Iconostasis

Name: Iconostasis
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ISBN: 9780881411171

ISBN-10: 0881411175

ISBN-13: 9780881411171

Edition: 1996

Authors: Pavel Florensky

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Born in 1882, Fr Pavel Florensky was a brilliant philosopher, theologian, scientist, and art historian who, in 1911, became an Orthodox priest. By the time of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, Fr Pavel had become a leading voice in Russia's great movement in religious philosophy, a movement whose roots lay in the rich ground of nineteenth-century Russian monasticism and whose branches included the work of Bulgakov, Berdiaev, and Solovyev. In the 1920s and 1930s the Soviets violently destroyed this splendor of Russian religious thought. In 1922, Fr Pavel was silenced, and, after a decade of forced scientific work for the regime, he was arrested on false charges, tried, imprisoned, and, in 1937,…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 166
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Boris Jakim is an experienced translator of Russian religious thought. In addition to Florensky's work, he has translated the works of S. L. Frank, Vladimir Solovyov, and Sergius Bulgakov. He is also cotranslator of Ivan Goncharov's novel The Precipice.



Preface


Introduction


Introduction: The Spiritual Structure of Dreams


Spiritual Sobriety and the Iconic Face


Orthodox Services and the Icon


The Councils on the Icon and the Iconpainter's Canonic Life


A Dialogue with Sophia Ivanova


The History of Artistic Technique, Western and Iconic


Iconic Clothes and the Meaning of Gold


The Ontology of Making the Icon


The Metaphysics of Light and St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians


Conclusion: The Egyptian Death-Mask and the Life of the Saint


Index