Deification in Russian religious thought : between the revolutions, 1905-1917 / Ruth Coates.
2019
BT767.8
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Title
Deification in Russian religious thought : between the revolutions, 1905-1917 / Ruth Coates.
Author
Coates, Ruth, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191873515 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
BT767.8
Dewey Decimal Classification
234.8094709041
Summary
'Deification in Russian Religious Thought' considers the reception of the Eastern Christian (Orthodox) doctrine of deification by Russian religious thinkers of the immediate pre-revolutionary period. Deification is the metaphor that the Greek patristic tradition came to privilege in its articulation of the Christian concept of salvation: to be saved is to be deified, that is, to share in the divine attribute of immortality. In the Christian narrative of the Orthodox Church 'God became human so that humans might become gods'. Ruth Coates shows that between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 Russian religious thinkers turned to deification in their search for a commensurate response to the apocalyptic dimension of the universally anticipated destruction of the Russian autocracy and the social and religious order that supported it.
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'Deification in Russian Religious Thought' considers the reception of the Eastern Christian (Orthodox) doctrine of deification by Russian religious thinkers of the immediate pre-revolutionary period. Deification is the metaphor that the Greek patristic tradition came to privilege in its articulation of the Christian concept of salvation: to be saved is to be deified, that is, to share in the divine attribute of immortality. In the Christian narrative of the Orthodox Church 'God became human so that humans might become gods'. Ruth Coates shows that between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 Russian religious thinkers turned to deification in their search for a commensurate response to the apocalyptic dimension of the universally anticipated destruction of the Russian autocracy and the social and religious order that supported it.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 13, 2019).
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198836230
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