Interview about Tamara Alexandrovna Florenskaya, whose life was devoted to the preaching of faith in science

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2. Original titleИнтервью о Тамаре Александровне Флоренской, жизнь положившей на проповедь веры в науке
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Asliturk, Miriam
5. lemma category Scientific theories and disciplines > Medicine
6. Publication date 07-07-2018
7. lemma work Арендаренко, А. [Author]. Интервью о Тамаре Александровне Флоренской, жизнь положившей на проповедь веры в науке
8. lemma manifestations Церковь и Биоэтика: Церковно-общественный совет по биомедицинской этике при Московской Патриархии.
9. Keywords Russian Orthodoxy - psychiatry and Christianity - spirituality - Orthodox spirituality
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    1. <p>Арендаренко, А. (2010). Интервью о Тамаре Александровне Флоренской, жизнь положившей на проповедь веры в науке. <em>Церковь и Биоэтика: Церковно-общественный совет по биомедицинской этике при Московской Патриархии.</em> Retrieved from: <a href="http://bioethics.orthodoxy.ru/biblioteka/khristianstvo-i-meditsina/261-">http://bioethics.orthodoxy.ru/biblioteka/khristianstvo-i-meditsina/261-</a> </p>
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    1. This is an interview M.D. Psychiatrist Father Valery (Larichev) who serves a priest in the Moscow Region. Father Valery talks about psychiatrist Tamara Florenskaya who had been Orthodox Christian during Soviet times. Florenskaya wrote many scientific medical texts that were based on Christian ethics. Valery distinguishes psychiatrists from priests because psychiatrists heal to make life easier and priests help to prepare for the after-life. Florenskaya had been a practicing psychiatrist all her life and studied works of Church Fathers. She explained that secular psychiatrists did not use the religious concept of sin, but she believed that understanding this notion was important to understanding the troubles of the human soul. 

       Father Valery maintains that science and society in general turned away from God. This was not the case with Florenskaya who had always believed that there is no other way for salvation but through prayer and active loving. Florenskaya’s favourite student, Marina Kolpakova recently defended her PhD thesis on assistance to women that want to abandon newly born babies in hospitals. Kolpakova succeeded to help many of these women change their mind. Father Valery believes Kolpakova managed to awaken these women’s spiritual “self”, the concept that Florenskaya had rehabilitated in Russian psychology.