Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Deification in the Greek Patristic Era
2: Deification in the Long Nineteenth Century
3: Deification and political theology: Merezhkovsky, Gippius, Filosofov, Tsar and Revolution (1907)
4: Deification and creativity: Nikolai Berdiaev, The Meaning of Creativity (1916)
5: Deification and economics: Sergei Bulgakov, The Philosophy of Economy (1912)
6: Deification and asceticism: Pavel Florensky, The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (2014)
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

Ruth Coates is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian Studies at the University of Bristol. She held a Laming Junior Fellowship from Queen's College Oxford, then Temporary Lectureships at the University of Manchester and the School of Slavonic Studies in London. She is the author of Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author (1998) and co-editor of Landmarks Revisited: The Vekhi Symposium 100 Years On (with Robin Aizlewood; 2013).

Reviews

Ruth Coates has written a book that without exaggeration must be called a jewel ... This is a short work which will repay repeated reading. It will prove to be a landmark in our understanding of the manifold ways in which deification was interpreted in Russia's silver age.
*Andrew Louth, Journal of Ecclesiastical History*

It is difficult to find fault with Coates's impressive account of how and why deification took the various forms it did in late imperial Russia.
*Patrick Lally Michelson, Indiana University, Slavonic and East European Review*