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Born in 1882, Fr Pavel Florensky was a brilliant philosopher, theologian, scientist, and art historian who, in 1911, became an Orthodox priest. By the time of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, Fr Pavel had become a leading voice in Russia's great movement in religious philosophy, a movement whose roots lay in the rich ground of nineteenth-century Russian monasticism and whose branches included the work of Bulgakov, Berdiaev, and Solovyev. In the 1920s and 1930s the Soviets violently destroyed this splendor of Russian religious thought. In 1922, Fr Pavel was silenced, and, after a decade of forced scientific work for the regime, he was arrested on false charges, tried, imprisoned, and, in 1937, murdered by KGB directive. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn honored Fr Pavel in The Gulag Archipelago. Iconostasis is Fr Pavel's final theological work. Composed in 1922, it explores in highly original terms the significance of the icon: its philosophic depth, its spiritual history, its empirical technique. In doing so, Fr Pavel also sketched a new history of both Western religious art and the Orthodox icon: a history under the direct operation of the Holy Spirit. The work is original, challenging and profoundly articulate. This translation is the first complete English version.
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Donald Sheehan, Ph.D., teaches English and Classics at Dartmouth College. He is a subdeacon at Holy Resurrection Orthodox church in Claremont, New Hampshire. - Olga Andrejev was educated in St Petersburg and holds a graduate degree in mathematics. She is married to the iconographer Vladislav Andrejev and lives in upstate New York.
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Book Description Paper Back. Condition: New. Pavel Florensky is concerned with boundaries-- between dreaming and waking, visible and invisible, heaven and earth. He sees in the iconostasis the perfect image of the boundary. Superficially it divides, in the Orthodox temple, the nave from the sanctuary; but its true function is to be the place where visible and invisible, heaven and earth are united. Florensky's own life represented the obliteration of boundaries: a brilliant young man raised in an agnostic home who converted to Orthodoxy; a mathematician and physicist who integrated into his vocation his growing understanding of philosophy and theology; a young theological student with ascetical, monastic yearnings who ultimately felt called to the married life; a priest whose brilliance compelled the newly empowered Bolsheviks to allow him to continue to teach mathematics though he refused to cease wearing his priestly cassock; and finally, an inhabitant of the Gulag who sacrificed outward righteousness by signing a false confession to save the life of another man. Iconostasis is Florensky's last book, a strange, singular, difficult work, which represents his apprehension of truth in realms normally considered disparate or even contradictory. It moves ceaselessly, as did Florensky himself, from one world to another, from concrete concerns of artistic technique to the seemingly arcane heights of Platonic metaphysics and Trinitarian theology. Seller Inventory # 5509
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