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Nikolai Berdyaev
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Sophia Perennis
Published
June 2023
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Author
Nikolai Berdyaev
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Sophia Perennis
Published
June 2023
£27.34
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Spirit and Reality
Today's Price £27.34
The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and positivistic worldview and the beginning of a new era of the spirit. His philosophy goes beyond mere rational conceptualization and tries to attain authentic life itself: the profound layers of existence in contact with the divine world. He directed all his efforts-philosophical as well as in his personal and public life-at replacing the kingdom of this world with the kingdom of God. According to him, we can all attempt this by tapping the divine creative powers that constitute our true nature. Our mission is to be collaborators with God in His continuing creation of the world.
In Spirit and Reality, Nikolai Berdyaev explores the nature of spirit, describes how modernity has obscured the true meaning of spirit by distorting objectifications and symbolizations, and tells how human creative activity, in concert with divine activity, can overcome these distortions and lead us into the kingdom of authentic spiritual life. A great change is needed, which will lead us into the kingdom of the spirit, where we will live in a form of ascending and descending spiritual realism, where will be active rather than passive in spirit. God will descend to us, and we will ascend to him on the wings of our creative spirit.
 "Nikolai Berdyaev's writings are always insightful, penetrating, passionate, committed-expressions of the whole person. They are as intensely alive now as when they were first written."-Richard Pevear, translator of War and Peaceand The Brothers Karamazov
"Nikolai Berdyaev's writings retain their freshness as vehicles for thinking not just about the future of Russia, but about the spiritual challenges facing the modern world."-Paul Vallier, author of Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov
"Nikolai Berdyaev is one of the few who have found the Christian answer, and yet do not cease to question with those whose lives are still torn asunder by disbelief, doubt, and sufferings; one of the few who dare to be, as thinkers, Christians and, as Christians, thinkers."-Evgeny Lampert, author of The Apocalypse of History
Boris Jakim has translated and edited many books in the field of Russian religious thought. His translations include S. L. Frank's The Unknowable, Pavel Florensky's The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Vladimir Solovyov's Lectures on Divine Humanity, and Sergius Bulgakov's The Bride of the Lamb.
Author
Nikolai Berdyaev
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Sophia Perennis
Published
June 2023
Weight
445g
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 15 mm
ISBN
9781597311885
ISBN-10
159731188X
Eden Code
6254268
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Author/Creator: Nikolai Berdyaev
ISBN: 9781597311885
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Release Date: June 2023
Weight: 445g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 15 mm
Eden Code: 6254268