sobornost
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See also: sobornost'
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Russian собо́рность (sobórnostʹ).
Noun
sobornost (uncountable)
- (philosophy, theology) A unity of people in loving fellowship.
- 2004, James H Billington, Russia in Search of Itself, page 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, page 132:
- Sobornost signifies the essentially extrapersonal (supra-personal) and a-temporal nature of aesthetic consciousness.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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.
Translations
a unity of people in loving fellowship
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