Merezhkovsky's Neo-Christianity of the Third Testament
From Symbolist Historiosophy to Radical Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3340343 |
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| Authors | Vadim Polonsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 456 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12070456 |
| OpenAlex | W3177132887 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article places Dmitry Merezhkovsky's Chiliastic concept of Three Testaments into a unified structure. The author analyzes the writer's integral system of Christological, anthropological, and historiosophicidiomyths and meta-symbols. He studies the religious, philosophical, and aesthetic genesis of the semantic transformation of traditional theological constructions and the doctrinal compilation of Russian fin de siècle culture dominant elements. It is shown how religious Modernist mythmaking alters political reality in Merezhkovsky's mind and draws him towards radical ideologies of the extreme left and right
Art · Christianity · Ideology · Literature · New Testament · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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