Flor Georgy

28.8/9.9.1893 - 11.8.1979

Trivia Graduated from the historical-philological faculty of the Odessa University Press, where he studied as science. In 1920 - he emigrated. Since 1926 - Professor. Department patrologist Russian Institute of Theology in Paris. In 1932 received the priesthood. From 1948 he worked in SSHA, was dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary in New York. Since 1956 - Professor. history of the Eastern Church at Harvard University are. One of the founders of the World Council of Churches. From hobbies eurasism came to his criticism. Negative attitude to the "sociological" interpretation of Orthodoxy. 14 volumes of Collected. soch.Florovskogo published in the United States.

Characteristic views Relativism Florovsky profoundly different from the relativism of Protagoras. He simply wants to say that human knowledge is formal and incomplete, and its progress in indefinitum (endless). (Lossky N.O. History of Russian Philosophy. M., 1991. S. 499).
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. Teaching Dynamics of created being is free, . creative and open, . for the realization of one or other of ontological possibilities are not predetermined, . and provided for freedom of creation, . which may be in a limb or her overcome, . achieving unity with God through "synergy", . kind soobrazovaniya, . co-work with the free will of man with God's grace, . engages connection,
. (Horuzhy C. in the book.: Russian Philosophy. Small Collegiate Dictionary. M., 1995. S. / / Exodus to the East. Premonitions and achievements. Adoption Eurasians. Sofia, 1921; 2 / Eurasian temptation. / / Modern Notes. Paris, 1926 3 / Ways of Russian Theology. Paris, 1937 / pereizd. M., 1994.

Works Vol.: Eastern Fathers IV in. Paris, 1931; Byzantine Fathers V-VIII centuries. Paris, 1933; Ways rus. Theology. Paris, 1937.
References to the 80-th Minutes. George Florovsky: his life / / Herald RSHD. 1974. ? 108-110; Sviridov and. Some aspects of the theology of. George Florovsky / / Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. 1989. ? 4; Horuzhy C. Russia, Eurasia and the father of George Florovsky / / Beginning. 1991. ? 3; goby. Unread thinker / / Path. M., 1994. ? 6; Williams R. Eastern Orthodox Theology (GVFlorovsky) / / The Modern Theologians, ed. D. Ford. Vol. 2, Oxford; NY, 1989; Shaw LF. The Philosophical Evolution of Georges Florovsky: Philosophical Psychology and the Philosophy of History / / St.Vladimir `s Theological Quartely, 1993. Vol. 36,? 3; Georges Florovsky: Russian Intellectual and Orthodox Churchman, ed. Andrew Blane, 1993 (in Russian. ed.: G.F. - Priest, theologian, philosopher. , 1995; there bibl. mp. F.).