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The Idea of Sophia in the Priest Pavel Florensky's Works
DOI of the paper: 10.15382/sturI201560.24-38
Abstract
The questions of Priest Pavel Florensky’s Sophiology was repeatedly raised in the literature. But this problem is unsufficiently lighted. Florensky’s views on Sophia has received little attention compared to Solovjov’s Sophiology and Bulgakov’s Sophiology. The doctrine of Sophia Wisdom of God is most fully presented in the last Chapter of the Florensky’s work “The Pillar and Ground of the Truth”. But Sofia only mentioned in his later works. The article posed the question about the value of ideas Sofi a for the development of religious and philosophical creativity by Florensky. The author makes a comparative analysis the concept of Sophia by Florensky, Solovjov and Bulgakov in his earlier and later works. On the basis of the conducted research the author assumes that the idea Sophia was not for Florensky fundamental and self-worth. He used this idea to avoid the temptations of pantheism that arise in the philosophy of pan-unity. Florensky was trying to eliminate these temptations when connecting this philosophy with the Christian worldview.
Keywords
Florensky, Soloviev, Bulgakov, Sophia, sophiology, pan-unity, divine essence, divine energy, love, symbol, phenomenon.
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