Why Read Pavel Florensky

by John Burgess

This book offers an excellent, accessible introduction to the life and thought of Father Pavel Florensky, one of the most prominent religious philosophers of Russia's highly creative Silver Age at the beginning of the twentieth century. Florensky, an Orthodox priest, died in Stalin's gulag in 1937. His writings were long suppressed in the Soviet Union, and Western Protestant and Catholic theologians have known little about him. John Burgess argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813238684
• ISBN13: 9780813238685
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 224 Pages