There Is A Tragic Clash Between Truth

So Great Is The Worth Of Dostoevsky That To Have Produced Him Is By Itself Sufficient Justification For The Existence Of The Russian People In The World: And He Will Bear Witness For His Country-men At The Last Judgement Of The Nations.

The Russian Yearning For The Meaning Of Life Is The Major Theme Of Our Literature, And This Is The Real Point Of Our Intelligentsia's Existence.

The World Is Not An Idea As Asserted By Philosophers Who Have Dedicated Their Entire Lives To The Exploration Of Ideas. First And Foremost The World Is Passion. But Passion Is Associated With Sadness. Sadness Does Not Only Arise From Death Which Makes Us Face The Eternity, But Also From Life Which Causes Us To Confront The Time.

There Is Something Servile In The Interpretation Of Sin As Crime Which Infringes The Will Of God And Calls For Legal Proceedings On The Part Of God. Sin Is Dividedness, A State Of Deficiency, Incompleteness, Dissociation, Enslavement, Hatred, But It Is Not Disobedience And Not Formal Violation Of The Will Of God.

The Central Idea Of The Eastern Fathers Was That Of Theosis, The Divinization Of All Creatures, The Transfiguration Of The World, The Idea Of The Cosmos And Not The Idea Of Personal Salvation...only Later Christian Consciousness Began To Value The Idea Of Hell More Than The Idea Of The Transfiguration And Divinization Of The World...the Kingdom Of God Is The Transfiguration Of The World, The Universal Resurrection, A New Heaven And A New Earth.