Venerable Justin (Popovich)

Philosophical abysses

Content

Editor's Note

From the publisher

Preface

 I. THE AGONY OF HUMANISM

The Focus of Tragedy

European Man at a Red-Hot Crossroads

Progress in the Death Mill

Supreme Value and Infallible Criterion

Between two philosophies

The Invisible in the Visible (the Mystery of Good and Evil)

The Last Judgment on God

II. JOYS AND SORROWS, THOUGHTS AND SENSATIONS

My Paradise and My Hell (the Meaning of Life and the World)

Sorrowful also for the hearts of the cherubim,

Condemnation to immortality

Cry for Christ

III. WATERSHED

Maeterlinck before the Great Silence

Dostoevsky as a prophet and apostle of Orthodox realism

About the paradise of the Russian soul

On the watershed of crops

Easter and the Serbian Immortals

On the Inviolable Greatness of Man

IV. SORROWS AND DESIRES

Swarming of infinities

On the terrace of the atom

Tick revolt

Down the noisy waterfall of time

She is an irresistible seductress

Chamois in Paradise Lost. Confession.

For the first time, the Russian translation of a series of philosophical and lyrical essays by the outstanding Serbian theologian and patrologist of the twentieth century, Archimandrite Justin (Popović), who is well known in Russia, is published. The author traces the paths of human thought to the acquisition of the truth about the world and man, paved, on the one hand, by humanistic philosophy, and on the other hand, by the Orthodox philosophy of the God-Man. Archimandrite Justin reveals these two paths to the reader in the teachings of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church, the philosophy of Materlinck and Dostoevsky, the ideology of Western man and Russian and Serbian saints.