Spirituality Studies 9-2 Fall 2023 49 Ján Dolný, Róbert Lapko Ján Dolný, S.T.D. defended his doctoral dissertation in the area of systematic theology at the Catholic University of America in 2016. A Roman Catholic priest, Ján is collaborating with the Centre for the Study of the Biblical and Middle Eastern World in Košice, Slovakia. He can be reached at dolny.jan@abuke.sk. Prof. Róbert Lapko, ThD., PhD. defended his two doctoral dissertations in the area of Biblical Theology at Palacký University in Olomouc and Theory and History of Journalism at Catholic University in Ružomberok. He works as Senior Research Fellow in the Slavistic Institute of Ján Stanislav of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has moderated Centre for the Study of the Biblical and Middle Eastern World since its foundation. His email contact is robert.lapko@savba.sk. ←← Portrait of Vladimir S. Soloviev by Nikolai Yaroschenko, 1895. From the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. 1 Introduction Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev (1853–1900), one of the great intellectual figures and the founder of the modern religious philosophy in the 19th-century Russia, was a passionate advocate of the ecclesial reconciliation between Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodoxy [1]. In his work La Russie et l’Eglise universelle Soloviev presented a powerful apologetic of Rome as the center of the universal Church, and for many years he maintained lively contacts with Catholic leaders in European countries, especially in France and in Croatia. Based on his Catholic sympathies and his zeal for the restoration of ecclesial unity, Soloviev was already during his lifetime accused in Russia of transferring into the Roman Catholic Church. After his death, this has become a point of ongoing controversy, in which scholars representing the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church have claimed Soloviev as a full member of their respective ecclesial bodies [2]. The question that still lacks a complete answer is: fuitne Soloviev Catholicus [3] – “was Soloviev a Catholic”?
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