We need a new historical narrative on Kyivan theological tradition, Paul Gavrilyuk

"Kyiv Theological Tradition in Georges Florovsky's Ways of Russian Theology: A Critical Assessment" by Father Deacon Dr. Paul Gavrilyuk, University of Toronto, 8 May 2014.

Georges Florovsky "The Ways of Russian Theology". Failed to sufficiently understand the distinctiveness of the Kyivan theological tradition because he took the narrative of Russian imperial history for granted.
1:17 Unique features of the Kyivan theological tradition. Florovsky family background.
1:45 Georges Florovsky born in 1893, youth spent in Odesa, Ukraine. Ancestors on father's side were Russian, on mother's side Ukrainian. Georges Florovsky family background
3:20 Ukrainian intellectual history
3:45 Florovsky was a founding father of the Eurasian movement. Eurasian ideology postulated a unity of the peoples of Asia and peoples of eastern Europe based on common historical, geographic and religious factors
4:10 Post revolutionary diaspora
4:55 Movement infiltrated by Stalin's secret police
5:20 Putin's project of Eurasian union
5:40 Soul of the Russian nation
6:10 Historical destiny of Kyivan-Rus', Ukrainian history
6:40 Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Byzantine influences
7:20 Union of Brest 1596 (Берестейська унія) an anomaly, schism
7:48 Western Protestant and Catholic schools of the 16th century
8:00 Byzantine Orthodox identity. Damming assessment of Petro Mohyla (Петро Могила): Kyiv Mohyla Academy is "A Latin and Latinising school system"
9:10 Central Ukraine politically dominated by Poland. Jesuit paradigm. Ukrainian Baroque. Ukrainian religious consciousness.
10:00 Florovsky criticized the most outstanding representative of Ukrainian baroque, Hryhorii Skovoroda (Gregory Skovoroda) (Григорій Сковорода), for his allegorical, not historic, reading of scripture
10:15 West European educational standards, western patterns of thought spread to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Only a return to the church fathers could liberate Orthodox theology from western captivity
11:15 Nuclear bomb on Kyivan tradition
11:53 Scheme ignored the ethnic distinctiveness of the eastern Slavs, especially Ukrainians, construed the Muscovite kingdom as politically and ethnically continuous of Kyivan-Rus'
13:10 Iconography, architecture, church music, etc. heavily influenced by Christian West from 16th-19th century
14:10 Eastern rite Catholicism. Westernization of Orthodoxy, Orientalization of Catholicism continue in Ukraine to this day. Crosspolinization
15:00 Myhailo Hrushevsky (Михайло Грушевський)
17:50 Kyivan theological tradition does not need to purify itself of its western influences in order to be authentically Orthodox. Orthodoxy is a universal faith, not an Oriental peculiarity. Christian west is a strength, not a compromise.
18:50 Kyivan theological tradition does not have to become an antithesis of everything coming out of Russia theologically. Consolidating tradition but subtraction is a mistake. Rather a Kyivan theological tradition by addition. For example, Nikolai Berdyaev, etc. should be treated as contributors to the Kyivan theological tradition.
19:53 Future of Kyivan theological tradition is impossible without a sustained reflection on its past. We need a new historical book and narrative on the Kyivan theological tradition.
20:55 Maidan was important theologically

СИМПОЗІУМ 2014
Українське православ'я в світовій спільноті Православних церков: минуле, сьогодення та майбутнє

SYMPOSIUM 2014
Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the Global Family of Orthodox Churches: Past, Present and Future

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Ukrainian Self-Reliance Association
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Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
Українська Православна Церква в Канаді
L'Église orthodoxe ukrainienne du Canada
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Історія України, Київська Русь, Християнства в Україні, Хрещення Русі, Східне християнство, Українська православна церква, Київський патріархат, Філарет, церква, History of Ukraine, Kyivan Rus', History of Christianity in Ukraine, Eastern Christianity, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret