Theological Reflection in Eighteenth-Century Russia

This book examines the wide panorama of Russian theological reflection found in a variety of sources, including ecclesiastical books, sermons, literature, poetry, theater, historical treatises, scholarly works, and free translations of theology books.

List of contents

Introduction: Imperial Religious Policies and Imperial Spirituality
Part I: Ecclesiastical Theology
Chapter 1: Stefan Iavorskii
Chapter 2: Feofan Prokopovich
Chapter 3: Grigorii Konisskii
Chapter 4: Tikhon Zadonskii
Chapter 5: Metropolitan Platon
Chapter 6: Ivan Kandorskii
Chapter 7: Biblical Commentaries
Chapter 8: Preaching
Chapter 9: Old Believers vs. Orthodoxy
Part II: Theological Reflection of Non-Ecclesiastics
Chapter 10: Two Books and Physico-Theology
Chapter 11: God and His Attributes
Chapter 12: The Soul and Proofs its Immortality
Chapter 13: Memento Mori
Chapter 14: God in History
Chapter 15: Masons, the Universalist Wing
Chapter 16: Masons, the Revivalist Wing
Conclusion: Theological Balance of the Age

About the author

Adam Drozdek is associate professor at Duquesne University.

Summary

This book examines the wide panorama of Russian theological reflection found in a variety of sources, including ecclesiastical books, sermons, literature, poetry, theater, historical treatises, scholarly works, and free translations of theology books.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Drozdek, Drozdek Adam
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793641830
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-183-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Russia, RELIGION / Theology, Theology, Literature: history & criticism, History of specific lands, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet