Georges Florovsky

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Georges Vasilievich Florovsky (

categories of thought.

Life

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Georgiy Vasilievich Florovsky was born in

In the 1920s, Florovsky had a personal and vocational friendship with the existentialist philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, but the two became distanced later, through Berdyaev's not understanding Florovsky's ordination to the presbyterate in 1932 and because of the critical attitude to Berdyaev's philosophy of religion expressed in Florovsky's Ways of Russian Theology (1937).

In 1924, Florovsky received his M.A. in

In 1949, Florovsky moved to the United States to take a position as Dean of Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York City. There, his development of the curriculum led to the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York granting the Seminary an Absolute Charter in 1953.

In 1955, Florovsky was asked by his synod overseers to "lay down the deanship."^[1][why?] He became a professor of divinity at Harvard University and ended his academic years as a professor at Princeton University.

He died on 11 August 1979 in Princeton.

Works

• Eastern Fathers of the Fourth Century (1931. Paris)
• The Ways of Russian Theology (online)
• The Catholicity of the Church online
• The Lost Scriptural Mind online
• On Church and Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View online
• St. John Chrysostom. The Prophet of Charity online Archived 2004-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
• The Ascetic Ideal and the New Testament. Reflections on the Critique of the Theology of the Reformation online
• The Limits of the Church, Church Quarterly Review, 1933 (online)
• Following the Holy Fathers (Excerpt of The Collected Works of Georges Florovsky Vol. IV, "Patristic Theology and the Ethos of the Orthodox Church," Part II, p. 15-22) online
• St Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers, 1961 online
• Revelation and Interpretation online
• Scripture and Tradition: an Orthodox View online
• The Work of the Holy Spirit in Revelation online
• Holy Icons online
• Collected works published 1972-1979 (vol. 1-5) in Belmont, Mass. by Nordland Pub., and 1987-1989 (vol. 6-14) in Vaduz, Europa by Büchervertriebsanstalt.
  • Collected Works. Volume 1: Bible, Church, Tradition
  • Collected Works. Volume 2: Christianity and Culture excerpts online
  • Collected Works. Volume 3: Creation and Redemption [excerpts online]
  • Collected Works. Volume 4: Aspects of Church History excerpts online
  • Collected Works. Volume 5: Ways of Russian Theology, Part I
  • Collected Works. Volume 6: Ways of Russian Theology, Part II
  • Collected Works. Volume 7: Eastern Fathers of the Fourth Century
  • Collected Works. Volume 8: Byzantine Fathers of the Fifth Century
  • Collected Works. Volume 9: Byzantine Fathers of the Sixth to Eight Centuries
  • Collected Works. Volume 10: Byzantine Ascetic and Spiritual Fathers
  • Collected Works. Volume 11: Theology and Literature
  • Collected Works. Volume 12: Philosophy
  • Collected Works. Volume 13: Ecumenism I: A Doctrinal Approach
  • Collected Works. Volume 14: Ecumenism II: An Historical Approach

See also

• List of Russian philosophers
• Eastern Orthodox Christian theology
• Philosophers' ships

References

Further reading

• A. Blane, Georges Florovsky; Russian Intellectual and Orthodox Churchman (1993)
  ISBN 0-88141-137-X
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• Peter A. Chamberas, "Georges Vasilievich Florovsky: Russian intellectual historian and orthodox theologian - 1893-1979 - Religious Historians, East and West", Modern Age, Winter 2003 (FindArticles online version).
• Steven Aguzzi, "Florovsky’s 'The Boundaries of the Church' in Dialogue with the Reformed Tradition: Toward a Catholic and Charismatic Ecumenical Ecclesiology," Ecumenical Trends; 39:3 (2010), 8–14.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Georges Florovsky.

• Collected Works of Fr Georges Florovsky, in part online
• Lewis Shaw, Georges Florovsky's Model of Orthodox Ecclesiology at the Wayback Machine (archived September 28, 2007)
• Bishop Chrysostomos of Etna, Protopresybter Georges Florovsky at the Wayback Machine (archived June 11, 2021)
• John S. Romanides, F. Georges Florovsky, the theologian in service of the church in ecumenical dialogue Lecture at St. Vladimir's Seminary 23 May 1980
• Harvard Divinity School Faculty Writings File: Georges Florovsky
• Princeton University Library: Georges Florovsky Papers
• St. Vladimir's Seminary Library: The Fr. Georges Florovsky Papers
• Nikolai Berdyaev, Ortodoksia and Humanness, 1937, Critique of Florovsky's "The Way of the Russian Church"
• Matthew Baker, 'The Eternal ‘Spirit of the Son’: Barth, Florovsky and Torrance on the Filioque', in International Journal of Systematic Theology; 12:4 (2010 October), p. 382–403. [1]
• Matthew Baker and Nikolaos Asproulis, 'Secondary Bibliography of Scholarly Literature and Conferences on Florovsky', in ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ: The Journal of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, 81/40, Vol. 4 (2010), pp. 557–396. [2]
• Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society: A graduate student organization of Princeton University dedicated to promoting the study of the life and work of Fr. Georges Florovsky and of Orthodox theology. [3]