Early religious writings, 1903-1909 / Pavel Florensky ; translated by Boris Jakim.

"Perhaps the most remarkable person devoured by the Gulag" is how Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described Pavel Florensky, a Russian Orthodox mathematician, scientist, linguist, art historian, philosopher, theologian, and priest who was martyred during the Bolshevik purges of the 1930s. This volum...

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Main Author: Florenskiĭ, P. A. (Pavel Aleksandrovich), 1882-1937 (Author)
Other title:Works. Selections. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Superstition and miracle
  • The empyrean and the empirical: a dialogue
  • The goal and meaning of progress
  • The prize of the high calling: an appreciation of the character of Archimandrite Serapion Mashkin
  • Questions of religious self-knowledge
  • Dogmatism and dogmatics
  • Orthodoxy
  • The salt of the earth: the story of the life of Abba Isidore
  • Starets of the Gethsemane Skete compiled and told in order / by his unworthy spiritual son, Pavel Florensky.