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Work #1241 · Mid

Lectures on Divine Humanity

Vladimir Solovyov
1878-81 (lectures), 1881-84 (published) · Russian
Lecture series / Religious-philosophical treatise · Russian religious philosophy / Sophiology

Solovyov's 1878-81 St. Petersburg lectures — divine humanity (Bogochelovechestvo) as integrating philosophical-religious framework

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Attribute Lectures on Divine Humanity (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Lectures on Divine Humanity

The 1878-81 St. Petersburg lectures moment; the broader cosmic-historical time of divine humanity.

Space

Lectures on Divine Humanity

The St. Petersburg lecture-hall setting; the broader Russian religious-philosophical conversation.

Matter

Lectures on Divine Humanity

The embodied human community as participating in divine humanity.

Observer

Lectures on Divine Humanity

Solovyov as proper Russian religious-philosophical theorist.

Energy

Lectures on Divine Humanity

The intellectual-religious-mystical energies of mid-Solovyov work.

Information

Lectures on Divine Humanity

The twelve-lecture content of divine humanity.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Lectures on Divine Humanity

The Lectures on Divine Humanity have been variously assessed — defenders see foundational Russian religious-philosophical achievement, Orthodox-traditional critics worry about specific sophiological-philosophical innovations; the 1935 Moscow Patriarchate decree condemned subsequent Bulgakov sophiology.