Vision de Dieu Lecture Course - BOGOVIDENIE

Book excerpt: “Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Abstract: Vladimir Nikolayevich Lossky is one of those few Orthodox theologians of the 20th century who engaged in dialogue with the Christian West, preserving the integrity of Orthodoxy. This explains the fact that most of the theological works of Vl. Lossky are written in French: this gave him the opportunity to show, addressing directly to Western Christians, that Orthodoxy is not a historical form of Eastern Christianity, but an enduring universal truth - the universal truth. The course of lectures "The Vision of God " , was read at the Sorbonne, in 1945-1946, and is a patristic introduction to " Palamism " , the theologian - Viy Saint Gregory Palamas and other hesychasts. The author traces the history of Eastern Christian theology (directly associated with asceticism ) , starting from the first centuries of Christianity, through the teachings of the Cappadocian Fathers, various ascetic and theological schools of the Syro-Palestinian East and Byzantium, to the one developed in the Areopagitics and developed in the writings of the monk Maximus the Confessor to the theological system adopted and further transformed by the Hesychasts. For pupils and students of theological educational institutions, students and graduate students of theological universities and faculties, for specialists engaged in research in the field of dogmatic theology , patristics, as well as for everyone interested in the doctrine of the Orthodox Church.