Abstract
This article introduces the theological and philosophical thoughts of Lev Karsavin, who was one of the most creative representatives of Russian religious philosophy in the early 20th century. His conception was historically the last amongst the great systems of Russian metaphysics of all-unity. This conception gave an opportunity for developing an understanding of the relations between God and the world, and the act of creation as gift of God.
Highlights
Russian thinker Lev Platonovich Karsavin was one of the most original minds of religious metaphysics of the 20th century and the most interesting proponent of the philosophy of allunity
In the metaphysics of Karsavin’s world is the created Absolute, because God included in himself both the uncreated and the created, the infinite and the finite, This dialectical relation is very similar to the Hegelian concept of Schelingian narrative, but in opposition to the classical theology, which claims that the infinite is the attribute of God, but creation is not infinite but finite
The catastrophic events of the Russian Revolution forcibly put an end to this era, and all this largely determined the thinking of Karsavin and other vivid religious thinkers of this epoch
Summary
Russian thinker Lev Platonovich Karsavin was one of the most original minds of religious metaphysics of the 20th century and the most interesting proponent of the philosophy of allunity He was born in 1882 in St. Petersburg and studied at the Historical-Pedagogical Faculty of St. Petersburg University. This highly interesting book was Karsavin’s conception developed as an interpretation of the relation of the Absolute to the nonAbsolute He starts from the thesis that the world is an explication or manifestation of God as a theophany. These theologians reject the neo-scholastic distinction of grace and nature, and promote the integral approach for understanding created beings in relation to the Absolute. God–Love and God–Justice are different modes of perception of God in the human mind
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