sobornost

religious concept

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contributions by Slavophiles

  • In Slavophile

    …theology (with Khomyakov’s theory of sobornost, a spiritual unity and religious community based on a free commitment to Orthodoxy), Russian history, and folklore.

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development by Khomyakov

  • Khomyakov, engraving by Ivan Pozhalostin, 1879
    In Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov

    …system the key term was sobornost, a word with a number of broad translations, among them “togetherness” and “symphony.” This word, in the Slavonic version of the Nicene Creed, corresponds to “catholic.” It does not, however, mean “universal” but denotes a perfect organic fellowship of redeemed people united by faith…

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