Man in Secular and Church History Studies: Seminar held by the Church History Department of St. Philaret’s Christian Orthodox Institute

The participants in the seminar consider from different perspectives the issue of man in secular and church history. Yulia Balakshina focuses on the new approaches to the role of person in history in the age of “big narratives” collapsing. Grigory Goutner analyses Heidegger’s concept of correlation between man and history. Vitaly Cherkasov addresses the philosophical understanding of man and history in Karl Jaspers’ works. The final presentation by the Rev. Prof. Georgy Kochetkov opens new theological approaches to this issue. The participants set their sights on the strategies of personal standing tall as well as on the practices by which people make themselves personalities, despite the pressure of the totalitarian states in the XXth century