An existential philosopher and Orthodox intellectual.
When this seminal essay was published in 1926, it ignited discussion about freedom of conscience in Orthodox life. It remains a key point of reference for nearly all Orthodox thinkers wrestling with this issue. The essay was originally written in the context of a sharp disagreement in the émigré Russian Church that led on the[…..]
On September 7, 1935, the Moscow Patriarchate delivered an ukaz against the sophiology of Father Sergii Bulgakov. On October 30, a similar condemnation was published by the Russian Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), headquartered in Serbia, except this time Bulgakov’s teaching was labeled not simply “foreign” to Orthodoxy but outright heretical.
The Christian world does not know Orthodoxy well. It knows only the external and, for the most part, negative features of the Orthodox Church, while her inner spiritual treasures remain unknown. For a long time Orthodoxy was locked inside itself; it did not have a spirit of evangelism and did not reveal itself to the[…..]
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