TY - JOUR

T1 - Религиозные искания С.Л. Франка в эмиграции. Статья первая: от истинного христианства И.Г. Фихте к церковному православию

AU - Евлампиев, Игорь Иванович

PY - 2026/10/5

Y1 - 2026/10/5

N2 - The article traces the changes in S.L. Frank's religious views after his expulsion from Russia, during his emigration. It examines the pre-revolutionary period of Frank's work, with his orientation toward I.G. Fichte's concept of true Christianity, based on the idea of the immanent presence of the God-Absolute, who lacks personal definition, in the human soul. Frank's philosophical system, as expounded in The Object of Knowledge (1915) and The Soul of Man (1917), is presented as an original version of the philosophical tradition of mystical pantheism. An analysis of Frank's early émigré views shows that the philosopher revised his religious worldview and truly deeply embraced Church Orthodoxy, which led to the contradictory nature and far less substantive character of his first émigré works, The Fall of Idols (1924) and The Meaning of Life (1926), in comparison with his earlier writings. A careful analysis of his reasoning suggests that this critique of the ideals of inner spiritual development and the creative construction of culture in The Fall of Idols is merely formal, and that in reality Frank's views changed little. Obvious contradictions are noted in The Meaning of Life regarding Frank's explicit condemnation of Tolstoy's position of “moral idealism” and his simultaneous implicit repetition of this position in his own views. It is concluded that, having recognized these contradictions, Frank, in his later religious and ethical works God with Us and Light in the Darkness, returns to the views of his youth, including a sharp critique of ecclesiastical Christianity.

AB - The article traces the changes in S.L. Frank's religious views after his expulsion from Russia, during his emigration. It examines the pre-revolutionary period of Frank's work, with his orientation toward I.G. Fichte's concept of true Christianity, based on the idea of the immanent presence of the God-Absolute, who lacks personal definition, in the human soul. Frank's philosophical system, as expounded in The Object of Knowledge (1915) and The Soul of Man (1917), is presented as an original version of the philosophical tradition of mystical pantheism. An analysis of Frank's early émigré views shows that the philosopher revised his religious worldview and truly deeply embraced Church Orthodoxy, which led to the contradictory nature and far less substantive character of his first émigré works, The Fall of Idols (1924) and The Meaning of Life (1926), in comparison with his earlier writings. A careful analysis of his reasoning suggests that this critique of the ideals of inner spiritual development and the creative construction of culture in The Fall of Idols is merely formal, and that in reality Frank's views changed little. Obvious contradictions are noted in The Meaning of Life regarding Frank's explicit condemnation of Tolstoy's position of “moral idealism” and his simultaneous implicit repetition of this position in his own views. It is concluded that, having recognized these contradictions, Frank, in his later religious and ethical works God with Us and Light in the Darkness, returns to the views of his youth, including a sharp critique of ecclesiastical Christianity.

KW - Fichte's true Christianity

KW - Gnosticism

KW - Neo-Hegelianism

KW - Neo-Kantianism

KW - Russian emigration

KW - S.L. Frank's religiosity

KW - mystical pantheism

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/66a36772-ce0f-32e8-8631-661865fd2bf6/

U2 - 10.17588/2076-9210.2026.3.114-130

DO - 10.17588/2076-9210.2026.3.114-130

M3 - статья

SP - 114

EP - 130

JO - СОЛОВЬЕВСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

JF - СОЛОВЬЕВСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

SN - 2076-9210

IS - 3

ER -