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The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters
Столп и утверждение истины. Опыт православной феодицеи в двенадцати письмах
His capital work, published by Put in 1914. Twelve letters to a friend — doubt, the Trinity, the light of truth, the Comforter, contradiction, sin, Gehenna, the creature, Sophia, friendship and jealousy — with extensive mathematical, philological and iconographic appendices. It holds that truth is reached by living religious experience rather than deduction; that dogma is antinomic; that the Trinity is the foundation of all truth; that Sophia is the root of creation; and that friendship, the 'we' of two, is the cell of the Church. It influenced Bulgakov and Losev and was criticised by Berdyaev and Florovsky.
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English
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth
Princeton University Press, 2004
Translation: Boris Jakim
ISBN 9780691117676
Rústica
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth
Princeton University Press, 1997
Translation: Boris Jakim
ISBN 0691032432
Introducción de Richard F. Gustafson
Русский
Pavel Florensky
Столп и утверждение истины
The Conscious LibraryСтолп и утверждение истины
Put, Moscú, 1914
Primera edición completa
Pavel Florensky
Столп и утверждение истины
The Conscious LibraryСтолп и утверждение истины
YMCA-Press, París, 1989
ISBN 2850651567
Reimpresión
Pavel Florensky
Столп и утверждение Истины
The Conscious LibraryСтолп и утверждение Истины
Akademicheski proekt, Moscú, 2021
ISBN 9785829121068
Ed. igumeno Andronik (Trubachov)
Français
Pavel Florensky
La Colonne et le fondement de la vérité
The Conscious LibraryLa Colonne et le fondement de la vérité
L'Âge d'Homme, 1994
ISBN 9782825104897
Español
La columna y el fundamento de la verdad
Ediciones Sígueme, 2010
ISBN 9788430117284
Deutsch
Säule und Sockel der Wahrheit
Books on Demand, 2021
ISBN 9783754328965
Other works by Pavel Florensky
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- On the Symbols of Infinity (An Essay on the Ideas of G. Cantor) · 1904
- On One Premise of a Worldview · 1904
- Spiritualism as Anti-Christianity · 1904
- The Cry of Blood · 1906
- Salt of the Earth: A Narrative on the Life of the Elder of Gethsemane Skete, Hieromonk Abba Isidore · 1909
- Anthony of the Novel and Anthony of Tradition · 1907
- The Author of Life · 1907
- Joy Forever · 1907
- In the Eternal Azure · 1907
- The Cosmological Antinomies of Immanuel Kant · 1909
- The Universal Human Roots of Idealism · 1909
- On Spiritual Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy · 1912
- The Meaning of Idealism · 1914
- Reason and Dialectic · 1914
- Articles on the Beilis Case · 1913
- Did Not Count It Robbery (Towards a Judgement on Mysticism) · 1916
- Around Khomyakov: Critical Notes · 1916
- The Reduction of Numbers · 1916
- To My Children: Memories of Days Past · 1992
- The Philosophy of Cult · 1977
- The Trinity–St Sergius Lavra and Russia · 1919
- Reverse Perspective · 1919
- Celestial Signs (On the Symbolism of Colours) · 1919
- The Church Ritual as a Synthesis of the Arts · 1918
- Iconostasis · 1922
- Imaginaries in Geometry · 1922
- The Analysis of Spatiality and Time in Works of Representational Art · 1925
- Dielectrics and Their Technical Application · 1924
- Articles on electrical engineering in Elektrichestvo · 1923
- Articles in the Technical Encyclopedia · 1934
- At the Watersheds of Thought · 1990
- Names · 1926
- Onomatodoxy as a Philosophical Premise · 1922
- Christianity and Culture · 1923
- The Supposed State Structure of the Future · 1933
- Oro: A Lyrical Poem · 1935
- Letters from the Far East and Solovki · 1998
- Correspondence · 2004
- Works in Four Volumes · 1994
- Early Religious Writings, 1903–1909 · 2017
- At the Crossroads of Science & Mysticism · 2014
Sources
- Florenski, P. A. Столп и утверждение истины. Опыт православной феодицеи в двенадцати письмах [La columna y el fundamento de la verdad]. Moscú: Put, 1914. Texto en Azbuka.
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