The concept of God-manhood in V.S. Solovyov's philosophy as reception of the Christian dogmatic doctrine

In this article the concept God-manhood is considered as a dynamic religious philosophical formation that helps to analyse socio-cultural and existential experience of the historical dynamics in the notions of Christian mysticism and dogmatics. According to this understanding of the notion God-manhood the aim of the work is the analysis of the notion's reception from the Christian dogmatic doctrine into the Russian religious philosophy. The subject of the work is the formation of the notion God-manhood in V.S. Solovyov's philosophy. The author makes an attempt of the conceptual analysis of the notion Godmanhood from the formation of the dogmatic picture of the early East Christian theology based on the Holy Scripture and the materials of the 4 Ecumenical Council (Council of Chalcedon, founded in 451) till the common context of Russian religious philosophy (on the basis of the analysis of V.S. Solovyov's Lectures on God-manhood). The religious and philosophical development of the term God-manhood by the Church teachers in Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite's Divine Names is shown. There is also a comparative analysis of the ideas included in the concept God-manhood in V.S. Solovyov's philosophy and traditional Christian theology. The author of the article shows the topicality and value of the experience of Russian religious philosophy reflected in the concept God-manhood which should be taken into account while analysing the interaction of a person's free self-determination and standard forms of sociality. Understanding this experience helps to carry out philosophical reflection of the person's modern social activity.

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