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Das von außen inspirierte Gottesgefühl. Die Religionsphilosophie an der Moskauer Geistlichen Akademie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts
This paper is devoted to the controversy of the first theistic thinkers of the Moscow Theological Academy (F. Golubinskiy and V. Kudryavtsev-Platonov) with the philosophy of religion of the German idealists. Both Russian thinkers came under the influence of F. H. Jacobi. They defend the Orthodox world view; in addition, their apology of theism differs from the similar apology of the German theists. Firstly, the Russian theists must defend the supranaturalist doctrine of direct external divine action on the human soul. Secondly, they try to accommodate new philosophical ideas and concepts (foremost, the doctrine of religious sentiment) to the traditional “dogmatic” metaphysical tradition. These traits sets Russian speculative sentimental theism apart from the German philosophy of sentiment of faith and at the same time brings them close to the French Catholic philosophy of the 18–19th centuries.