This article examines one of the least studied aspects of the theological and philosophical thought of St. Gregory Palamas, viz. his doctrine of the Divine selfcontemplation. This teaching has previously been mentioned only briefl y and shortly by the following scholars: protopresbyter John Romanides, Reinhard Flogaus, Father Dr. Porphyrios (Fadi) Georgi, Mikhail Yuryevich Reutin. However, the...
This article suggests a new point of view on Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov’s sophiology. The concept of Sophia has often been described as an artificial element in Bulgakov’s views, its emergence has been explained by different “influences”, e.g. of Vladimir Solovyov, Gnosticism, rationalist philosophy etc. This article, on the contrary, argues that the concept of Sophia was Bulgakov’s solution to...
The article «Anima» is the most important Ivanov’s work during the period of emigration, representing his religious and mystical views to the European reader. It presents a kind of symbolic and phenomenological description of the dynamic structure of religious and mystical consciousness. In our article, we have three goals: 1) to establish a conceptual relationship between the early (article...
The article examines the point of Soviet art's 1920-1930 influence on secular processes in society. The model of the psychology of art proposed by L. Vygotsky, based on Marxist dogmatics, becomes the starting point for the search of creative elite, particularly, for the film director and art theorist Sergei Eisenstein. They are brought together by a common understanding of art as a sign system...