Czesław Miłosz’s “Theological treatise” in the context of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s religious worldview

The article investigates a religious and philosophical dialogue of Miłosz and Dostoevsky. The antinomic content of Miłosz's poem “Theological Treatise” is analyzed in the context of Dostoevsky's Christocentric worldview, as well as religious and heretical teachings of early Christianity, w...

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Autor principal:	Leonid A. Maltsev
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Publicado:	Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 2021
Materias:	miłosz theological treatise dostoevsky mickiewicz swedenborg böhme manichaeism apoсatastasis Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:da36a862c94444aab9bea3b647a1acfc2021-11-24T12:29:13ZCzesław Miłosz’s “Theological treatise” in the context of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s religious worldview10.5922/2225-5346-2021-4-62225-53462686-8989https://doaj.org/article/da36a862c94444aab9bea3b647a1acfc2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.kantiana.ru/slovo/4958/31230/https://doaj.org/toc/2225-5346https://doaj.org/toc/2686-8989The article investigates a religious and philosophical dialogue of Miłosz and Dostoevsky. The antinomic content of Miłosz's poem “Theological Treatise” is analyzed in the context of Dostoevsky's Christocentric worldview, as well as religious and heretical teachings of early Christianity, which aroused Milosz's interest throughout his career. In their works, Dostoevsky and Miłosz explored the theological problem of apoсatastasis and offered their interpretation of it. The paper also examines Miłosz’s contribution as an essayist to the comparative study of Dostoevsky's works (Dostoevsky — Mickiewicz and Dostoevsky — Swedenborg). The ideological basis of “Theological Treatise” is the dialectical relationship between faith and truth, which is associated with Miłosz's appeal to Dostoevsky's ‘creed’ from his famous letter to Fonvisina. Like Dostoevsky, Miłosz criticizes the natural-scientific concept of truth in its depersonalized and, therefore, dehumanized version, which seems to the author of “Theological Treatise” as an instrument of ‘devilish theology’. In a dialogue with the traditions of Russian religious philosophy, and above all with Dostoevsky’s legacy, Miłosz turns to the Apocalypse, in which the most aesthetically significant the idea for him is that of restoring paradisiacal existence. However, unlike Dostoevsky, the concept of life after death in “Theological Treatise” is not free from pessimism and skepticism. Miłosz is inclined towards the ideological paradigm of the West, and the concept of “Theological Treatise” includes the ideas of Dostoevsky's unbelieving heroes.Leonid A. MaltsevImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal Universityarticlemiłosztheological treatisedostoevskymickiewiczswedenborgböhmemanichaeismapoсatastasisPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENRUСлово.ру: балтийский акцент , Vol 12, Iss 4, Pp 107-122 (2021)
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description	The article investigates a religious and philosophical dialogue of Miłosz and Dostoevsky. The antinomic content of Miłosz's poem “Theological Treatise” is analyzed in the context of Dostoevsky's Christocentric worldview, as well as religious and heretical teachings of early Christianity, which aroused Milosz's interest throughout his career. In their works, Dostoevsky and Miłosz explored the theological problem of apoсatastasis and offered their interpretation of it. The paper also examines Miłosz’s contribution as an essayist to the comparative study of Dostoevsky's works (Dostoevsky — Mickiewicz and Dostoevsky — Swedenborg). The ideological basis of “Theological Treatise” is the dialectical relationship between faith and truth, which is associated with Miłosz's appeal to Dostoevsky's ‘creed’ from his famous letter to Fonvisina. Like Dostoevsky, Miłosz criticizes the natural-scientific concept of truth in its depersonalized and, therefore, dehumanized version, which seems to the author of “Theological Treatise” as an instrument of ‘devilish theology’. In a dialogue with the traditions of Russian religious philosophy, and above all with Dostoevsky’s legacy, Miłosz turns to the Apocalypse, in which the most aesthetically significant the idea for him is that of restoring paradisiacal existence. However, unlike Dostoevsky, the concept of life after death in “Theological Treatise” is not free from pessimism and skepticism. Miłosz is inclined towards the ideological paradigm of the West, and the concept of “Theological Treatise” includes the ideas of Dostoevsky's unbelieving heroes.
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title	Czesław Miłosz’s “Theological treatise” in the context of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s religious worldview
title_short	Czesław Miłosz’s “Theological treatise” in the context of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s religious worldview
title_full	Czesław Miłosz’s “Theological treatise” in the context of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s religious worldview
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Czesław Miłosz’s “Theological treatise” in the context of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s religious worldview

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