Pavel Florenskij’s The Concept of the Church in Sacred Scripture : the reaction and response of a systematic theologian

Abstract

In a chapter on Eastern Orthodox theology in the book The Modern Theologians, and before being propelled to Cantuarian fame, Rowan Williams describes Pavel Florenskij as “a brilliant and eccentric polymath who finally disappeared in the Gulag.”1 Several learned colleagues from this Faculty and from a wide spectrum of other Faculties in this alma mater have already demonstrated the eclectic interests and expertise of this great Russian. It is therefore unnecessary to contextualize the author and his multifaceted talents. One is therefore called to delve immediately into the reaction and the response to Florenskij’s The Concept of the Church in Sacred Scripture from the point of view of systematic theology.