christian (Orthodox) doctrine of deification by Russian
religious thinkers of the immediate pre-revolutionary period.
Deification is the metaphor that the Greek patristic tradition came
to privilege in its articulation of the Christian concept of
salvation: to be saved is to be deified, that is, to share in the
divine attribute of immortality. In the Christian narrative of the
Orthodox Church 'God became human so that humans might become
gods'. Ruth Coates shows that between the revolutions of 1905 and
1917 Russian religious thinkers turned to deification in their
search for a commensurate response to the apocalyptic dimension of
the universally anticipated destruction of the Russian autocracy
and the social and religious order that supported it. Focusing on
major works by four prominent thinkers of the Russian Religious
Renaissance-Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Nikolai Berdiaev, Sergei Bulgakov,
and Pavel Florensky-Coates demonstrates the salience of the
deification theme and explores the variety of forms of its
expression. She argues that the reception of deification in this
period is shaped by the discourse of early Russian cultural
modernism, and informed not only by theology, but also by
nineteenth-century currents in Russian religious culture and German
philosophy, particularly as these are received by the novelist
Fedor Dostoevsky and the philosopher Vladimir Soloviev. In the
works that are analysed, deification is taken out of its original
theological context and applied respectively to politics,
creativity, economics, and asceticism. At the same time, all the
thinkers represented in the book view deification as a project: a
practice that should deliver the total transformation and
immortalisation of human beings, society, culture, and the material
universe, and this is what connects them to deification's
theological source.
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