Apologyof CULTURE

199 West 8th Avenue, Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401 PICKWICK Publications Tel. (541) 344-1528 • Fax (541) 344-1506 An imprint of WIPF and STOCK Publishers Visit our Web site at www.wipfandstock.com 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. e 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. ese pre- and non-modern visions are now gaining exceptional value in the postmodern reality in which we find ourselves. e 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. APOLOGY of CULTURE Religion and Culture in Russian ought edited by Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch, & Paweł Rojek “Apology of Culture is a timely volume addressing the unity of theology and culture in the conditions of extreme secularization of all forms of life. e appeal to the Russian religious philosophical thought provides a fresh look at the place of humanity in the world where diminution of communities and alienating tendencies of technology become threatening factors of its stability. e volume complements sources on ‘Radical Orthodoxy’ by advancing the scope of modern critique of secularism, atheism, and nihilism.” ALEXEI NESTERUK, Senior Research Lecturer, University of Portsmouth, UK “Faced with the twin threat of moral relativism and secular nihilism, much of Christianity has become far too defensive and pietistic. To restore and renew Christendom, we need to re-enchant religious transcendence and recover the archaic western wisdom in a more culturally mediated and dispersed idiom. A more imaginatively ‘incultured’ faith can unite the patristic fusion of biblical revelation with Greco-Roman philosophy to the Romantic blending of high with popular and folk culture. ese extraordinarily rich essays highlight the crucial contribution of Russian religious thought to such an orthodox yet generous Christian revival, in particular the integral unity of the person, the city and the cosmos; . mystical metaphysics combined with cosmic contemplation binds together nature with the supernatural and culture with faith.” ADRIAN PABST, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent, UK Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen is Professor at the International Center for the Study of the Christian Orient and Instituto de Filosofía “Edith Stein,” Granada, Spain. He is the author of Between the Icon and the Idol (Cascade, 2013). Teresa Obolevitch is Professor at the Pontical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. Recently she published in French La philosophie religieuse russe (2014). Paweł Rojek is Assistant Lecturer at the Pontical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. ISBN: 978-1-4982-0398-2 / $28 / 252 pp. / paper Media, Examination, and Review Copies: Orders: Contact your favorite bookseller or order directly Contact: James Stock from the publisher via phone (541) 344-1528, (541) 344-1528, ext 103 or [email protected] fax (541) 344-1506 or e-mail us at [email protected] Apology of Culture Religion and Culture in Russian Thought Edited by Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch, and Paweł Rojek APOLOGY OF CULTURE Religion and Culture in Russian Thought Copyright © 2015 Wipf and Stock Publishers. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401. Pickwick Publications An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3 Eugene, OR 97401 www.wipfandstock.com ISBN 13: 978–1-4982–0398-2 Cataloging-in-Publication data: Apology of culture : religion and culture in Russian thought / edited by Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch, and Paweł Rojek. x + 242 p. ; 23 cm. —Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 13: 978–1-4982–0398-2 1. Religion and civil society—Russia—History. 2. Christianity and culture—Rus- sia—History. I. Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Artur. II. Obolevitch, Teresa. III. Rojek, Paweł. IV. Title. BR932 .A67 2015 Manufactured in the U.S.A. 02/17/2015 Contents Contributors | ix Introduction—Apology of Culture and Culture of Apology: Russian Reli- gious Thought against Secular Reason | 1 —Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch, and Paweł Rojek Part I: Russian Thought and Secular Reason 1 Man as Spirit and Culture: Russian Anthropocentrism | 15 —Marcelo López Cambronero 2 The Trinity in History and Society: The Russian Idea, Polish Messian- ism, and the Post-Secular Reason | 24 —Paweł Rojek 3 Georgy Fedotov’s Carmen Saeculare: A Reflection on Culture as a Judgment of Modernity from the Philosophy and Theology of Some Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russian Thinkers | 43 —Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen 4 The Polyphonic Conception of Culture as Counterculture in the Context of Modernity: Fr. Pavel Florensky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Maria Yudina | 53 —Olga Tabatadze 5 Pavel Florensky on Christ as the Basis of Orthodox Culture and Chris- tian Unity | 63 —Nikolai Pavluchenkov 6 The Problem of Christian Culture in the Philosophy of Vasily Zenkovsky | 72 —Oleg Ermishin 7 Overcoming the Gap between Religion and Culture: The Life and Works of Mother Maria (Skobtsova) | 79 —Natalia Likvintseva 8 Apology of Culture in The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann | 87 —Svetlana Panich Part II: Historical Focuses 9 Catholicity as an Ideal Foundation of Social Life: Gregory Skovoroda and His Concept of the High Republic | 99 —Victor Chernyshov 10 Religiosity and Pseudo-Religiosity in Russia’s Nineteenth Century Liberation Movement Preceding Bolshevik Quasi-Religiosity | 110 —Katharina Anna Breckner 11 Tolstoy and Conrad’s Visions of Christianity | 119 —Brygida Pudełko 12 Nikolai Fedorov and Godmanhood | 129 —Cezar Jędrysko 13 Catastrophism as a Manifestation of the Crisis of Consciousness in Russian and Polish Cultures | 138 —Natalia Koltakova 14 Nikolai Berdyaev and the Transformations of the Idea of Humanism | 146 —Ovanes Akopyan 15 Between Idol and Icon: A Critical Appraisal of the Mystery Project of Culture by Vyacheslav Ivanov in the Context of the Thought of Jean- Luc Marion | 153 —Marta Lechowska 16 Ivan Il’in on the Foundations of Christian Culture | 162 —Yury Lisitsa vi 17 Religious Realism and Historical Challenges: Vasily Zenkovsky and Russian Youth Abroad | 172 —Natalia Danilkina 18 Russian Religious Thought in the Middle of the Twentieth Century: Discursive Strategies in the Philosophical Diaries of Yakov Druskin and Alexander Schmemann | 180 —Maria Kostromitskaya 19 The Symphonic Unity of Traditions: Sergey Horujy’s Synergetic An- thropology and the Interpretation of History | 187 —Roman Turowski Part III: Religion, Politics, and Ecumenism 20 The Roman Question in the History of Russian Culture in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | 199 —Fr. Yury Orekhanov 21 The Rotten West and the Holy Rus: Ethical Aspects of the Anti-Occi- dentalism of the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church | 208 —Fr. Marcin Składanowski 208 22 The Universalism of Catholicity (Sobornost’): Metaphysical and Exis- tential Foundations for Interdenominational Dialogue in the Philoso- phy of Semen Frank | 218 —Gennadi Aliaiev 23 Local Civilizations and the Russian World: Nikolai Danilevsky and the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate | 227 —Olga Shimanskaya 24 The Idea of the Antichrist in Russia: From Religious to Political Narration | 235 —Magda Dolińska-Rydzek vii Contributors Ovanes Akopyan, Doctoral Student at the University of Warwick, England. Gennadi Aliaiev, Professor at the Poltava National Technical Yuriy Kon- dratyuk University, Poltava, Ukraine. Katharina Anna Breckner, Independent scholar, Hamburg, Germany. Marcelo López Cambronero, Professor at the Institute of Philosophy “Edith Stein,” Granada, Spain. Victor Chernyshov, Professor at the Poltava National Technical Yuriy Kon- dratyuk University, Poltava, Ukraine. Natalia Danilkina, Assistant Lecturer at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia. Magda Dolińska-Rydzek, Doctoral Student at the Justus-Liebig-Univer- sität, Giessen, Germany. Oleg Ermishin, Research Fellow at the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Memorial House of the Russian Abroad, Moscow, Russia. Cezar Jędrysko, Doctoral Student at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Natalia Koltakova, Assistant Lecturer at the Interregional Academy of Per- sonnel Management, Donetsk, Ukraine. Maria Kostromitskaya, Doctoral Student at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. Marta Lechowska, Assistant Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University, Kra- kow, Poland. Natalia Likvintseva, Research

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