sobornost

alternative sobornost'

1. uncountablehuman sciencesA unity of people in loving fellowship.

   Sobornost signifies the essentially extrapersonal (supra-personal) and a-temporal nature of aesthetic consciousness.

   2007, Paul Haffner, Mystery of the Church, page 132

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   Some post-Soviet writers see sobornost’ as a – if not the – defining element in giving distinctiveness to Russian civilization.

   2004, James H Billington, Russia in Search of Itself, page 146

   Key to his thought was a concept which has become central to modern Russian Orthodox thinking, Sobornost’, the proposition that freedom is inseparable from unity, communion or community.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 851