«Жизнь Иисуса» Эрнеста Ренана в России XIX в.

Tatiana V. Chumakova

doi:10.21638/spbu17.2024.414

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Tatiana V. Chumakova St. Petersburg State University, 7–9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5672-4695

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https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.414

Abstract

The subject of the article is the reception of Life of Jesus by E.Renan in Russian culture of the nineteenth century. The book, written by a French Orientalist and philosopher, has occupied the minds not only of learned theologians, but also almost the entire Russian reading public since its publication in France in 1863. In Russia, it was printed for the first time in 1906, forty-three years after its publication books in France. Despite censorship bans, Life of Jesus has become well known to Russian readers since 1863, and had a powerful influence on writers (F.M.Dostoevsky, L.N.Tolstoy, etc.), theologians, and produced a serious turn in Russian painting. The book attracted the attention of many educated people. In the most part of egodocuments (memoirs, diaries) of the second half of the nineteenth century there were references to Life of Jesus. By shifting the emphasis to the human nature in Christ, Renan sought to prove that the image of Christ had a universal and timeless meaning, it personified the moral choice of a person waging an eternal struggle against evil. As well as in France, the attitude towards that work by E.Renan in Russia was ambiguous. The main complaints against the book were connected not only to the fact that the work was anti-clerical in its essence, but also that it was amateurish; critics stated that only the elegant style made the text so popular. But all the complaints about this work do not negate the main point: the book provoked powerful public interest to the topic of the ‘historical Christ’ in Russia, which went far beyond the boundaries of both theological and scholarly discourse.

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