Nogovitsin, O. N. Political conservatism and anti-messianism of V.V. Rozanov: Old and New Testament in his commentary on In Iud. hom. 2–3 by John Chrysostom. In: Russian Logos — 2: Modernity — Limits of Control. Materials of the international philosophical conference, St. Petersburg, September 25–28, 2019 - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen, 2019. P. 222–226.

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The present speaker paper is dedicated to the critical problematization whereby V.V. Rozanov has treated the concepts of New Testament Christianity. It is his political conservatism that has found its brightest expression in such position, being mainly focused in sharp anti-messianism of the criticism of statutory form of Church Christianity promoted by him. By that, we also suggest that, in spite of all the eccentricity of Rozanov’s conservatism, where he seems to have passed in his judgemets all the limits of critically destroying the very basics of not only corporate structure of Russian Orthodox Church but also those of religious practice and metaphysics of Christianity as a whole, which are allowable for a conservative thinker, Rozanov's attitude distinctively manifests the ontological grounds of Russian and, wider, European conservatism. In the paper, the views of Rozanov on interconnection between Old and New Testaments, as well as on the logic of the Law and the logic of evangelical revelation are considered in the mentioned problematic area. The analysis is performed over Rozanov’s commentaries on John Chrysostom In Iud. hom. 2–3, with other religious and philosophical writings of Rozanov involved. The formal aspects, according to which Rosanov maintains his line of reasoning, are paid special attention.