Kurginyan: The world is God-forsaken for Protestants, but not for Russians

10.04.2021, Moscow.

The difference between Orthodox and Protestant civilizations is rooted in the view of the world as being forsaken by God, said the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist Sergey Kurginyan on April 5 on the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program on Russia One channel.

The fundamental difference between Protestant and Orthodox Christian civilization is the idea of whether the world is forsaken by God or not, noted Kurginyan. “Right here, right now, in this world – in this glass of water, in these trees – is God there? Or has God left the world and gone off to who knows where, which means the world is God-forsaken, and anyone can have its way with it as he pleases?” – explained the political scientist.

We can’t even imagine how this abstract and hard to grasp thesis changes everything – it changes the essence of civilization, changes its way of existence, changes the language, mentality, how it goes into the depths of the human personality,” emphasized Kurginyan.

Protestants believe that God is somewhere far off, not in this world, while to the Russian civilization God is always present, always here.

The sense that spirituality is present and surrounds us, or, as they say in science, the immanent and the transcendental are connected, and the transcendental is present in the immanent (the transcendental is the spiritual), it is here, in a birch grove permeated with sunlight. And this will not disappear from the Russian soul,” believes the leader of the Essence of Time movement.

According to Kurginyan, the issue of the death of God is resolved in the West – that God is absent from the world. “Whether they called it pantheism, according to a Russian philosopher Lev Karsavin, or something else, there is still a huge difference,” concluded the political scientist.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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