Georges Florovsky


Georges Florovsky
Florovsky, c. 1920s
ChurchEastern Orthodox Church
Personal details
Born
Georgi Vasilievich Florovsky

(1893-09-09)September 9, 1893
DiedAugust 11, 1979(1979-08-11) (aged 85)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.

Georges Vasilievich Florovsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Флоро́вский; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1893 – August 11, 1979) was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, and historian.

Born in the Russian Empire, he spent his working life in Paris (1920–1949) and New York (1949–1979). With Sergei Bulgakov, Vladimir Lossky, Justin Popović and Dumitru Stăniloae he was one of the more influential Eastern Orthodox Christian theologians of the mid-20th century. He was particularly concerned that modern Christian theology might receive inspiration from the lively intellectual debates of the patristic traditions of the undivided Church rather than from later Scholastic or Reformation categories of thought.