Description: Deification in Russian Religious Thought : Between the Revolutions, 1, Hardcover by Coates, Ruth, ISBN 0198836236, ISBN-13 9780198836230, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 th 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 deifications theological source.
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Book Title: Deification in Russian Religious Thought : Between the Revolution
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Deification in Russian Religious Thought : between the Revolutions, 1905-1917
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Christian Theology / Systematic, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Author: Ruth Coates
Subject Area: Religion, History
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Hardcover
