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The tasks of this text are not historical, at least in the sense of describing historical facts or sources. Today in the factual history of Russian philosophy, there are no greater lacunae or enigmas. Thus the principal goal of this chapter is conceptual: it is to comprehend the phenomenon of Russian religious philosophy both in its diachrony and in synchrony. These two aspects will be considered not nacheinander, but nebeneinander that is not in succession, but in parallel to each other. I will trace the course of philosophical events trying not so much to describe factual details as to expose logics and structures of this course, concepts and ideas involved in it.
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A concise reconstruction of these origins and all the further path of Russian sophiology is presented in my work Pereput’ia russkoi sofiologii. See Horujy, 2000, 141–168.
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See B. Jakowenko. “Erklärung des Herausgegebers,” quoted by Plotnikov (1999, 337).
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A concise resumé of this criticism is given in my articles “Pereput’ia russkoi sofiologii” and “Imiaslavie i kultura Serebrianogo veka: fenomen Moskovskoi shkoly khristianskogo neoplatonizma.” See Horujy 2018, 274–292.
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As V.V. Bibikhin has pointed out: “As far as we recognize ourselves as the inheritors of Byzantine Orthodoxy, the claim to the exceptional knowledge of God made by it in its last centuries remains our problem.” See Bibikhin 2010, 354. These words about the problem of energy, the key problem of contemporary Orthodox thought, clearly allow us to include Bibikhin’s work in the context of the philosophical comprehension of Eastern Christian discourse.
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Horujy, S.S. (2021). Russian Religious Philosophy: The Nature of the Phenomenon, Its Path, and Its Afterlife. In: Bykova, M.F., Forster, M.N., Steiner, L. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62982-3_3
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