Abstract
Chapter 4 covered four aspects of Vladimir Solovyov’s religious thought and experience. These were as follows:
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his perception of natural, earthly, physical existence as unsatisfying for men;
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his view of Christianity as a teaching that offers unique and distinct precepts for organising men’s lives and social relations;
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his own visions of universal harmony;
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his concern with epistemology and with criticism of exclusive philosophies
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See Dom Christopher Butler’s observations on perfectibility, in his article ‘Soloviev’, Downside Review, 1932, vol. 50 (New Series) pp. 57–9.
See how closely these lines correspond with the ideas expressed by Friedrich von Huegel (1852–1925) in his authoritative Essays and Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion, (London: Dent, 1921).
See Professor Andrzej Walicki’s excellent account of the evolution in Solovyov’s views on law: ‘Vladimir Solov’ev and the Legal Philosophies of Russian Liberalism’ in Russian Thought and Society, 1800–1917: Essays in Honour of Eugene Lampert, edited by Roger Bartlett (University of Keele, 1984) pp. 153–80.
Ernest L. Radlov, Vl.S. Solovyov: His Life and Teaching (Vl. S. Solovyov: zhizn’ i uchenie), (Petersburg, 1913) p. 162.
Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1973 edition) p. 224.
Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1936) p. 67.
Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge — Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St. John of the Cross, (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1979, reprinted in 1981) pp. 44–5.
See Paul C. Hayner, Reason and Existence: Schelling’s Philosophy of History (Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1967).
Ananda Coomaraswamy, Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Goverment, (New Haven, USA: American Oriental Society, 1942).
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Sutton, J. (1988). The Central Teachings of Solovyov—II. In: The Religious Philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov. Library of Philosophy and Religion . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19422-3_5
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