The Brightest Lights of the Silver Age: Essays on Russian Religious Thinkers by Berdyaev Nikolai

Author:Berdyaev, Nikolai [Berdyaev, Nikolai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Semantron Press
Published: 2017-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

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1 . First published in the magazine Russkaya mysl’ , July 1908.—Trans.

2 . Jam was one of Rozanov’s favorite treats.—Trans.

3 . Russian saying.—Trans.

4 . A Russian religious, philosophical, and literary magazine, founded in Petersburg 1902, which published important writers of the “Russian religious renaissance,” including Rozanov and Berdyaev.—Trans.

5 . The “Religious-Philosophical Meetings,” held in Petersburg in 1903–1904 and partly organized by Rozanov, were designed to promote encounters between religiously interested Russian writers and theologians and bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church.—Trans.

6 . Allusion to Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev (1840–1868), radical writer and social critic. Pisarev held that artists are nothing more than craftsmen whose labor satisfies the needs of society.—Trans.

7 . From War and Peace .—Trans.

8 . In order to see the erroneousness of the view that Christianity is hostile to the flesh of the world it is sufficient to read Justin the Philosopher, Irenaeus, and other apologists and teachers of the Church. It was Christianity that defended the flesh of the world and the earth against the spiritualistic negations formulated by Platonism, Gnosticism, etc.

9 . See the first essay in the present collection.—Trans.

10 . The fellowship of deified human beings.—Trans.

11 . See the first essay in the present collection.—Trans.

12 . See notes 4 and 5 above.—Trans.

13 . I do not deny, of course, that the path to the total fullness of the Universal Church lies through the historical Churches, through their sacraments.—A later note .

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