06 — The Western Question

The flagship both-sides section of this collection: St. Tikhon’s documented engagement with Johann Arndt’s True Christianity and Joseph Hall’s occasional meditations, and the unresolved historiographical debate over what it means — Florovsky’s “Western captivity” frame (with his warm particular verdict on Tikhon), Gorodetzky’s forms-not-substance defense, and Ivanov’s textual scholarship that deepens the evidence while declining the captivity framework. Positions are named; nothing is adjudicated.

The first file confines itself to the documentary record; the second sets out the evaluative debate under METHODOLOGY §4.2, with the confessional boundary of §4.1 stated: no party disputes the saint’s Orthodoxy — the debate concerns the genealogy of his idiom.

Files

File	Description
arndt-and-hall.md	The documented engagement: Todorskii’s 1735 Arndt, the title-echo, Hall in Latin, Ivanov’s collation and the Sluchai parallel
florovsky-and-his-critics.md	The debate: pseudomorphosis, the forms/substance defense, the cross-confessional reframe — named, sourced, unadjudicated

See Also

• 05 — The Writings — the corpus under discussion
• 01 — The Russia of His Birth — the Latin schools behind the question
• 09 — Legacy — the triad comparison in which the question recurs
• Collection README — the master guide