Theology and Philosophy in Eastern Orthodoxy

Even in the twenty-first century, critical and creative engagement with modern and postmodern philosophy is a rarity in Orthodox circles. The collection of essays presented here by Christoph Schneider makes a significant contribution to overcoming this deficit. Eight scholars from six different countries, working on the intersection between Orthodox thought and philosophy, present their research in short and accessible form. The topics covered range from political philosophy to phenomenology, metaphysics, philosophy of self, logic, ethics, and philosophy of language. The authors do not all promote one particular approach to the relationship between Orthodox theology and philosophy. Nevertheless, taken together, their work demonstrates that Orthodox scholarship is not confined to historical research about the Byzantine era, but can contribute to, and enrich, contemporary intellectual debates.



Christoph Schneider is Academic Director and Lecturer in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, UK.



Contributors Introduction The Quest for a Christian Philosophy Christoph Schneider 1 Theocracy, Sobornost', and Democracy Reflections on Vladimir Putin's Philosophers Evert van der Zweerde 2 The Russian Postsecular Kristina Stoeckl & Dmitry Uzlaner 3 Orthodoxy and Phenomenology Religious Experience in the Eastern Christian Tradition Christina M. Gschwandtner 4 Orthodox Theology and the Inevitability of Metaphysics David Bentley Hart 5 Orthodox Theology and Philosophy of Self Sergey S. Horujy 6 Orthodoxy and Logic The Case of Pavel Florensky's Theory of Antinomy Pawel Rojek 7 Orthodoxy, Philosophy, and Ethics Rico Vitz 8 Orthodoxy and Philosophy of Language Christoph Schneider