Terms vs Sobornost - What's the difference?
terms | sobornost |
(philosophy, theology) A unity of people in loving fellowship.
*2004 , James H Billington, Russia in Search of Itself , p. 146:
*:Some post-Soviet writers see sobornost’ as a – if not the – defining element in giving distinctiveness to Russian civilization.
*2007 , Paul Haffner, Mystery of the Church , p. 132:
*:Sobornost signifies the essentially extrapersonal (supra-personal) and a-temporal nature of aesthetic consciousness.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 851:
*:Key to his thought was a concept which has become central to modern Russian Orthodox thinking, Sobornost’ , the proposition that freedom is inseparable from unity, communion or community.
