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Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology) - Softcover

Book 1 of 10: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology

Gavrilyuk, Paul L.

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9780198745372: Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)

Synopsis

This study offers a new interpretation of twentieth-century Russian Orthodox theology by engaging the work of Georges Florovsky (1893-1979), especially his program of a 'return to the Church Fathers'.

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About the Author

Paul L. Gavrilyuk holds the Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy at the Theology Department of the University of St. Thomas. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, he studied physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Russia. He was one of the first scholars from the former Soviet Union to come to the United States to pursue graduate work in theology. An Eastern Orthodox historian and theologian, Gavrilyuk specializes in early Christian theology and Russian religious thought. Translated into five languages, his books include The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought, Histoire du catechumenat dans l'eglise ancienne [A History of the Catechumenate in the Early Church], and The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity, co-edited with Sarah Coakley.

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