THE AESTHETIC FACE OF BEING: ART IN THE THEOLOGY OF PAVEL FLORENSKY, Victor Bychkov; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Fr. Pavel Florensky (1882-1937) was a man of many interests and talents, from mathematics and engineering to philosophy, theology, the arts, and linguistics. The present work examines Florensky's preoccupation with the centrality of art, specifically classical iconography, for the meaning of man. His work is arguably the basis for other noted studies of iconography, which have served to retreive iconography from its romantic deformations and restore it to its classical and canonical form. 101pp $8.00 Paper (SVS Press)

ARISTOTLE IN LATE ANTIQUITY (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy Series), edited by Lawrence P. Schrenk Examines Aristotle's infliuence on Plotinus, philosophers of the Late Greek era, and the Byzantine and Islamic cultures. 207pp $24.00 Paper (Catholic University of America)

BAKHTIN AND RELIGION: A FEELING FOR FAITH, edited by Susan M. Felch and Paul J. Contino Among the interpretation of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, none has been as fiercely contested - or as willfully ignored - as the dimension of religion in his life and work. Unique in its in-depth focus on this topic, Bakhtin and Religion brings together leading British, American, and Russian scholars to investigate the role of religious thought in shaping and framing Bakhtin's writings. Bakhtin was careful to distinguish between faith, which he identified as an abstract codification of a belief system, and a feeling for faith, which involved the active participation of persons, both human and divine. It is this "feeling" that the contributing authors pursue through Bakhtin's texts, in discussions of the mind-body problem, apophatic or negative theology, the thought-versus-language distinction, and the practice of inner prayer. The essays focus not only on the references to religion in Bakhtin's work but also on some of his early lectures (included in an appendix to this volume). Addressing topics ranging from the idea of love in Bakhtin's secular and religious thought to the religious component of Bakhtin's theory of laughter, the essays comprise a valuable overview of Bakhtin's attitude toward religion in general and Russian Orthodoxy in particular. They also explore how Bakhtin's religious ideas informed his linguistic and aesthetic theories. Partial Contents: The First and Second Adam in Bakhtin's Early Thought; Baktin and the Tropes of Orthodoxy; Mikhail Bakhtin's Discourse with Russian Orthodoxy. 2 illustrations. 272pp $23.00 Paper (Northwestern)

THE BAKHTIN READER: SELECTED WRITINGS OF BAKHTIN, MEDVEDEV, VOLOSHINOV, edited by Pam Morris (University of Dundee); with a Glossary compiled by Graham Roberts (University of Stathclyde) The first Bakhtin anthology Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work none the less remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format a good selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking. * Solves the problem of introducing students to Bakhtin's widely scattered work * Provides a full contextualizing editorial commentary * Includes a specially compiled glossary of terms. 272pp $20.00 Paper (An Arnold Publication)

CHRISTIANITY: LINEAMENTS OF A SACRED TRADITION, Philip Sherrard; Foreword by Bishop Kallistos Ware Lineaments - an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure, especially of a face. In this culmination of his life's work, the popular lay theologian and translator of the "Philokalia" draws from the depths of tradition the "face" of Christianity as a world religion. Through a critique of the modern scientific and rationalist paradigm, Sherrard seeks to restore the foundations of Christian cosmology and ecology, and to reaffirm the prime importance of sacred symbolisma nd art. The book includes a creative engagement with non-Christian traditions, with the "metaphysical logic" of Rene Guenon, and with distinctively modern thinkers such as Nietzsche and Jung. Readers will, as always, find Sherrard's argument and insights fresh, provoking and challenging. The volume begins with a major biographical essay and commentary on Sherrard's oeuvre by Kallistos Ware. 273pp $15.00 Paper (Holy Cross)

THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF RELATIONS, Constantine Cavarnos A study in the metaphysics of Plato, Aristotle and Thomism. The approach in it involves an envisaging all the results of being, the categories, the nature of the relational situation, the classification of relations. This original and lucid treatise was originally presented as a Ph.D. dissertation to the Department of Philosophy of Harvard University and was approved by Professors John Wild and Raphael Demos, authorities on classical philosophy. It was subsequently improved in various ways for publication in the present form. 116pp $7.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

THE CONCEPT OF CHRISTIAN LOVE, Constantine Cavarnos A lecture delivered at Columbia University, together with a Swedish version of it. This book is addressed to all persons who are interested in learning about the essential nature of the highest Christian virtue, spiritual love, and its presuppositions. It is a classic on the subject. 3 illustrations. 64pp$6.00 Paper Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

CONVERSATIONS WITH NIETZSCHE: A LIFE IN THE WORDS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES (Oxford World's Classics), edited with an Introduction by Sander L. Gilman (Cornell University); translated by David J. Parent (Illinois State University) See Biographies

THE COSMOLOGY OF MAN'S POSSIBLE EVOLUTION, P.D. Ouspensky Finally available, the companion volume to Ouspensky's well-known Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, definitive text only made available in 1989. 128pp $13.00 Paper (Praxis Institute)

THE CRISIS IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: AGAINST THE POSITIVISTS (Esalen Institute - Library of Russian Philosophy), Vladimir Solovyev; translated and edited by Boris Jakim The Crisis of Western Philosophy is the seminal work in which Solovyov developed his religious philosophy. In it, he undertakes a stunning critique of positivism, by which he understands the entire philosophy of Western rationalism which he sees as setting up a conflict between reason and faith, and reason and nature. In the modern period, he finds abundant evidence for reason's war against nature in Western philosophy from Descartes to Hegel. "Positivism," the leading philosophy in his time, Solovyov also finds repungnant. In its place, he proposes his great theme of total unity - which was to become the dominant theme in Russian philosophy. This is the work that launched Russian religious philosophy and is a must for anyone interested in the subject. 144pp $20.00 Paper (Lindisfarne)

THE "CROSS AND THE SICKLE": SERGEI BULGAKOV AND THE FATE OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY, 1890-1920, Catherine Evtuhov Catherine Evtuhov resurrects the brilliant and contradictory currents of turn-of-the-century Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg through an intellectual biography of Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944), one of the central figures of the Silver Age. The son of a provincial priest, Bulgakov served fiest as one of Russia's most original and influential interpreters of Marx, and then went on to become the century's most important theologian of the Orthodox Faith. As Evtuhov recounts the story of Bulgakov's spiritual evolution, she traces the impact of seemingly opposed philosophical and religious world views on one another and on the course of political events. In the first comprehensive analysis of Bulgakov's most important religious-philosophical work, "Philosopohy of Economy," Evtuhov identifies a "perceptual revolution" in Russian thinking about economy, a significant contribution to European modernist thought which both shaped and grew out of contemporary debates over land reforms. She reconstructs Bulgakov's visio of an Orthodox, constitutional Russia, shows how he tried to put it into practice in the wake of the February Revolution, and demonstrates its importance for a large and influential portion of Russian society. 1 black and white illustration. 320pp $43.00 Cloth (Cornell)

THE CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CONTINUITY OF GREECE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT, Constantine Cavarnos In this book, Professor Cavarnos summarizes and comments on a lecture delivered by the distinguished Argentine philosopher, philologist, and Hellenist, Dr. Saul A. Tovar. The lecture dealt with the subject of the unbroken continuity of Greek education and culture in general. In his preface, Cavarnos characterizes the lecture as brilliant, rich in content, bringing to light many important but little known facts about the cultural and educational history of Greece through the ages. Supplementing his discussion of Professor Tovar's lecture, Cavarnos added two illuminating chapters. In the first of these he discusses the famous Christian university at Alexandria that was headed by Panatinos and Clement of Alexandria, and was known as the "Catechetical School;" in the other chapter, he describes Greek education during the post-Byzantine period down to the present. 10 illustrations. 75pp $6.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN BERGSON, ARISTOTLE AND PHILOLOGOS (3rd enlarged Edition), Constantine Cavarnos; introduction by C.D. Georgoulis; comments by C.I. Lewis and Raphael Demos A comparative and critical study of some aspects of Henri Bergson's theory ofknowledge and reality. It focuses attention on the perennial problem of change, knowledge and the structure of reality. "These are developed with a lively style and wit which never lets the reader down... In addition to many illuminating comments on Bergson, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Dr. Cavarnos has also succeeded in revealing the amazing relevance of classical Greek thought to present day problems." - Professor John Wild of Harvard University In 1947 this work was awarded the prestigious First Bowdoin Prize by Harvard University. 80pp $7.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

A DIALOGUE ON G.E. MOORE'S ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY, Constantine Cavarnos A lucid and engaging discussion of the ethical philosophy of George Edward More - one of the most distinguished and influential philosophers of our time. Three talks with Moore himself at his home in Cambridge, England, are also included. 68pp $10.00 Cloth $5.00 Paper(Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

DOSTOEVSKY AND SOLOVIEV: THE MESSENGERS OF RUSSIAN SPIRITUALITY, Marina Kostalevsky This is the first book in any language to examine the friendship and the interrelated thought of two giants of Russian culture: Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), one of Russia's greatest novelists, and Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900), Russia's most influential philosopher. Marina Kostalevsky provides biographical details and a wide-ranging comparative analysis of their principal works from philosophical, literary, historical and religious perspectives. For Soloviev and, even more, Dostoevsky, the tasks of literature and philosophy so converged that their writings marked a significantly new level of unity in these fields, argues Kostalevsky. This unity became the source of a vital and continuing current in Russian philosophical and artistic thought, seen today in the uneasy post-Soviet process of restoring the cultural tradition of the pre-Soviet past. Kostalevsky discusses the intricate interaction between Dostoevsky and Soloviev, focusing on their philosophical and novelistic treatments of the themes of Godmanhood, theocracy, and ethics. She contends that Soloviev's vision of the world - a vision grounded in the Christian religion and built on the general idea of Godmanhood - is paralleled in Dostoevsky's major works. Further, she finds that Soloviev's own interpretation of Dostoevsky inagurated a Russian tradition of Dostoevsky criticism that culminates in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. 240pp $45.00 Cloth (Yale)

DOSTOEVSKY'S CONCEPT OF SPIRITUAL REBIRTH, Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky Both inspirtional and theological, this book is written at an advanced level. It is an excellent source book for the parish priest and teachers of Bible study groups and higher levels of church school classes. An excellent analysis of Dostoevsky's works. Volume one of a five part series on Dostoevsky's works by the same author. $5.00 Paper (Synaxis)

DOSTOIEVSKY'S PHILOSOPHY OF MAN, Constnatine Cavarnos This book is comprised of a general discussion of Dostoievsky's teaching on the nature and destiny of man, and of discussion-reviews of six works of Dostoievsky. 86pp $14.00 Cloth $6.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

DOSTOIEVSKY'S PHILOSOPHY OF MAN (Monographic Supplement Series II), Constantine Cavarnos An in-depth study by a first rate scholar of the Christian anthropology of this famous Russian novelist. Dr. Cavarnos focuses on the central thems of Dostoievsky's writings: free will, suffering, conscience, and love, and the "real possibility of progression from the lowest to the highest level, that of a truly spiritual man." 14pp $2.50 Paper (Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies)

THE DRAMA OF ATHEIST HUMANISM, Henri de Lubac; foreword by Hans Urs von Balthasar A penetrating study of the giants of nineteenth century atheism, in many ways the founders of the modern intellectual world - Comte, nietzsche, Feuerbach and Marx. Writings in the 1940's, when the fruits of their revolutionary ideas had become manifest, de Lubac finds their most compelling refutation coming not from a philosopher, but from a novelist - Dostoevsky. It is he who most fully comprehended the thorough going atheism - de Lubac would strengthen that description to militant anti-theism - of these thinkers, portrayed the logical consequence of their vision in unforgettable characters such as Roskolnikova nd Stavrogin, and offered not an intellectual refutation, but incarnations of transcendent beauty, goodness and sanity as the ture description of reality. De Lubac movingly portrays Dostoevsky as having passed through a death of utter, sympathetic comprehension of atheistic nihilism, before entering into the resurrection of an Alyosha or a Fr. Zosima. Genius, mystic, prophet, exemplar of faith emerging from radical doubt, Dostoevsky is the hero of this book, and the paradigm de Lubac proposes for reclaiming man from "a path that leads to nowhere."$25.00 Paper (Ignatius)

THE ETERNAL IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY (The first translation into English of an important Russian thinker), Boris P. Vysheslavtsev; translated by Penelope V. Burt Much of Russian philosophy has been unavailable to or unexplored by Western thinkers, which is a tragedy because the uniqueness of the Russian vision has much to contribute to Western dialogue. The Eternal in Russian Philosophy helps to fill this intellectual lacuna by offering a genuinely philosophical introduction to the themes of Russian religious thought - freedom, the nature and centrality of the person, the nature of grace and law, the role of the irrational in human nature and its sublimation, and conscious credos versus unconscious cultural assumptions. Boris Vysheslavtsev was one of a constellation of Russian thinkers, including Soloviev, Berdyaev, and Florensky, whose voices were lost amid the din of Soviet censorship. It is only now that Vysheslavtsev's thought is becoming available to the West. Melding religious and existential concerns, this is both a book about Russian philosophy and an excellent exemplar of it. 224pp $26.00 Paper (William B. Eerdman's)

FINE ART AS THERAPY: PLATO'S TEACHINGORGANIZED AND DISCUSSED, Constantine Cavarnos A lecture delivered at Boston University. 96pp $15.00 Cloth (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

THE FREEDOM OF MORALITY (Contemporary Greek Theologians Series, Volume 3), Christos Yannaras; translated by Elizabeth Briere An inquiry into the criteria and presuppositions which enable us to confront moral problems. It highlights Christian morality primarily in terms of persons in their freedom and mutual relationships rather than in juridical terms. The book is best characterized as an "adventure of freedom" which can be creative exploration undertaken by anyone engaged in the confrontation of moral problems. 278pp $15.00 Paper (Saint Vladimir Seminary Press)

THE GOSPEL IN DOSTOYEVSKY, edited by the Bruderhof; woodcuts by Fritz Eichenberg "If you are assiled by doubt, even total rejection of God, try Dostoyevsky. And don't be daunted by the fact that most of his books are fat. Start with this volume of power-laden excerpts." - a reader An excellent introduction to one of the world's most important authors, this volume contains a gathering of passages from Dostoyevsky's greatest novels: The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Adolescent. If you are not familiar with Dostoevsky, this edition is an excellent introduction. If you are familiar with him, the power of "The Grand Inquisitor" from The Brothers Karamazov, the poignance of Sonya reading "The Awakening of Lazarus" to Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment, and those incredible images of Prince Myshkin, the fool for Christ in The Idiot, will be dramatic reminders of Dostoevsky's "dramatic vision of God's amazing grace and of the agonies, Christ's and ours, that accompany salvation." - J.I. Packer 272pp $15.00 Paper (The Plough Publishing House)

HELLENIC - CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION, Constantine Cavarnos; introduction by Professor Stephen D. Salamone Four lectures delivered at Boston University in 1987-1988: I. Plato's Legacy in the Hellenic East; II. Aristotle's Legacy in the Helenic East; III. Stoic Elements in the Greek Church Fathers; and IV. The Concept of Philosophy in the Hellenic Traditon.$15.00 Cloth $8.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

HRYHORIJ SAVYC SKOVORODA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRITICALARTICLES, edited by Richard H. Marshall, Jr. and Thomas E. Bird Hryhorij Skovoroda (1722-1794) is a major figure in the history of Ukrainian and Russian literature and philosophy. Educated at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, he served variously as music director of the Russian imperial mission in Hungary, private tutor, and instructor of ethics and poetics at the Xarkiv Collegium. The last decades of his life, which he spent wandering about eastern Ukraine, were devoted to writing and contemplation. Skovoroda's writings - verse, fables and philosophical dialogues - are profoundly steeped in Biblical tradition and characterized by the striking use of symbol and metaphor, as well as sophisticated linguistic experimentation. His influence on Ukrainian and Russian writers began in his own lifetime and has continued and grown ever since. It is strongly evident in the works of such figures as Taras Sevcenko, Nikolaj Gofgol', Andrej Belyj and Vasyl' Barka, among others. Skovoroda is an indelible presence in the realms of philosophy, literature, religion, and linguistics. Yet he is inadequately appreciated, particularly in the West. This collection contains essays by many of the leading specialists on Skovoroda outside Ukraine. In it, Skovoroda is examined from a number of perspectives: historical, social, literary, pedagogical, linguistic, theological and philosophical. The volume contains essays by Dmytro Cyzevskyj, Stephen Scherer, George Y. Shevelov, Bohdan Rubchak, Bohdan Struminski, George Kline, Taras Zakydalsky, Petro Bilaniuk and others. It also includes an exhaustive bibliography of Skovorodiana compiled by Richard Hantula. 319pp $45.00 Cloth (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)

ICONOSTASIS, Pavel Florensky; translated by Donald Sheehan and Olga Andrejev Iconostasis is Fr. Pavel's final theological work. Composed in 1922, it explores in highly original terms the significance of the icon: its philosophic depth, its spiritual history, its empirical technique. In doing so, Fr. Pavel also sketches a new history of both Western religious art and the Orthodox icon: a history under the direct operation of the Holy Spirit. The work is original, challenging, and profoundly articulate. This translation is the first complete English version. The translators have sought to capture the full reality of Fr. Pavel's highly complex and richly orchestrated prose. They have created a style that is at once faithful to Fr. Pavel's complexities and yet fully intelligible as English intellectual prose. The book begins with a vivid introductory essay of Fr. Pavel's life and work in historical context. 166pp $11.00 Paper (SVSPress)

LECTURES ON DIVINE HUMANITY (Esalen Institute - Library of Russian Philosophy), Vladimir Solovyov; translated by Boris Jakim This extraordinary exposition of humanity on its journey to becoming Divine Humanity, was given by Solovyov in St. Petersburg in 1878. These lectures mark a seminal moment not only in Russian but also in world philosophy. Dostoyevsky, Totstoy, and other luminaries were in the adudience. It was recognized by everyone that something astonishing had occurred. The young philosopher, mystic and visionary, Solovyov, had given unexpectedly concise, intellectiual expression to the reality of the evolution of consciousness and religion. 192pp $19.00 Paper (Lindisfarne)

THE MEANING OF LOVE (Esalen Institute - Library of Russian Philosophy), Vladimir Solovyev "Solovyov's arguments are engaging, to say the least: Engaging the intellect, but also the depths of the readers's being. You can't say that about many books. The highest praise I can offer is the that "The Meaning of Love" is the only modern book I know of that is worthy of its subject in every respect." - D. Fideler$22.00 Hardcover $13.00 Paper (Lindisfarne)

MODERN GREEK PHILOSOPHERS ON THE HUMAN SOUL (2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition), Constantine Cavarnos Selections from the writings of five representative thinkers of modern Greece - Benjamin of Lesvos, P. Vrailas-Armenis, I. Skaltsounis, St. Nectarios of Aegina, N. Louvaris, Ph. Kontoglou, and I.N. Theodorakopoulos - on the human soul: its existence, freedom, powers and immortality. Illustrated. 140pp $7.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

MODERN GREEK THOUGHT, Constantine Cavarnos Three essays dealing with Greek thought from 1750 to the present. The first is an introduction to modern Greek philosophy through a discussion of its distinctive characteristics. The other essays discuss the standpoing of many eminent intellectuals - philosophers, theologians, scientists, poets, novelists, and others - regarding the capibilities and value of the positive sciences and the questions of the nature and destiny of man. "A bold attempt - a unique pioneering one - to give the reader a perceptive, meaningful, and reliable overview of the modern Greek mind. The result is eminently successful and extremely useful." 115pp$6.00 Paper (Institute for Modern Greek Studies)

NEOPLATONISM AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT, edited by Dominic J. O'Meara Given the profound importance of Neoplatonism in the shaping of classical Christian though, this valuable collection of essays is highly recommened. Various scholars cover a wide range of issues: philosophical, theological and literary. Contents: The Platonic and Christian Ulysses; Origen's Doctrine of the Trinity and Some Later Neoplatonic Theories; A Neoplatonic Commentary on the Christian Trinity: Marius Victorinus; The Neoplatonism of St. Augustine; Some Later Neoplatonic Views on Divine Creation and the Eternity of the World; John Philoponus and Stephanus of Alexandria: Two Neoplatonic Christian Commenators on Aristotle; New Objective links Between the Pseudo-Dionysius and Proclus; The Problem of General Concepts in Neoplatonism and Byzantine Thought; The Primacy of Existence in the Thought of Eriugena; The Overcoming of the Neoplatonic Triad of Being, Life and Intellect by Thomas Aquinas; The Problem of Reality and Multiplicity of Divine Ideas in Christian Neoplatonism; Meister Eckhart on God as Absoute Unity; Neoplatonism and Christian Thought in the 15th century: Nicholas of Cusa and Marsilio Ficino; Neoplatonism, the Greek Commentators, and Renaissance Aristolelianism; Andreas Canutius on the Concord of Plato and Aristotle with Scripture; Triads and Trinity in the Poetry of Robert Browning; The Christian Platonism of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams; Negative Theology, Myth, and Incarnation; Why Christians Should be Platonist. 297pp $65.00 Cloth (State University of New York)

NIHILISM: THE ROOT OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE MODERN AGE, Eugen (Fr. Seraphim) Rose In 1962, the young Eugene Rose undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of Truth in the modern age. Of the hundreds of pages of material he compiled for this work, only the present essay has come down to us in completed form. Here Eugene reveals the core of all modern thought and life - the belief that all trugh is relative - and shows how this belief has been translated into action in our century. Today, three decades after he wrote it, this essay is surely more timely than ever. It clearly explains why contemporary ideas, values, and attitudes - the "spirit of the age" - are shifting so rapidly in the direction of moral anarchy, as the philosophy of Nihilism enters more deeply into the fiber of society. Nietszche was right when he predicted that the 20th century would usher in "the triumph of Nihilism." Indeed, the Christian is - in an ultimate sense - a "Nihilist;" to him, in the end, the world is nothing, and God is all. On the one hand, the true Nihilist places his faith in things that pass away and end in nothing. On the other hand, the Christian, renouncing such vanity, places his faith in the one thing that will not pass away, the Kingdom of God. 104pp $5.95 Pape (St Herman of Alaska)

ON SPIRITUAL UNITY: A SLAVOPHILE READER, Aleksey Khomiakov and Ivan Kireevsky; translated by Boris Jakim and Robert Bird This unique volume gathers together for the first time the religious and philosophical writings of the founders of Russian religious philosophy, Aleksei Khomiakov and Ivan Kireevsky. Both began their intellectual careers in the literary world during the 1820s. Khomiakov was for many years best known as a poet of the Pushkin school, while Kireevsky was well known as an origianl literary critic. The texts collected here make available to Western readers two of Russian's great gifts to world thought: the philosophical concepts of "Sobornost" (community, universality, wholeness, ecumenicity) and "integral knowledge", which overcomes the subject/object dichotomy, making sobornost possible. Based on the primacy of the heart, the spiritual wholeness of the human being, and the cognitive will, integral knowing moves beyond rationality to union with the object of knowledge in knowing. On Spiritual Unity provides not only a fascinating introduction to Russian religious philosophy, but more than that a profound, meditative text for anhyone concerned with human and spiritual unity. Also included in this collection are two responses to Slavophile ideas by the prominent Russian philosophers Pavel Florensky and Nikolai Berdiaev. 352pp $25.00 Paper (Lindisfarne)

PHILO IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE - A SURVEY: SECTION 3, VOLUME 3 (Compendia Rerum Ludicarum ad Novum Testamentum), David T. Runia The writings of Philo were preserved because they were taken up in the Christian tradition. But the story of how this took place has not until been systematically researched. David T. Runia examines the survival and transmission of Phil's writings and then analyzes the interrelationship of Phio, the New Testament, the Apostolic Fathers, and the Apologists. He pays special attention to the crucial role in this process played by the Alexandrian Christian tradition, especially Clement, Origen, and Didymus the Blind. In addition, the interest of Philo on the part of Eusebius, Gregoy of Nyssa, and Ambrose is considered. Runia describes the influence of Phiolo on the exegetical, philosophical, theological, and hermeneutical themes of early Christian writers, and of opposition to some of these themes - particularly allegorism - on the part of the Antiocheans. 418pp $50.00 Cloth (Fortress)

PHILOSOPHY IN CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY, Christopher Stead In the ancient world, "philosophy" included branches of higher learning except mathematics and medicine. It was the keystone of university education, and it helped to change the Christian Church from a somewhat obscure Jewish sect to a worldwide civilizing force. With refined scholarship, but written to include nonspecialist readers, Stead sets out to explain the influence of philosophy on early Christian thought and its formation of theology and doctrine, as well as the way Christian writers contributed to the philosophy of their day in explicating their beliefs as a "new hilosophy" to well-educated pagans. Stead provides a concise background of the emergence of philosophic thought among the Greeks, followed by a topical explication of its use by Christians in developing doctrine, concluding with a section devoted to critical study of Augustine. This is a welcome additon to the history of early Christian thought. 270pp $23.00 Paper (Cambridge)

PLATO'S THEORY OF FINE ART (2nd, augmented edition), Constantine Cavarnos Plato's general theory of fine art and his critical examination of specific fine arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, the dance, music, rhetoric, narrative, comedy, tragedy, lyric and epic poetry. Also, an anthology of passages on the fine arts and the beautiful, compiled from Plato's dialogues and translated from the original Greek texts. 112pp $15.00 Cloth $7.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

PLATO'S VIEW OF MAN, Constantine Cavarnos $5.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

POLITICAL APOCALYPSE: A STUDY OF DOSTOEVSKY'S GRAND INQUISTOR, Ellis Sandoz This book employs the philosophical and theological background of Dostoevsky's writing as a means of explicating the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Russian quasi-religious thought as it was influenced by Western revolutionary doctrine and Hegelian thought contemporary in Dostoevsky's Russia is the key to understanding the Legend. According to Sandoz, the Lengend is a seminal instance of modern political millenarianism stemming from such speculation. 287pp $25.00 Cloth (Intercollegiate Studies Institute)

PYTHAGORAS ON THE FINE ARTS AS THERAPY, Constantine Cavarnos A lecture delivered at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 1993. "Following an outline of the general views of Pythagoras and his followers, Professor Cavarnos evaluates Pythagorean notions about the therapeutic applications of the fine arts. This he follows with a useful and eclectic collection of passages from Homer to the Byzantine writers, which focus on music and literature as theraphy." 80pp $6.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEOPLATONISM AND CHRISTIANITY, edited by T. Finan and V. Twomey The theme of this book is the relationship between Neoplatonism and Christianity, a topic that in recent scholarship has been the center of controversary. 192pp $45.00 Hardcover w/Case (Four Courts)

A REVELATION OF LIFE ETERNAL: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CHRISITAN MESSAGE, Nicholas Arseniev A short introduction to the Christian message. With remarkable breath of vision, encompassing such diverse phenomena as Sufi mysticism, the Rig-Veda, Australian tribal religions, and medieval religious poetry, Prof. Arseniev indicates both the decisive significance of the Christian message and the historical preparation for it. Articles include "Suffering," "Meaning and Goal of History," "The Law of Love," "The Mystical Encounter," and "Resurrection and Transfiguration." 144pp $9.00 Paper (SVS Press)

THE RUSSIAN IDEA (Esalen Institute - Library of Russian Philosophy), Nikolai Berdyaev In this remarkable, moving book, the most powerful expression of the country's mystical roots in print, Berdyaev is not so interested in the empirical details of Russian history as he is in "the thought of the Creator about Russia." The Russian idea is thus a mystical one. Religion and philosophy, not economics or politics, determine history and society. Berdyaev takes up the story in the 19th century. He traces the lineage of powerful artists and thinkers (Chaadev, Khomyakov, Kireevsky, Leontyev, Akaskov, Hertzen, Bakunin) who struggled to intergrate the polarities of East and West, spirit and matter, male and female in the Russian soul. Demanding all or nothing, alternatively apocalyptic and nihilistic, these Russians strove to justify culture and discover Russia's mystical mission. 280pp $27.00 Hardcover $17.00 Paper (Lindisfarne)

RUSSIAN RELGIOUS THOUGHT: RECOVERING THE ROOTS OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSPHY, edited by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt and Richard Gustafson As Russia entered the modern age in the 19th century, many Russian intellectuals melded European Philosophy with their own traditions, culminating in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and in the relgious philosophy of Vladimir Soloviev. This book explores central issues of modern Russian religious thought by focusing on the work of Soloview and three relgious philosophers who further developed his ideas in the early 20th century: P.A. Florensky, Sergei Bulgakov, and S.L. Frank. The essays place them in the contexts of both Western philosophy and Eastern Orthodoxy, presenting a substantially new perspective on Russian relgious thought. The work of these four philosophers influenced virtually all aspects of 20th century Russian culture, and many aspects of Soviet culture as well, but also represents a rich philosophical tradition that transcends national boundaries and historical eras. This book provides a thoughtful corrective both to past assumptions about Russian religious philosophy and to nationalist readings currently popular in post-Soviet Russia. 224pp $22.00 Paper (University of Wisconsin)

RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY: SELECTED ASPECTS, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J. The author expands on specific aspects and themes of Russian religious thought that were briefly touched upon in his earlier volume "Philosophy in Russia: From Herzen to Lenin and Berdynev." Apart from some references to Kireevsky and Khomyakov, Copleston confines his attention in the present volume to Solovyov, Russia's first systematic philosopher and his spiritual heirs of the first half of the 20th century, Semyon Frank and Nicholas O. Lossky. The volume begins by placing relevant Russian thinkers ink their historical context. Some ideas expounded by Russian religious thinkers in the filed of of philosophy of history are then explained and discussed. The theme of "Godmanhood" and its reflection on the doctrine of the Incarnation, which according to Berdysev is a characteristic theme of religious philosophy in Russia, is examined along with the theory of "Sophia" (Wisdom), which was offered as a means of explaining the relationship between God and the world. Shestov's attitude toward philosophy and religious faith is treated at great length. The volume ocncludes by discussing the question of whether this movement of philosophical thought has continued and whether those who can reasonably be regarded at Solovyev's successors in the first half of the 20th century have their own successors in turn. And if not, is it all reasonable to suppose that such successors are likely to arise? 192pp $29.00 Cloth (University of Notre Dame)

THE SACRED IN LIFE AND ART, Philip Sherrard The concept of a completely profane world - of a cosmos wholly desacralised - is a fairly recent invention of the western mind, and only now are we beginning to realise the appalling consequences of trying to order and mould our social, personal and creative life in obedience to its dictates. This book attempts to clarify what is damanded of us if we are to have any chance of avoiding the impending catastrophe. It examines the nature and significance of the sacred itself and focuses on the ever-present, timeless qualities of beauty, live and miracle through which we can be renewed and transformed whatever the condition of the world in which we live. 128pp $50.00 Cloth $23.00 Paper (Sophia Perennis Et Universalis)

SEVEN SAGES OF ANCIENT GREECE, Constantine Cavarnos The lives and teachings of the earliest Greek philosophers: Thales, Pittacos, Bias, Solon. Cleobulos, Myson and Chilon. This book is addressed to all persons who are lovers of perennial wisdom - of wisdom that can serve in every age and every country as a safe guide in one's individual and public life. It includes favorite sayings of Greek philosophers of Saint Nectarios. Illustrated. 88pp$12.00 Cloth $7.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)

A SOLOVYOV ANTHOLOGY, Vladimir Solovyov; Introduced by Aidan Nichols, O.P.; with a Preface by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi (See Theology Section)

SPIRITUAL BEAUTY (Monographic Supplement Series XIX), Constantine Cavarnos A lucid examination of the concept of beauty from the perspectives of philosophy and theology. Dr. Cavarnos draws on iconography, hymnography, and ascetic writings in order to demonstrate the centrality of beauty in Eastern Orthodoxy. 17pp $4.00 Paper (Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies)

SPIRITUAL BEAUTY (To Pneumatikon Kallos), Constantine Cavarnos An eloquent discussion of the concept of Spiritual Beauty, with reference to philosophic, religious, and literary writings that date from Antiquity to the present. Illustrated. 64pp $6.00 Paper (Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies) In Greek and English

THE TIME OF THE KINGDOM: AN ORTHDOX CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY, David J. Goa The meaning of history, the role of the Orthodox Church in the process of history, Church, society and history and many other questions are examined in this excellent treatise by one of Canada's foremost philosophers and teachers of the Orthodox Christian tradition. $5.00 Paper (Synaxis)

TOLSTOY'S ART AND THOUGHT, 1847-1880, Donna Tussing Orwin $56.00 Cloth (Princeton)

THE TRINITY OF LOVE IN MODERN RUSSIAN THEOLOGY: THE LOVE PARADIGM AND THE RETRIEVAL OF WESTERN MEDIEVAL LOVE MYSTICISM IN MODERN RUSSIAN TRINITARIAN THOUGHT (from Solovyov to Bulgakov, Michael Aksionov Meerson This book studies the emergence of the love paradigm in contemporary trinitarian doctrines within modern Russian philosophy and theology. Two features in particular characterize contemporary usage of this love paradigm: first, an appraoch to the trinitarian doctrine which begins from an analysis of personhood rather than of substance, and second, a modern relational understanding of the perosn as being in communion iwth others. This love paradigm explains the triune relationship of the Divine hypostases, which is a form of ontological communion, by the ontological love iwthin God. Contemorary Western theologians who employ this love paradigm retreive the Western medieval tradition of love mysticism which they trace to St. Augustine, on the one hand, and the Greek patristic concept of "perichoresis" on the other. In this manner they reclaim continunity with both Eastern and Western Christian traditions. - from the author's introduction 255pp $16.00 Paper (Franciscan Press)

VLADIMIR SOLOVIEV: RUSSIAN MYSTIC, Paul M. Allen This unique, timely book - the first in-depth, full-length portrait of Soloviev as a mystic to appear in English - is the rich fruit of Dr. Allen's lifelong interest in the cultural-spiritual achievements, the mysticism and the esoteric striving of the Russian people of Tsart times. 544pp $16.00 Hardcover $11.00 Paper (Garber Communications)

VLADIMIR SOLOVIEV: THE MAN AND THE PROPHET, Eugenia Gourvitch 'Although Soloviev was a great philosopher,' said Rudolf Steiner, 'his head, his intellect, was still not as far advanced as his soul.' It is the prophetic soul of Vladimir Soloviev that Eugenia Gourvitch captures for us in this book, which represents a lifetime's study and interest in a man who foreshadowed so much that is central to the spiritual life of today. She sees him not only as a representative of the Russian Folk-soul, destined to play such an important role, and as a characteristic spirit of the 'People of Christ:' she shows him to have been a prophet of the Divine Sophia, the spiritual Wisdom which in our times descends into humanity, to become a Human Wisdom or "Anthroposophia." Soloview's vision of the new Temple of Sophia finds fulfilment in the new Mysteries for which he always sought and which came into being through the work of Rudolf Steiner.
Eugenia Gourvitch guides us through the spiritual development of Vladimir Soloview, tracing his hopes for the unification of Christians, his disillusion with the external Churches but his constant devotion to the Divine Sophia within, who had appeared to him three times in vision, in Moscow, London and Egypt. Against this background she explains the meaning of his powerful story "The Antichrist." - From the Book Jacket 123pp $26.00 Hardcover (Rudolf Steine)

WAR, PROGRESS AND THE END OF HISTORY: THREE CONVERSATIONS, INCLUDING A SHORT TALE OF THE ANTICHRIST (Esalen Institute - Library of Russian Philosophy), Vladimir Solovyov In this prophetic, millennial work, written by Russia's greatest philosopher at the end of the last century, the great task facing humanity as progress races to end history is the risistance to evil. Solovyov address what seem to him the three main trends of our time: economic materialism, Tolstoyan abstract moralism, and Nietzschean hubris - the first is already present, the second imminent, while the last is the apocalyptic precursor of the Antichrist. 192pp $15.00 Paper (Lindisfarne)