The Ways of Post-Nietzsche Christianity

Abstract

The article’s autoress elaborates the concept of the Russian “postnietzschean Christianity” – that is “new religious mind” penetrated by the Nietzschean intuitions and ideas. Andrey Belyi developed Merezhkovsky’s notion of Nietzsche as the “new Christ” from the theosophical and the anthroposophical positions. Between 1910–1920 P. Florenskij elaborated the naturphilosophical theory of the world’s transformation into the immortal anthropomorphic “body” in course of the technical development and the sacring of natural substancies by the Church mysteries. The Florenskij’s doctrine of the cosmic man with his “will to power” over the world is the specifical version of the Nietzsche’s concept of “the superman”.