The impact of Pietist and Anglican spirituality in Catherinian Russia: Works of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

Ivanov, Andrey V.

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The impact of Pietist and Anglican spirituality in Catherinian Russia: Works of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

Author(s)

Ivanov, Andrey V.

Issue Date

2017-11

Keyword(s)

• Russia
• Pietism
• Anglicanism
• Catherine the Great
• Orthodox Church
• devotion
• monasticism
• St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
• Johann Arndt
• Joseph Hall

Abstract

This article examines the impact of Protestant—particularly Pietist—spirituality on the works of St. Tikhon (1724-1783), the bishop of Voronezh and Zadonsk. Hailed as the paragon of Russia’s authentic spirituality (by nineteenth-century philosophers and church officials), St. Tikhon wrote deeply devotional literature for lay and clerical audiences alike. Although his writings arguably catalyzed the monastic revival in late eighteenth-century Russian Orthodoxy, they were deeply influenced by Protestant authors. Tikhon’s works borrowed heavily from the writings of Johann Arndt (1555-1621), an inspirer of German Pietism, in theology, style and content, and to a much lesser extent from the writings of the Anglican bishop Joseph Hall (1574-1656). Even though this article is not the first to mention such influence on St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, it documents—to the fullest extent available in the literature—the scope and depth of textual, thematic, stylistic and theological appropriation of Johann Arndt in Catherinian Russia, in the particular case of the bishop of Voronezh.

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ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, vol. 5

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text

Language

en

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• Copyright 2017 Andrey V. Ivanov
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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