IDEAS OF V.S. SOLOV'EV IN GERMAN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT OF THE FIRST HALF OF XX CENTURY

Author(s):  A.S. Zilber, Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University, Kaliningrad, Russia, azilber@kantiana.ru

Issue:  Volume 44, № 1

Rubric:  Thesis

Annotation:  The object is catholic and protestant reception of Solov’ev's philosophy in Germany in 20-th century from mid-twenties to early fifties, examining monographs and articles of philosophers and theologians. They deal with questions of religious philosophy: Church politics, philosophical and personal attitude of Solov’ev to Catholicism and Protestantism, the ratio of Solov’ev 's ideas with the Orthodox messianism, the correlation of reason and faith in his teachings about Christ and in the philosophy of history (accusations of Gnosticism). These themes continue in works of modern Russian researchers. Historical context is important: the image of Orthodox Russia in Western Europe and hope for the religious policy of the new authorities, especially the period of National Socialism and the situation after the Second World War. The Protestants (F. Lieb) saw in Solov’ev predecessor of "dialectical theology", critically looked at the rationalization of Revelation and welcomed the "Three conversations". The Catholics saw in the ideas of Solov’ev example of harmonic motion of an Orthodox Christian toward Rome, and in his apocalyptic – just a consequence of his "fatigue from fighting" for Christianity.

Keywords:  V.S. Solov’ev, philocatholicism, ecumenism, W. Szylkarski, F. Muckermann, K. Pfleger, B. Schultze, F. Lieb, Orthodox messianism, teosophy

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