Abstract
Clemena Antonova brings the highly original thinking of the Russian polymath, Pavel Florensky, to bear on the looming sense of social and political crisis permeating the first decades of the twenty-first century. In her exploration of Florensky’s thought, Clemena defends two contentious claims. First, she argues that, in contrast to what many scholars believe, Florensky was not a theologian but, rather, a religious philosopher. Second, she argues that much of Florensky’s work can be thought of as translating theological language into the language of philosophy. She especially focuses on his work translating the theological dogma of consubstantiality into the Russian philosophical concept of full unity. After developing these ideas, Clemena draws upon them to address contemporary issues related to the sense of crisis pervading the twenty-first century; namely, theories of multiple modernity, secularisation, and communitarian philosophy.
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Antonova, C. (2022). Christian Philosophy as a Philosophy of Crisis: Re-reading Florensky in the Twenty-First Century. In: Siemens, J., Brown, J.M. (eds) Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10762-7_11
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