Father Lev Gillet (1893–1980): A Godliness of Paradox

by Michael Plekon


Father Lev Gillet devoted his life to the ecumenical renewal of the Church, working alongside some of the most important Orthodox theologians and churchmen of the twentieth century: Father Sergii Bulgakov, Paul Evdokimov, Vladimir Lossky, Metropolitan Evlogy, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, and Bishop Kallistos Ware. Yet even among these famous friends and colleagues, he stood out as a person of godliness of a special kind…

Michael Plekon

The Very Rev. Michael Plekon is an emeritus professor of sociology and religious studies at the City University of New York–Baruch College. He has been a Carmelite friar and a priest in both the Western and Eastern church. He is a prolific writer and editor, and  author of works on Kierkegaard, Thomas Merton, the Russian emigre theologians in Paris between the wars as well as contemporary persons of faith. 

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