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Explores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid-to late-eighteenth century. Grounded in close readings of the sermons and devotional writings of Platon Levshin, court preacher and metropolitan bishop of Moscow, this book examines the blending of European thought into the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy.

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Wirtschafter offers a detailed and engaging exposition of Platon's sermons.

* Times Literary Supplement *

A fine achievement that deserves attention from non-Russianists.

* European History Quarterly *

Wirtschafter provides a fascinating, well-researched, persuasively argued case study though a close reading of the sermons of one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most important clerics, Metropolitan Platon.

* The Journal of Modern History *

Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 15/03/2013
      ISBN13: 9780875806983, 978-0875806983
      ISBN10: 0875806988
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid-to late-eighteenth century. Grounded in close readings of the sermons and devotional writings of Platon Levshin, court preacher and metropolitan bishop of Moscow, this book examines the blending of European thought into the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy.

      Trade Review

      Wirtschafter offers a detailed and engaging exposition of Platon's sermons.

      * Times Literary Supplement *

      A fine achievement that deserves attention from non-Russianists.

      * European History Quarterly *

      Wirtschafter provides a fascinating, well-researched, persuasively argued case study though a close reading of the sermons of one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most important clerics, Metropolitan Platon.

      * The Journal of Modern History *

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