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Catholicism and the Eastern Church in Russian Religious and Philosophical Thought

Catholicism and the Eastern Church in Russian Religious and Philosophical Thought ANDRZEJ WALICKI (Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A.) CATHOLICISM AND THE EASTERN CHURCH IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT The Westernization of Russia is usually associated with the secular- ization of Russian culture and with the emergence and development of a Westernized and laicized enlightened stratum. It is often forgotten in this connection that Westernization also covered the Russian Church. Contrary to the opinion, to the spreading of which the Russian Slavophiles have greatly contributed, the Church was not in the least an unshakable bulwark of the Old-Russian Orthodox tradition, saved by some miracle from the de- structive pressure of Westernizing reforms. On the contrary, the Western- ization of Orthodox spirituality began long before Peter the Great and con- tinued until at least the early nineteenth century. Father Georges Florovsky, the best expert in Russian theology, wrote about the nearly total separation of the Orthodox secular clergy from the authentic tradition of Eastern Christianity, which was being preserved only in remote hermitages and monasteries that cultivated ascetic contemplation at the cost of completely turning away from "the matters of this world."1 That separation weighed heavily on the history of Russian religious thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

Catholicism and the Eastern Church in Russian Religious and Philosophical Thought

The Soviet and Post Soviet Review , Volume 15 (1): 45 – Jan 1, 1988

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Brill
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1075-1262
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1876-3324
DOI
10.1163/187633288X00031
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ANDRZEJ WALICKI (Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A.) CATHOLICISM AND THE EASTERN CHURCH IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT The Westernization of Russia is usually associated with the secular- ization of Russian culture and with the emergence and development of a Westernized and laicized enlightened stratum. It is often forgotten in this connection that Westernization also covered the Russian Church. Contrary to the opinion, to the spreading of which the Russian Slavophiles have greatly contributed, the Church was not in the least an unshakable bulwark of the Old-Russian Orthodox tradition, saved by some miracle from the de- structive pressure of Westernizing reforms. On the contrary, the Western- ization of Orthodox spirituality began long before Peter the Great and con- tinued until at least the early nineteenth century. Father Georges Florovsky, the best expert in Russian theology, wrote about the nearly total separation of the Orthodox secular clergy from the authentic tradition of Eastern Christianity, which was being preserved only in remote hermitages and monasteries that cultivated ascetic contemplation at the cost of completely turning away from "the matters of this world."1 That separation weighed heavily on the history of Russian religious thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is,

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Published: Jan 1, 1988

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