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The Meaning of Love (Library of Russian Philosophy)
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 The Meaning of Love (Library of Russian Philosophy)
Vladimir Solovyov
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"Solovyov's book, I would dare say, IS the philosophy of love. Solovyov's arguments are engaging, to say the least: engaging the intellect, but also the depths of the reader's being. You can't say that about many books. The highest praise I can offer is that The Meaning of Love is the only modern book I know of that is worthy of its subject in every respect."-David Fiedler, Gnosis Magazine "The meaning and worth of love as a feeling is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for another the same absolute significance that, because of the power of egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important, not only as one of our feelings but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very center of our lives.... " "The meaning of human love, speaking generally, is the justification and salvation of individuality through the sacrifice of egoism. On this general basis we can also ... explain the meaning of sexual love" (Vladimir Solovyov) What is the meaning of love's intense emotion? Solovyov points to the spark of divinity that we see in another human being and shows how this "living ideal of Divine love, antecedent to our love, contains in itself the secret of the idealization of our love." According to Solovyov, love between men and women has a key role to play in the mystical transfiguration of the world. Love, which allows one person to find unconditional completion in another, becomes an evolutionary strategy for overcoming cosmic disintegration.

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5 out of 5 stars Solovyov, transference and the Grail search........2002-11-24

If you are searching for the Grail in the mystical experience of love and the transference, this is the book for you. The title says it all. Solovyov explores and uncovers the reason there is such archetypal emotional power in love even though the divine, cosmic source is not consciously recognized and understood. It is the failure to recognize the source behind the emotion which results in such tragic disillusion and despair. Finding the true source can be - should be life transforming.
The Crisis of Western Philosophy: (Against the Positivists) (Esalen Institute/Lindisfarne Press Library of Russian Philosophy)
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    Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov: Orthodox Theology in a New Key
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    		 Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov: Orthodox Theology in a New Key
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    The Russian school of modern Orthodox theology has made an immense but undervalued contribution to Christian thought. This groundbreaking study introduces the Russian school through the life and thought of three of its greatest thinkers, each representing a generation—Aleksandr Bukharev (1824-1871), Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1901), and Father Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944).

    Author Paul Valliere provides biographical sketches and historical background on these Russian-school thinkers. The primary concern of the book, however, is with the thought of each theologian. Working almost exclusively from Russian language primary sources, Valliere explores the many creative ideas devised or adapted by the Russian school, such as the humanity of God, kenotic christology, sophiology, panhumanity, free theocracy, church-and-world dogmatics, and prophetic ecumenism. Offering the first account in English of Bukharev's thought and the most complete analysis of Bulgakov's dogmatic theology, this volume is the best study of Russian theology now available.

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    5 out of 5 stars Coming out of the winter..........2004-01-14

    Paul Valliere states that the study of modern Russian theology through the works of Bukharev, Soloviev, and Bulgakov gives a representative view of early, middle and late periods. The Russian Orthodox theologians began the approach to modernity much earlier than others in the Orthodox world; as such, they were pioneers, without guides. Interrupted by the Soviet experiment, it has only been in the past few decades that the work of such theologians has again come to the forefront.

    Valliere states that Bukharev was Russian Orthodoxy's first modern theologian, but that he was building on the work of early philosophers and thinkers. It was Bukharev, however, who brought the problem of modernity into the church context - Bukharev's education was fairly typical of Russian Orthodox clerics, without great exposure to the body of ideas from Western sources as the other thinkers would undoubtedly have had. Also, Bukharev's thought was through Orthodoxy, not as a dispassionate and separate system, but as 'the' system.

    Soloviev represents a middle point, not merely on a chronological scale, but also because he is a mediator of sorts between Russian Orthodoxy and modern critical thought. Soloviev was not a student or disciple of Bukharev, yet there is a resonance at the core of their ideas, expressed in different ways, Soloviev's the more modern and sophisticated philosophically.

    Bulgakov, on the other hand, did have a direct association with Soloviev - they were not colleagues or collaborators, but rather Bulgakov belonged to the generation of thinkers inspired by Soloviev's ideas and methods. Bulgakov, raised in an Orthodox clerical family, threw off for a time this calling for more secular pursuits (he became a first-rate economist), until eventually accepting ordination in the fateful time at the end of the first world war, when the modern Russian Orthodox theological school was effectively at an end, or at least in a deep hibernation until the late twentieth century.

    This text is not a history, or a biography, or a literature survey, although it contains elements of each of these areas. What Valliere does is to trace out the development of theological content in the Russian Orthodox theological encounter with modernity, from its beginnings to the last days immediately prior to the Soviet revolution. In his final chapter, Valliere looks at the developments after Bulgakov, who had no direct heirs in the dogmatic theological task. Other Russian exiles and interested persons of the West helped to keep the memory of this school (and other Eastern European intellectual endeavours) alive; important persons such as Schmemann and Meyendorf (both of whom were teachers of this author, Paul Valliere) have brought Orthodoxy into the Western view; perhaps inevitably, the influences of the West were going to be felt and become shaping and interpreting forces on the theological school in exile, even as it returns to Mother Russia.

    There is an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources; one needs a familiarity with Russian for many of the references, as Valliere works largely from original texts. He offers his own translations, some of which are at odds with more standard conventions - he explains some of his concerns with traditional translation and his own methods in the introduction

    This is a fascinating work, introducing ideas that may seem at first obscure and difficult to grasp, yet show a side of Christendom both foreign and familiar to those in the Anglo-Catholic-Protestant West. Valliere's style is academic, and one might be forgiven for feeling that one has wandered into a Tolstoi or Dostoevsky novel at times due to the names and places (and, occasionally, the narrative of the lives of the theologians). However, for the theologically adventurous and historically curious, this is a good introduction to a school of thought that promises to influence the newly-freed Orthodox churches in the vast lands of Russia, and for that reason (if no other) it is worthy of consideration for those in the West who wish to understand them.
    Vladimir Solov'ev: Reconciler and Polemicist: Selected Papers of the International Vladimir Solov'ev Conference Held at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in S (Eastern Christian Studies)
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    		 Vladimir Solov'ev: Reconciler and Polemicist: Selected Papers of the International Vladimir Solov'ev Conference Held at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in S (Eastern Christian Studies)

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    5 out of 5 stars Solov'ev in renewed Contexts.......2005-05-23

    Vladimir Solov'ev: Reconciler and Polemicist by International Vladimir Solov'ev Conference, William Peter Van Den Bercken, Manon De Courten, Evert Van Der Zweerde (Peeters) Vladimir Solov'ëv (1853-1900) is regarded as the most original and systematic of the Russian philosophers in the 19th century. Ηe has once again become the subject of international scholarly attention both in Slavic countries and the West. This volume contains selected papers pre¬sented at the international conference on Vladimir Solov'ëv held at Nijmegen University, The Netherlands, in September 1998. The scope of this conference was wide-ranging, dealing with theological, metaphysical, philosophical and historical themes.
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    5 out of 5 stars Russia's heart and soul.......2007-06-22

    Reading Soloviev's plea to his fellow Russians at the end of the 19th century to draw out and develop their own culture independent of Western influences appears now as a cry unheeded which should have been. Looking at Russias history durning the last century up into the present it seems fairly obvious how little Russia has been able to take it's own course either by outside pressure from the West, pressure from within which desires it to be Westernized, or a combination of the two. Soloviev shows how the West has fallen to the three temptations which Christ faced and was able to stand up against and while doing so advancing. While Russia has not fallen totally to such temptations but has remained static. Soloviev unfolds a positive, divine following, course Russia can take that would contrast and help overcome the negative, divine neglecting, course taken by the West. Reading this gave me a new appreciation of what Russia holds in itself if it were allowed to flourish unhinderred and by extension how other cultures too could bring much more to humanity as a whole if they were helped to find their own way of life, that best suits their character, rather than having a "best" way of doing things.

    5 out of 5 stars Incredibly Persuasive.......2005-04-10

    This is the first book by Solovyev that I have read, and also the first by an Orthodox Sophiologist. It is intellectually thorough, honest, and complete. I am absolutely impressed with it. The author begins by acknowledging the failures of materialism, rationalism, capitalism and it's excessively individualist tendencies, and leads us step by step to the spiritual realm and how much we depend on it. He does not try to sever Christianity from it's roots in hellenistic philosophy, but integrates the two in a most beautiful and consistent way. I have to say that his arguments in favor of the Christian Religion are simply the most persuasive that I have ever heard, and he never resorts to the blind repetition of dogmatic assertions about how it is the one true faith, like so many other so-called mystics. Instead, he uses his education and wit to persuade the reader (he's so smooth that you don't even know that he is trying to persuade you, and maybe he isn't) that Christianity is actually the culmination of all of man's religious history which came before it. This is truly an outstanding read.
    The Justification Of The Good: An Essay On Moral Philosophy
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    Foreword by David Bentley Hart

    After passing through atheism, nihilism, and sundry visions of life offered by Continental philosophy, Vladimir Solovyov emerged as a Christian thinker of irrepressible conviction and uncommon genius. "The Justification of the Good," one of Solovyov's last and most mature works, presents a profound argument for human morality based on the active presence of God's goodness in the world.

    In the first part of the book Solovyov explores humanity's inner virtues, weaving his moral philosophy with threads drawn from Orthodox theology. In the second part Solovyov discusses the practical implications of his views, showing how Christian goodness ought to express itself in such areas as marriage, property, government, economics, and culture. This edition of "The Justification of the Good" reproduces the English edition of 1918 and is the only new publication of this work since that date. The book includes a bibliography, compiled by esteemed scholar Boris Jakim, of Solovyov's major philosophical and religious works.

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    5 out of 5 stars Great book!.......2006-08-01

    This book is not a new translation, but it does have a foreword by the esteemed Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart and extensive notes by the translator Boris Jakim (who has also translated works by Pavel Florensky and Sergius Bulgakov). The range of subjects studied by Solovyov in this book are numerous. He talks about shame, just war, and morality. A definite must-read for those interested in Modern Orthodox Theology or Russian Philosophy.
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          This is the first book in any language to examine the friendship and the interrelated thought of two giants of Russian culture: Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), one of Russia`s greatest novelists, and Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900), Russia`s most influential philosopher. Marina Kostalevsky provides biographical details and a wide-ranging comparative analysis of their principal works from philosophical, literary, historical, and religious perspectives.
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            Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
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            This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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