{"product_id":"holy-russia-sacred-israel-jewish-christian-encounters-in-russian-religious-thought-9781618118202","title":"Holy Russia, Sacred Israel: Jewish-Christian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoly Russia, Sacred Israel\u003c\/em\u003e examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the ‘Old Testament’ philosophically, theologically and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciousness was being stimulated by events ranging from the pogroms of the 1880s, through two Revolutions and World Wars, to exile in Western Europe. An attempt is made to locate the boundaries between the Jewish and Christian, Russian and Western, Gnostic-pagan and Orthodox elements in Russian thought in this period. The author reflects personally on how the heritage of these thinkers – little analyzed or translated in the West – can help Orthodox (and other) Christians respond to Judaism (including ‘Messianic Judaism’), Zionism, and Christian anti-Semitism today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dominic Rubin's Holy Russia, Sacred Israel is a formidable and profoundly impressive piece of research, which needed to be done, and I was very glad to see it. It is a major piece of work.\" -- Most Reverend. Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury\u003cbr\u003e“Holy Russia, Sacred Israel is without a doubt a very important book and contribution to the field. With a deep and sympathetic understanding for both Judaism and Russian Orthodoxy, Dominic Rubin gives us new readings of some of the canonical figures of Russian thought: Soloviev, Florensky, Rozanov, Gershenzon, Karsavin, and Fedotov, among others. This is an important book for Russian culture because the author has no axe to grind and is unafraid of telling truth to power, facing both past anti-Jewish agitation and propaganda, while at the same time never surrendering hope for a future Russian-Jewish philosophical dialogue. Each figure is judged primarily on the merits of their thinking as theology and as humane expression, in a way which displays erudition, tolerance and a love for both Russian and Jewish culture.” -- Brian Horowitz, Professor of Russian and Chair of Jewish Studies, Tulane University\u003cbr\u003e“This is a truly exceptional book. I have reread chapters time and again. In these pages, there are so many things of immediate interest, mainly, I think, for Orthodox theologians and Church leaders. The presentation and commentary on landmark figures like Soloviev, Bulgakov, Berdyaev and Florensky will be of great benefit in helping Orthodox Christians in the twenty first century understand in depth the past relationship between Christianity and Judaism in the Orthodox context, during a period that was of crucial importance for both faiths. Very few people are aware of the details of this relationship, and this book is invaluable in assessing how today’s Orthodox Christians can learn from the past.” -- Fr. Vasile Mihoc, Professor of New Testament Studies, Lucien Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania\u003cbr\u003e\"When Rubin (philosophy, Biblical Hebrew, and Old Testament, St. Philaret's Orthodox Christian Institute and Moscow Higher School of Economics) read Sergei Bulgakov's Sophia: The Divine Wisdom, he was struck by the parallels between Jewish mysticism and Orthodox Russian religious thought. He analyzes these similarities in historical, cultural, literary, and political contexts, plus how still-influential Russian religious thinkers of \"Silver Age\" thought from 1880-1950, e.g., Bulgakov, P. Florensky, N. Berdyaev, V. Rozanov, and V. Soloviev, thought about the Jewish question as a Christian question and how Jewish friendships influenced their writings.\" -- Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a bold attempt to examine the place of Judaism and Jewry in Russian religious thought from Vladimir Solov'ev to Semen Frank. What distinguishes D. Rubin’s approach is that he takes Judaism seriously, he takes anti-Semitism seriously, and he also takes Russian Orthodox Christianity seriously, and he tries to look at their intersections in ways that bring out all the complexities. Although the book is primarily an intellectual history, it is also in part the author’s assessment of the contribution and continuing relevance of Russian religious thought to that dialogue. -- Scott M. Kenworthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One: Soloviev’s Judeo-Russian Wisdom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Russian Jewry in the time of Soloviev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoloviev’s general development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoloviev, the Jews and Judaism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe flawed wholeness of the Jewish nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe encounter with J.Rabinowitz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudaism, Judeo-Christianity and the Law\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTalmudic Judaism and integral Christianity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSophia (Soph-Jah) and Judaic\/Christian pan(en)theism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJewish responses to Soloviev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two: Bulgakov and the sacred blood of Jewry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBulgakov: wrestling with Soloviev’s heritage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Jews in Bulgakov’s thought: a preview of the main problem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudaism and the Old Testament in Bulgakov’s early philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Cities (1906-1910)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Unfading Light (1917)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBulgakov and Kabbalah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBulgakov and Jewry (1): in Russia – the shadow of the Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn early essay in Christian Zionism (1915)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe paradox of Bulgakov’s anti-Semitism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBulgakov’s recollections of the 1905 and 1917 Revolutions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBulgakov and Jewry (2): in exile – the shadow of the Holocaust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Biblical conception of blood and nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSophiology and sacred blood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe blood-chosenness of the Jews after Christ\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe collective fate of Israel and the remnant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA critical development of Bulgakov’s ideas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Messianic Jewish reading of Bulgakov? A (covert) two-covenant reading of Bulgakov? Judas, Saul, and Paul\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBulgakov in two contemporary Russian-Jewish interpretations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three: N\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerdyaev, M\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGershenzon and L\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShestov: Jewish and Russian Nihilists of the Spirit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe three pessimists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerdyaev and Gershenzon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNicolai Berdyaev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMikhail Gershenzon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween Slavophilism and Bolshevism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerdyaev and Gershenzon on Slavophilism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGershenzon, Berdyaev and the Bolshevik Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGershenzon and Vyacheslav Ivanov aft er the Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1922: Berdyaev and Gershenzon on history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerdyaev on history and Jewry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGershenzon and Jewish destiny\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePushkin-Ahasuerus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApotheosis of Jewishness: Gershenzon against Land, Torah and People\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe ‘Judaization’ of Berdyaev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLev Shestov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShestov on Gershenzon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShestov on Buber and Judaism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShestov on Berdyaev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShestov, Bulgakov and Steinberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBulgakov on Shestov: ‘fi deist without faith’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteinberg on Shestov: reveal the ‘black man’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudaism beyond the Pale: superseding both Testaments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGershenzon and Shestov – differences and similarities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV.V.Zenkovsky: the dialectic of Jewry and Christianity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four: Vasily Rozanov (and Pavel Florensky)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Sinful slave Vasily….’ Rozanov’s intellectual development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarly Rozanov: Judaism over Christianity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Judaism” (1903)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe immanent church of conciliar Jewry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1.Circumcision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2.Sabbath\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3.Mikveh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAstarte, Egypt and Judaism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe agonies of Marcionism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiddle Rozanov: Russia expels the Jew within\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Jewish encounters in the Beilis years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMikhail Gershenzon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAaron Steinberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRozanov’s Judeophobic outpourings (1911-1914)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlorensky: Rozanov’s secret helper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlorensky’s Jewish writings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRitual murder and the eucharist.The fl aw in Florensky’s two-tiered logic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlorensky, Romans 11 and Jewish blood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlorensky’s ‘Kabbalistic scholarship’ Florensky: the broader context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOccultism and magic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical totalitarianism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKatsis and Florensky’s ‘Christian exegesis’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlorensky’s position in Russian religious thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eName-worship and symbolism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIosef Davydovich Levin: “I met Florensky once….” Christianity and anti-Semitism: final words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five: L\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarsavin and A\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteinberg: Russia and Israel Symphonically\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterwined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo friends, two worlds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEurasianism,Volphila, Autonomism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Karsavin-Steinberg exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarsavin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteinberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInflected philosophy: Jews and Russians among the Greeks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteinberg, Jewishness and philosophy: How strange that I am a Jew\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJewishness and Russianness in philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJewish Platonized Kantianism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteinberg and Jewishness in philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe boundaries between the believer and the world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCore and periphery, Orthodoxy and Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe case of Georgy Fedotov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe case of Alexander Meier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarsavin: rootless Christianity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“A Study in Apologetics” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarsavin: experiencing the Jewish vision of God (Poem on Death)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTh e tortured Jewess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContrary couples\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarsavin’s and Steinberg’s triadology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIsrael and the living God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe end of the Poem on Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Inquisitor and the Jewess-‘conversa’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe final drama\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe role of the Jewess in the final drama\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJews and personality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinal years: London, Lithuania, Siberia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbez and a final Jewish encounter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeath and burial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Six: Semyon Frank: from russkiy yevrei to russkiy yevropeetz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank: the Jew as universal man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank’s philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank and Gershenzon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank’s universalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank and Gershenzon from Landmarks to Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGershenzon and Frank: the wisdom of Pushkin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePushkin between Frank and Gershenzon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePushkin’s message for contemporary Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRussian-Jewish Wisdom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank and German-Jewish philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCohen and Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank and Cohen on suffering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank and Rosenzweig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe argument of The Star and Frank’s critique\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Star\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe critique\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvaluation of Frank’s critique\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank and O.Goldberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Soloviev’s heirs: the third generation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlexander Men: Bulgakovian Judeo-Christianity? The polemic against Men’s Jewish Christianity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eN.Feingold and S.Lyosov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMen in the context of post-Auschwitz theology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBenevich: no Jew, no gentile – no Russian? Conclusion: Russian Orthodoxy and Jewish-Christian dialogue – a note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359756386647,"sku":"9781618118202","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618118202.jpg?v=1754125615","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/holy-russia-sacred-israel-jewish-christian-encounters-in-russian-religious-thought-9781618118202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}