Georgij Florovskij, historien de la culture religieuse russe

In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 561-565

Abstract

Marc Raeff, Georgii Florovskii historian of Russian religious culture.
Priest, philosopher and historian Father Georgii Florovskii completed his studies in emigration. The experiences of revolution and civil war, as well as the impact of Western thinkers and of a Christian, personalist philosophical anthropology, laid the foundation for his rejection of historical determinism and of all utopianism in social and philosophical speculation. His major historical work, Puti russkogo bogosloviia, rooted in this philosophy and using a contextualist approach, marks a watershed in Russian intellectual history and its historiography. The paper briefly points out the major concepts and contributions of the seminal book.