Commonwealth of Theology and Philology

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleО содружестве богословия и филологии
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Complementarity
6. Publication date 15-07-2015
7. lemma work Агафангел, игумен (Гагуа) [Author]. Commonwealth of Theology and Philology
8. lemma manifestations Богослов.ру
9. Keywords Philology - onomatodoxy - Russian philosophy - Hermeneutics
10. Citations
    1. http://www.bogoslov.ru/text/4626578.html
11. Lemma body

    1. Hegumen Agafangel discusses in his article the relationship and historical interaction of theology and philology and suggests this interaction can bring the richest spiritual fruits.

       In attempt to understand the timeless factor in the context of philological research, philology and exegesis (hermeneutics in the broad sense) are not only eternal opponents of each other, but also companions on the historical path - the way to eternity, the author believes. Commentary interpretation, explanation, understanding - all these mental operations used in philology have a direct connection with hermeneutical and exegetical methodology; therefore we can quite responsibly declare after S.S. Averintsev about the humanitarian commonwealth of theology and philology in the matter of spiritual comprehension of the world of Christian culture.

       Thus, the author gives an example of the onomatodoxy movement, when there was conducted a unique discussion "both on the issues of the language and speech origin, on the status of national languages in the context of Christian culture, on the search for a universal language and the rationale for the Church sacred language idea, on ontological grounds of the word. In fact - a widely understood philological problematic. "

       Theologoumena and conceptual thought constructs of V. Soloviev, Father Pavel Florensky, Father Sergiy Bulgakov, A.F. Losev and other Silver Age Orthodox thinkers were formulated, taking into account the need to build new contexts for comprehension of church-dogmatic problems (that is, in order to find ways of its deeper understanding), the author asserts. On the paths of such a theology, philological problems inevitably emerged, and philology itself was understood etymologically broadly as an experience of love for the Logos-Christ-the embodied Word of God and His Name.