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  • Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky

    …essay on theodicy entitled “The Pillar and the Ground of Truth,” in which he argued that only through nonrational, intuitive experience could a person become consubstantial with all of creation and thus encounter God’s reality and understand God’s truth. According to Florensky, rationalistic analysis separates man from creation because it…

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    …essay on theodicy entitled “The Pillar and the Ground of Truth,” in which he argued that only through nonrational, intuitive experience could a person become consubstantial with all of creation and thus encounter God’s reality and understand God’s truth. According to Florensky, rationalistic analysis separates man from creation because it…

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