ISBN10: 0198836236, ISBN13: 9780198836230, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 232 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0198836236, ISBN13: 9780198836230, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 theOrthodox 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 acommensurate 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 thereception 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 cultureand German philosophy, ...
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ISBN10: 0198836236, ISBN13: 9780198836230, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 0.93
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0198836236, ISBN13: 9780198836230, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]
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