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The Religion of the Slavophiles
Slavophiles, Westernizers, and the East-West Dichotomy There are few civilizational and cultural gulfs quite like the divide between Russia and the West. It has remained a source of polemical rhetoric and hopeful visions of reunification in recent decades, but the genesis of the East-West divergence spans centuries, profoundly emerging in the wake of the Petrine…
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The Way is the Word
Recovering the lost memory of God and eyes to see Him I’ve been writing weekly essays on theories of religion and, more recently, mystical texts for about a year now. What follows is part formal summary, part exploration. I’ll indicate when the shift occurs. While the summary specifically looks at the comparisons and contrasts between…
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Under the Paschal Light pt. ii
The Anti-Liturgy of Pessimism Last week we looked at philosophical pessimism in the West and how its assumptions infiltrate and shape the social imaginary, a term used by philosopher Charles Taylor to describe deep-seated intuitions of a people embedded within their culture. While philosophical pessimism remains a niche worldview, its presuppositions have broadly permeated the…
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Romanticism, Slavophilism, and the Philosophy of Division
A follow-up to the “Messiah or Mouthpiece?” series The transition from Romanticism to Slavophilism in 19th-century Russia shaped the nation’s collective consciousness, fostering a search for a uniquely Russian identity grounded in Orthodoxy. In contrast to Romanticism’s fragmentation of spiritual authority in the Protestant West, Russian Romanticism provided a philosophical framework for reclaiming Orthodoxy as…
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Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. ii
Concerning presentism and biblical criticism “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power” (Col. 2:8-10). Germany was…
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