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Vladimir Solovyov

Disciplines:
poetry
ancient philosophy/sophiology
philosophy of religion/religious philosophy
theology/ecumenism

Summary

Russian religious philosopher, poet, and mystic. Founder of the Russian Sophiological tradition, he sought to unify Eastern and Western Christianity and to develop a philosophy of All-Unity in which Sophia is the soul of the world and mediator between God and creation.

Core Contribution

Founded Russian Sophiological philosophy; developed the concept of the World-Soul (Sophia) as a metaphysical entity linking the divine and the created; argued for Christian ecumenism and theosophy as a philosophical program.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Sophia as World-Soul
  • All-Unity philosophy
  • Christian ecumenism
  • Russian Silver Age mysticism

Notable Works & Achievements

Lectures on Divine Humanity

The Meaning of Love

Russia and the Universal Church

Three Encounters

The Justification of the Good

Historical Influences

Jakob Bohme F.W.J. Schelling Plato Fyodor Dostoevsky Orthodox mysticism

Intellectual Lineage

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Contemporaries & Peers

Fyodor Dostoevsky Lev TolstoyPavel Florensky

Minds Influenced

Sergei Bulgakov Pavel Florensky Andrei BelyAlexander BlokValentin Tomberg Nicolas Berdyaev

Intellectual Posterity

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