This is something I want my Orthodox friends to read, who have become so Americanized as Republicans or Democrats or green or liberatarian, that they pervert Orthodoxy, become blind and paralysed, and like the denizens of the west become either on one hand as Republicans, Pharisees, and on the other hand like Democrats, become promulgators of the new jim crow, which stunts uniqueness in personality to race, or false gender constructs. the soul of mankind becomes more and more constricted and the relations between people in the Church more constrained as they seek to project onto their fellow Christian stereotypes of the fall world. One People, One Faith, One God…they forget..as they only drink from the chalice in form, but drink deeply from the false chalices of the world.
Philosopher Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (1870-1965) outlines Fyodor Dostoevsky’s vision of Russia’s transcendent mission – to bring the world to the God-Man Christ, Whose fullest expression is found in the ancient faith upheld by Byzantium and adopted by Grand Prince Vladimir in 988. Salvation comes from the East. Translated by Mark Hackard.
Knowing the deep religious basis of the Russian spirit, Dostoevsky, despite all the shortcomings of the people, believed that it stood to the Russians to carry out a great mission in Europe. He saw “the essence of Russia’s calling” in “revealing to the world the unknown Russian Christ, Whose principle lies in our native Orthodoxy” (Letter to Strakhov, 1869, No. 325). In view of the breadth of the Russian mind and character, Dostoevsky was confident that the Christian spirit would be expressed in the ability to develop a synthesis of opposing ideas and aspirations that divide the peoples of Europe, whence would…
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