Open AccessS.L. FRANK: BETWEEN THE "GOD OF PHILOSOPHERS" AND "THE LIVING GOD"
Author(s) -
Irina Yu. Kulyaskina
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2018.2.94-100
Subject(s) - theism , philosophy , epistemology , metaphysics , philosophy of religion , faith , mysticism , existence of god , absolute (philosophy) , interpretation (philosophy) , enthusiasm , religious experience , problem of evil , theology , linguistics
This article continues the work on the problem of possibility of religious (theistic) philosophy as a combination of rational-logical thinking and intuitive-mystical experience. The investigation of this problem started in the article «S.L. Frank on the nature and essence of the “dogmas of faith”», where the philosopher's position on the question of the limits of freedom was analyzed in the philosophical interpretation of religious dogmas. The issue of the correlation between the philosophical and religious understanding of God, presented in the title of the article, is a natural extension of the investigation of this problem. In the article, Frank's evolution, that began along the path of philosophy with the enthusiasm of Marxism, towards metaphysical transcendentalism first, and then to theism, is traced. It demonstrates how starting with the experience of the reality of the spirit, turning to the concept of “absolute being” Frank made an attempt to understand personal religious experience...