Apocatastasis in Russian religious and philosophical thought of 1870–1930s. Article three. Apologists for the holistic ideal. An idea of universal salvation in works by Soviet philosophers A.K. Gorskii, N.A. Setnitskii, V.N. Murav’ev, D.L. Andreev

Abstract

The article continues the research on the interpretation of apocatastasis concept in Russian philosophical tradition. The works of A.K. Gorskii, N.A. Setnitskii, V.N. Murav’ev, the philosophers who were the key figures of Christian religious cosmism, are viewed in the light of universality / non-universality of the salvation. An idea of apocatastasis is explained differently in works of the thinkers. Setnitskii includes it into his “holistic ideal” concept opposing the “false multiplicity” of “fractional ideals”, while Gorskii feeds it with the Solov’ev idea of “universal synergy” and Murav’ev in his turn uses this idea as the foundation for his conception of the the Church, embracing the whole being. However despite all the differences, three philosophers develop and deepen the active apocalyptics concept and viewing The Revelationof St. John the Divine as both an apocatastic course of history and an integral plan of transforming the Earth and the Universe into the God Kingdom. The idea of apocatastasis also permeates D. Andreev’s works (1940–1950s) and reaches its peak in The Rose of Peaceand Iron mystery: the transformation of «suffering» into «purgatoring», Shadanakar’s enlightenment, Gagtungre’s salvation, co-creation with God.