Science and Russian Orthodox Scholarship

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ID3556471
AuthorsKarl Hall (Russian Academy of Sciences), Dimitri Bayuk, Dimitri A Bayuk (0000-0001-7039-9887, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Year2016
Volume107
Issue3
Pages573-578
Publication date2016-09-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIsis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/688415
PMID28707863
OpenAlexW2511486753
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

In Russia the theme of science and religion found its strongest resonance at the levels of humanistic scholarship and Christianity in general, where visions of harmony dominated and doctrinal and confessional particularity was largely absent. The fraught relations of both the Holy Synod and the Imperial Academy of Sciences with the Russian state since the early eighteenth century had the collateral consequence of minimal institutional contacts between theology and natural philosophy. Though “scientific apologetics” eventually found a place in the seminaries, scientists did not contribute to this scholarship in the nineteenth century. The rare prominent scientist who entertained religious beliefs posited either harmony or conflict in public writings even more rarely, and it is the varieties of religious indifference—not solely Soviet in origin—that invite historical inquiry

Art · Christianity · Harmony (color) · Humanism · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Theology · Toleration · Vision · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies

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