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God, Man and the Church
Vladimir Solovyev
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Description for God, Man and the Church
Paperback. A classic work of ecclesiastical theology by one of the pre-eminent Russian theologians of the late 19th-century. Translator(s): Attwater, Donald. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB1; HRCM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. .
God, Man and the Church is a penetrating examination of the human relationship - both as an individual and in society - with God. For Solovyev, personal religion can only be satisfied in social religion. Private prayer finds its fulfilment in the Church's liturgy, and the Church is the highest expression of humanity's religious aspirations. Here Solovyev's mystical understanding of the Church provides the basis for a fundamental analysis of the idea of the state from a Christian viewpoint. During the years after its first publication in Russian in 1885, God, Man and the Church rapidly established a reputation as ... Read more
God, Man and the Church is a penetrating examination of the human relationship - both as an individual and in society - with God. For Solovyev, personal religion can only be satisfied in social religion. Private prayer finds its fulfilment in the Church's liturgy, and the Church is the highest expression of humanity's religious aspirations. Here Solovyev's mystical understanding of the Church provides the basis for a fundamental analysis of the idea of the state from a Christian viewpoint. During the years after its first publication in Russian in 1885, God, Man and the Church rapidly established a reputation as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780227176283
SKU
V9780227176283
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About Vladimir Solovyev
Vladimir Solovyev was born in 1853, the son of the historian Sergius Mikhailovich Solovyev. He became a junior professor at the University of Moscow at the age of twenty-one, where he remained until his lectures gave the authorities the excuse they needed to dismiss a man whose Western sympathies had made him unpopular. He spent the rest of his life ... Read more
Reviews for God, Man and the Church
"[...] Solovyev disentangled essential Orthodoxy from Slavophilism and developed a critique of the social order of the age of Alexander III, basing his arguments on the Bible and tradition. He thus offers an alternative both to Tsarist reaction and to socialist revolution ... we can be grateful that it is available again in this reprint of Donald Attwater's English translation ... Read more