Thank you for transcribing this - reading it has been a truly electric experience. Berdyaev is describing everything I find foreign to my soul in the Russian Orthodox tradition, but also giving me a path forward to love it earnestly again.
Putting it on my wish list! What a blessing that more of his work is available in English these days.
My family and I converted to Orthodoxy several years ago after being totally smitten with its view of Cosmic redemption and the writings of the Cappodocians and St. Maximos the Confessor in particular. Yet our parish life has always been in theological tension with the "decadently humble."
Even simply to learn that this tension is not new and that it has clear historical lineage is tremendously comforting. Christ is risen!
Indeed He is risen! Yes, the Paris school -- all the emigre philosophers and theologians who established the Institut Saint-Serge after the Revolution -- is a wonderful place to go to explore the depths of the Russian religious renaissance and all the pathways it opens up.
Thank you for transcribing this - reading it has been a truly electric experience. Berdyaev is describing everything I find foreign to my soul in the Russian Orthodox tradition, but also giving me a path forward to love it earnestly again.
So glad to hear! He's extraordinary. "Spirit and Reality" was a book that saved my life once.
Putting it on my wish list! What a blessing that more of his work is available in English these days.
My family and I converted to Orthodoxy several years ago after being totally smitten with its view of Cosmic redemption and the writings of the Cappodocians and St. Maximos the Confessor in particular. Yet our parish life has always been in theological tension with the "decadently humble."
Even simply to learn that this tension is not new and that it has clear historical lineage is tremendously comforting. Christ is risen!
Indeed He is risen! Yes, the Paris school -- all the emigre philosophers and theologians who established the Institut Saint-Serge after the Revolution -- is a wonderful place to go to explore the depths of the Russian religious renaissance and all the pathways it opens up.