EXISTENTIAL MEANINGS IN THE WORKS OF ARCHBISHOP LUKE (VOYNO-YASENETSKY)

Author(s):  T.I. Lipich, Dr., Prof., Belgorod State National Research University , Belgorod, Russia, lipich@bsu.edu.ru

A.S. Litvinenko, Belgorod National Research University, Belgorod , Russia, alex@litvinen.com

Issue:  Volume 44, № 2

Rubric:  Thesis

Annotation:  The article considers the interest in the person of the Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea Luka (Voyno-Yasenetsky) and attempts are made to understand the reason for popularizing him not only as a person glorified after his death in the rank of saints of the Russian Orthodox Church, but also as a scientist who has enriched science, which is confirmed by awarding him the highest state USSR awards. A brief description of the creative heritage is given, as well as a list of thinkers who are quoted in his main philosophical, anthropological and apologetic work. The authors find a whole layer of existential meanings reflected in the creative heritage of Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky), who as a talented scientist, thinker and theologian in his later works dealt with the essential issues of human existence. A number of these questions are constructed in the following order: human freedom, the ability of the subject to believe in God and the relationship between faith and knowledge. It is concluded that the thinker in his works not only raised these questions, but the answers to them have not lost relevance in the present.

Keywords:  V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky, existentialism, freedom, knowledge, faith, existential choice, worldview, autobiography

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