Russian hesychasm

Russian hesychasm PDF Author: George A. Maloney
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111396797
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Russian hesychasm

Russian hesychasm PDF Author: George A. Maloney
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111396797
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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No detailed description available for "Russian hesychasm".

Hesychasm and Art

Hesychasm and Art PDF Author: Anita Strezova
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1925021858
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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“Although many of the iconographic traditions in Byzantine art formed in the early centuries of Christianity, they were not petrified within a time warp. Subtle changes and refinements in Byzantine theology did find reflection in changes to the iconographic and stylistic conventions of Byzantine art. This is a brilliant and innovative book in which Dr Anita Strezova argues that a religious movement called Hesychasm, especially as espoused by the great Athonite monk St Gregory Palamas, had a profound impact on the iconography and style of Byzantine art, including that of the Slav diaspora, of the late Byzantine period. While many have been attracted to speculate on such a connection, none until now has embarked on proving such a nexus. The main stumbling blocks have included the need for a comprehensive knowledge of Byzantine theology; a training in art history, especially iconological, semiotic and formalist methodologies; extensive fieldwork in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey and Russia, and a working knowledge of Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Latin as well as several modern European languages, French, German, Russian and Italian. These are some of the skills which Dr Strezova has brought to her topic.” Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA Adjunct Professor of Art History School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics The Australian National University

Merton & Hesychasm

Merton & Hesychasm PDF Author: Bernadette Dieker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887752459
Category : Hesychasm
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This profound work introduces the West to Eastern Christian spirituality through the lens of Thomas Merton, as practiced from the time of the Desert Fathers. Contributors to this volume present the riches of Christian contemplative methods and experience dating back to their original Christian source.

Deification in Russian Religious Thought

Deification in Russian Religious Thought PDF Author: Ruth Coates
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019257325X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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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.

Russian Identities

Russian Identities PDF Author: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This book investigates the question of Russian identity, looking at changes and continues over a huge territory, many centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. Its main emphases are on the struggle against the steppe peoples, Orthodox Christianity, autocratic monarchy, and Westernization.

The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought

The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought PDF Author: Daniel P. Payne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739147207
Category : Christianity and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought focuses on the retrieval of the spiritual theology of the Orthodox Church and how it is being used in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to develop a political ideology that allows for the creation of a unique Eastern Orthodox identity, which is against western globalization. The author approaches the phenomenon from the standpoint of constructivism as understood in the social science tradition of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The author argues in the text that the construction of this unique Orthodox identity, especially by the Greek theologians John S. Romanides and Christos Yannaras, is similar to what is occurring in other religious traditions around the world. Additionally, the author examines the retrieval of the hesychastic tradition of the Orthodox Church using a genealogical approach. Here the thought of the Russian emigration, especially the thought of Georges Florovsky, is of primary importance. The text concludes with an appraisal of this revival in the Orthodox world and its ecumenical possibilities for a pluralistic world.

Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia

Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia PDF Author: Philip Boobbyer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317571223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Embracing the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia, this book provides a useful perspective of Putin’s Russia. Focusing on the ethics in Soviet Russia, it explores the history of moral thinking amongst dissidents, and examines the ethical assumptions of the perestroika era.

History of Russian Literature

History of Russian Literature PDF Author: Dmitrij Ciževskij
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110871017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality

St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality PDF Author: John Meyendorff
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN: 9780913836118
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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"This richly documented and lavishly illustrated study of Orthodox spirituality traces the development of "Orthodox mysticism" from the desert fathers through the patristic tradition to Byzantine hesychasm and its heritage in Russian monasticism. It shows how the work of Palamas transcends the limits of one school of spirituality and renews in its deepest essence the life of the Christian Mystery."--Jacket.

The Word Made Self

The Word Made Self PDF Author: Thomas Seifrid
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801443169
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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When Osip Mandelstam wrote that the Russian word was "sentient and breathing flesh," he voiced one of the most powerful themes in his culture. In The Word Made Self, Thomas Seifrid explores this Russian fascination with the power of the word as expressed in the work of philosophers, theologians, and artists of the Silver Age and early Soviet period. He shows that their diverse works (poems, novels, philosophical and religious tracts) share an attempt to articulate "a model of selfhood within the phenomenon of language." The thinkers included in this book--among them Pavel Florenskii, Roman Jakobson, Aleksei Losev, and Gustav Shpet--frequently responded to the work of contemporary European philosophers even as they drew upon and revitalized powerful elements of early Russian religious thought. On Seifrid's view, this highly original body of writing about language was the essential context for the development of Russian Futurism, Formalism, and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Soviet structuralists--movements and ideas whose influence has extended far beyond Russia and long past their years of efflorescence. This book will have a lasting impact among readers who will be fascinated to discover the richness of this long-suppressed chapter in the history of Russian culture.