“Contemporary philosophy and theology are ever more conscious of the fact that the model of relations between religion and culture developed in modernity is fundamentally flawed. The processes of the secularization of society, culture, and even religion are rooted in the dualistic vision of religion and culture introduced in the late Middle Ages. In seeking a way out, we need to explore domains of culture unaffected by Western European secular thinking.
Russian thought is remarkably well prepared to formulate an alternative to secular modernity. Indeed, in Russian culture there was neither a Renaissance nor an Enlightenment. Eastern Christianity retained an integral patristic vision of human nature that had not been divided into separate “natural” and “supernatural” elements. These pre- and non-modern visions are now gaining exceptional value in the postmodern reality in which we find ourselves. The heritage of Russian Christian thought may serve as a source of inspiration for alternative approaches to religion and culture. In this respect, Russian thought may be compared with nouvelle théologie, Radical Orthodoxy, and other recent movements in Christian postsecular thought. For this reason it remains astonishingly contemporary” (From Introduction – Apology of Culture and Culture of Apology: Russian religious Thought against Secular Reason by Editors).
Editores: Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch y Pawel Rojek
Título: Apology of Culture. Religion and Culture in Russian Thought
Publicado: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Año de publicación: 2015
Capítulos sugeridos:
López Cambronero, Marcelo. “Man as Spirit and Culture: Russian Anthropocentrism”, pp. 15-23
Mrowzcynski-Van Allen, Artur. “Georgy Fedotov´s Carmen Saeculare: A Reflection on Culture as a Judgment of Modrnity from the Philosophy and Theology of Some Nineteenth- and twentieth-Century Russian Thinkers”, pp. 43-52
Tabatadze, Olga. “The Polyphonic Conception of Culture as Conterculture in the Context of Modernity: Fr. Pavel Florenski, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Maria Yudina”, pp. 53-62
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