Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance

Georges Florovsky is the mastermind of a ''return to the Church Fathers'' in twentieth-century Orthodox theology. His theological vision-the neopatristic synthesis-became the main paradigm of Orthodox theology and the golden standard of Eastern Orthodox identity in the West. Focusing on Florovsky''s European period (1920-1948), this study analyses how Florovsky''s evolving interpretation of Russia...