Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Catholic Erudition of Metropolitan Arseny Matseyevich in the Context of Russian Theology Modernization in the 18th Century

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (4)
Authors
Andreev, Aleksandr N.; Andreeva, Yulia S.
Contact information
Andreev, Aleksandr N. : South Ural State University (National Research University) Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation; alxand@yandex.ru; Andreeva, Yulia S. : South Ural State Medical University Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation; iulyand@yandex.ru
Keywords
Catholic erudition; Orthodox- Catholic theological relations; the Russian Orthodox Church in the 18-th century; Metropolitan Arseny Matseyevich
Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigation the Catholic acculturation features of Arseny Matseyevich, a famous Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 18th century. The subjects of the study are Arseny Matseyevich’s connections with the Catholic theological culture and his views on the Western Church scholarship. In historiography the Matseyevich’s conflict with the Russian government is well studied, however his theological views, historical thinking, and peculiar cultural orientation are still remain poorly researched. The authors conclude that, despite the dogmatic differences between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church, Metropolitan Arseny considered Catholic scholarship (structurally and methodologically) as the highest form of Church knowledge. The Metropolitan’s views demonstrate an acute conflict of traditions and innovations, which is generally characteristic of Russia in the 18th century. The Metropolitan’s Catholic scholarship indirectly points to the early formation of conservative ideas in Catholic theology – long before the “official” nascence of conservatism in the Western Europe social and political thought. The cultural approach is utilized in our work, making it possible to consider the Arseny’s reception of the fruits of Western erudition as a litmus paper that reveals not only the nature and intermediate results of Russian modernization, but also indicates the degree of “modernity” of Western European societies

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642–651
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/152825

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