ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Russian history |
Vorontsova Irina V. | Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University |
Keywords: Anton Vladimirovich Kartashev new Christianity neo-Christianity Russian religious renaissance Russian Orthodox Church reform religious reformism |
Summary: The article continues a series of publications about the participants of the religious movement for the church reform that unfolded
in Russia at the beginning of the XX century. The author analyzed the intellectual biography of Anton Kartashev between 1902
and 1911, when Kartashev was fascinated by the “new religious consciousness”. During these years, he formed his views on the
role of the Church in the religious revival of Russia after the dominance of positivism since the 1860s. In 1902, Kartashev, among
other representatives of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, attended religious and philosophical meetings in St. Petersburg
(1901–1903). The young associate professor of the Academy was fascinated by the freedom of religious quest by the near-church
intelligentsia and imbued with the pathos of the “prophetic service” for Russia. It was during these little-studied years of his life that
the metaphysical features of his concept of the “new incarnation” of the Russian Church for the sake of the future theocracy – Holy
Russia – were laid. The “new Christians” religious movement with its reformist type doctrine left its traces in one form or another on
the consciousness of many people who supported it in the early years of the XX century. Anton Kartashev was no exception – for a long time he criticized the Russian Orthodox Church for not being ready for internal religious reform, and for its inability to fit into
modern society. |
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