Blessing as the Ground of Morality: Pavel Florensky and Political Resistance
This essay argues that Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), one of Russia's most creative religious philosophers, makes an important contribution to Christian social ethics by positing "blessing" as a central moral act. Drawing on Orthodox liturgical practices of blessing, Florensky redescrib...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2021
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 279-296 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDF Orthodox Church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments NCD Political ethics RC Liturgy |
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| Summary: | This essay argues that Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), one of Russia's most creative religious philosophers, makes an important contribution to Christian social ethics by positing "blessing" as a central moral act. Drawing on Orthodox liturgical practices of blessing, Florensky redescribes reality; it is filled with God's energies. Especially in letters from the gulag, after his arrest in 1933 for "counter-revolutionary" activity, Florensky calls forth the sacramental mystery of the natural world around the camps and of each person to whom he writes. In attending to them in their concrete particularity, he offers resistance to a totalitarian regime that would reduce them to raw, exploitable material. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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