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With its scholarly discussions of myth, German idealist philosophy, negative theology, and mysticism, shot through with reflections on personal religious experiences, Unfading Light documents what a life in Orthodoxy came to mean for Sergius Bulgakov on the tumultuous eve of the 1917 October Revolution. Written in the final decade of the Russian Silver Age, the book is a typical product of that...

the world, “from Marxism” and every ism resulting from it to . . . Orthodoxy. Oh, yes, of course it is a leap, towards happiness and joy; an abyss lies between both shores. I had to jump. If afterward it is necessary to justify “theoretically” and give a meaning to that leap for myself and for others, it will require many years of dogged labor in different domains of thought and knowledge, and the whole thing will not be enough, it will be insufficient. But in order to come to believe in a living