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Title of the article: |
JUSTIN (POPOVICH) ON RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL AGENDA IN THE WORKS OF F. M. DOSTOEVSKY |
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Author(s): |
Sergei I. Bazhov |
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Information about the author/authors |
Sergey I. Bazhov — PhD in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Goncharnaya St. 12, p. 1, 109240 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: bazhovsi@mail.ru |
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Section |
Theory and history of culture |
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Year |
2019 |
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Volume |
Vol. 53 |
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Pages |
pp. 48–53 |
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Received |
September 02, 2018 |
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Date of publication |
September 28, 2019 |
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Index UDK |
008 |
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Index BBK |
71.4 |
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Abstract |
Canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2010, Justin (Popovich) was not only a major Orthodox theologian, but also the researcher of Dostoevsky's writing. The paper examines Jusitn`s interpretation of religious and philosophical issues in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky and highlights his views on F. M. Dostoevsky as an Orthodox thinker, on religious-anthropological and theological issues in the work of the writer and thinker, on reasons of continuing popularity of F. M. Dostoevsky`s legacy. Justin considers the writer to be the greatest Confessor, most typical and original representative of Orthodoxy and Orthodox philosophy of modern times and as the Orthodox Dante. In contrast to the rationalistic methods of scholasticism and Protestantism, the method of Orthodox philosophy is based, as Justin puts it — on the growth in spiritual experience. According to Dostoevsky religion is intended to participate in the solution of anthropological issues. In the religious art space of F. M. Dostoevsky Justin highlights positive and negative characters in the first place — immortalists and mortalists respectively, basing on their differing positive or negative solution of eternal issues. Justin examines thoroughly Dostoevsky's Christian interpretation of the issues of suffering, freedom, theodicy, the boundaries of rational thinking, noting that Dostoevsky's issue of Russia and Europe is transformed into one of the relationship between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The paper concludes by emphasizing that the works of Justin on Dostoevsky's writing can be considered as another evidence of the continuing interest in the work of the great Russian writer-thinker among religious philosophers and theologians, not only in Russia but also abroad, which attests a significant extent of Dostoevsky's insight into the issues of Christian consciousness of the modern European era. |
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Keywords |
Iustin (Popovich), religious-philosophical and anthropological issues in F. M. Dostoevsky's works, F. M. Dostoevsky as an Orthodox thinker. |
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References |
1 Prep. Iustin (Popovich). F. M. Dostoevskii o Evrope i slavianstve [F. M. Dostoevsky on Europe and Slavdom]. St. Petersburg, Izdatel'skii dom “Admiralteistvo” Publ., 1998. 271 p. (In Russian) 2 Prep. Iustin (Popovich). Filosofiia i religiia F. M. Dostoevskogo [Philosophy and religion of F. M. Dostoevsky]. Minsk, Izdatel'stvo D. V. Kharchenko Publ., 2008. 307 p. (In Russian) |
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