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Church and State in the Horizon of the Unity of Everything. Vladimir Solovyov and the Construction of the Theological-Political Cover

Church and State in the Horizon of the Unity of Everything. Vladimir Solovyov and the Construction of the Theological-Political

By: Marian Pătru  
Open Access
|Aug 2018

Abstract

This paper aims at reconstructing the political theology of Vladimir Solovyov. Taking as a starting point the argumentative pattern of Carl Schmitt, my research focuses on the analysis of the two central elements of the political theology of the Russian philosopher: first, on the ontological premise which is justifying the possibility of the union of religion and politics in a coherent and functional whole (i.e. the condition of the possibility of this mixed reality); second and as a direct result of this premise, on the description of the reasoning process through which Solovyov is pleading for establishing a close relation between religion and politics, Church and State (i.e. the stages of the theological-political discourse). The relation between religion and politics has cosmic significance as it is supposed to lead to the unification of the whole material and spiritual world in God.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2018-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2359-8107 | Journal ISSN: 2359-8093
Language: English, German
Page range: 156 - 169
Published on: Aug 30, 2018
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2018 Marian Pătru, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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