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3%OFFAntoine Arjakovsky - The Way: Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Journal, 1925-1940 - 9780268020408 - V9780268020408
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The Way: Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Journal, 1925-1940

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Description for The Way: Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Journal, 1925-1940 Paperback. Editor(s): Jillions, John A.; Plekon, Michael. Translator(s): Ryan, Jerry. Num Pages: 784 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DVUA; 3JJG; HRCC8; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1098.

The journal Put', or The Way, was one of the major vehicles for philosophical and religious discussion among Russian émigrés in Paris from 1925 until the beginning of World War II. This Russian language journal, edited by Nicholas Berdyaev among others, has been called one of the most erudite in all Russian intellectual history; however, it remained little known in France and the USSR until the early 1990s. This is the first sustained study of the Russian émigré theologians and other intellectuals in Paris who were associated with The Way and of their writings, as published in The Way. Although ... Read more

Throughout this comprehensive study, Arjakovsky presents a wealth of arguments, from debates over "Russian exceptionalism" to the possibilities of a Christian and Orthodox version of socialist politics, the degree to which the church could allow its agenda to be shaped by both local and global political realities, and controversies about the distinctively Russian theology of Divine Wisdom, Sophia. Arjakovsky also maps out the relationships these émigré thinkers established with significant Western theologians such as Jacques Maritain, Yves-Marie Congar, Henri de Lubac, and Jean Daniélou, who provided the intellectual underpinnings of Vatican II.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
790
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268020408
SKU
V9780268020408
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About Antoine Arjakovsky
Antoine Arjakovsky is research director at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris and founding director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies and professor of ecumenical theology at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He is the author of a number of books, including Qu'est-ce que l'orthodoxie?

Reviews for The Way: Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Journal, 1925-1940
“Antoine Arjakovsky . . . has written a masterful history of Russian religious thinkers who left Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, took up residence in the West (mainly in Paris), and established a journal called Put’ or The Way. . . . In the end, Arjakovsky’s work is more than a history of the interwar Russian emigration and its periodical. ... Read more

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