Feofan Prokopovich: from theology to politics
Feofan Prokopovich: from theology to politics

Summary/Abstract: Prokopovich began his ecclesiastical career as a lecturer of the Kiev academy where he taught many subjects and left extensive lecture published posthumously in a multivolume Christianae orthodoxae theologiae. The paper presents some of his views concerning the defense of the authority of the Bible and the need for its literal interpretation; some positive characterizations of God’s attributes; the creation and the makeup of the world; the position of man in the universe; and the problem of eschatology. After Prokopovich was summoned by Peter I to St. Petersburg, he gradually abandoned theology and philosophy and concentrated on political issues and on justification of submitting the church to the power of the state. This culminated in the Spiritual regulation which spelled the end of an independent church in Russia.

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