The Carmelite Institute Malta in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology and the Russian Centre for Science and Culture, in occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the untimely death of Pavel Florenskij, one of Russia’s most erudite and prolific thinkers, is organising a public lecture to honour his memory and heritage for the twenty-first century.
The public lecture entitled 'Pavel Florenskij: A Heritage for the Twenty-First Century' will be held on 7 December at 19:00 at the Russian Centre for Science & Culture 36, Merchants Street, Valletta.
Pavel Florenskij (1882-1937), perhaps one of the greatest eclectic minds of the twentieth century, was a physicist, philosopher and theologian, priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, husband, father of five children, art and literary critic, and, most importantly, a mystic. Florenskij could perhaps best be described as spiritual yet equally concrete, orthodox yet equally progressive, scientific yet equally artistic, restless yet equally rooted in God. He was known among his peers as the Russian Leonardo da’ Vinci.
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