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Holy Russia, Sacred Israel: Jewish-Christian Encounters in Russian Religious Thought (Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History)

By Dominic Rubin

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2010
ISBN
1934843792, 9781934843796
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
35 MB (37003419 bytes)
Pages
570\551
Time added
2022-12-18 07:42:32

Description

Holy Russia, Sacred Israel 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.

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