THE IDEAS OF UNITY AND GOD-MANHOOD IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF V. SOLOVYOV AND S. BULGAKOV

Koroleva-Konoplyanaya G. I.

In the Great Litany of today's church service there are the words: "For the peace of the whole world, the welfare of the holy churches of God and the union of them all, let us pray to the Lord." And although the modern Orthodox Church is very critical of the religious and philosophical ideas of V. Solovyov, S. Bulgakov and other representatives of the Russian religious Renaissance, considering them an attempt to correct Orthodoxy and the writings of the Holy Fathers of the Church, many of these ideas deserve attention and research, and are significant because "the integrity of his thought managed to unite philosophy with theology," and the idea of unity in a modern unbalanced, often hostile world is becoming more relevant. In addition, discussions about the meaning of philosophical and religious ideas in Solovyov”s, Bulgakow”s assessment of their personality by their contemporaries and twentieth-century scientists is very contradictory and ambiguous. In this article, the author attempts to examine the ideas of unity and God-manhood of two philosophers: V. Solovyov and S. Bulgakov, to show the difference between their ideas and Orthodox Orthodoxy, although there may be more questions than answers.

Keywords:unity, God-manhood, Sophia, sobornost, universal soul, theodicy, Neoplatonism, pantheism, mystical experience, kabbalistics, absolute