Abstract
The term personality (ličnost’) appears in Russian theological literature in the first half of the 19th century under the influence of secular writers indebted to Romantic ideology. Confronted to person it gradually acquires somatic connotations and generally means person inarnate, creative individuality. Asomatic attitude is reflected in Nesmelov. In soteriological perspective, as Sergius Stragorodskij suggests, personality should be subjectively abandonded in order to be finally glorified by God.
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Notes
Innocent alludes to Heb. 5:9.
Regrettably, the inferior textology of this edition does not specify the dates and originals of the published texts.
Not to be mistaken for neo-Kantian philosopher Alexander I. Vvedensky.
Later Archbishop.
“The Incarnation and the redemption of Christ, separated from the oikonomia of the Holy Spirit, cannot substantiate the personal magnitude of the Church, which is just as essential as its natural unity in Christ”—Лосский (2000, p. 287). “The new unity of our nature in Christ shall not rule out the ‘poly-hypostasis’ of man”—Ibid, p. 575.
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Gavryushin, N. The concept of personality in Russian theological literature. Stud East Eur Thought 61, 135–144 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-009-9081-3
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