Humanity and orthodoxy: archpriest George Florovsky - M.I. Lot-Borodina - N.A. Berdyaev

The study discusses the hermeneutic and dialogical context of anthropological thought by Archpriest George Florovsky, the famous Russian philosopher, historian, and orthodox theologian. This context was provided by M.I. Lot-Borodina, V.V. Zenkovsky, N.O. Lossky, and N.A. Berdyaev, the contemporaries of G. Florovsky, who focused on different problems. The study analyzes the controversial reviews of G. Florovsky’s works presented by M.I. Lot-Borodina and N.A. Berdyaev. The views of Archpriest George Florovsky on Russian Christianity and Western culture are oppositely interpreted. The research clarifies the value and semantic dominants of Florovsky’s anthropological thought that have been fundamentally developed in “Byzantine Fathers of the 5th-8th Centuries”, “Ways of Russian Theology” and other works of the philosopher.