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Articles and Essays At This Site by N. Berdyaev Quenchers of the Spirit (1913 - 172), translated by Fr Stephen Janos. Discord in the Church and Freedom of Conscience (1926 - 315), translated by Fr Alvian N. Smirensky. Unifying Christians of the East and the West (1926 - 73bis), translated by Fr Michael Knechten. Orthodoxy and Ecumenism (1927 - 328), translated by Fr Michael Knechten. The Worth of Christianity and the Unworthiness of Christians (1928 - 24), translated by Donald Attwater. Universality and Confessionalism (1933 - 64), translated by Fr Stephen Janos. The Russian Spiritual Renaissance of Beginning XX Century and the Journal Put' (1935 - 403), translated by Fr Stephen Janos. The Truth of Orthodoxy (1952 - 477), translated by Fr Alvian Smirensky. about N. Berdyaev Berdyaev -- The Thinker by Georgii P. Fedotov, translated by Fr. Stephen Janos. N. Berdyaev by N.O. Lossky, from his 1952 History of Russian Philosophy, reprinted with publisher's permission. Tribute to N. Berdyaev, on the 50th aniversary of his death (March 23, 1948), by Fr. Stephen Janos. Freedom in God: A Guide to the Thought of Nicholas Berdyaev, by E. L. Allen Introduction to Berdyaev, from Russian Philosophy, Volume III, reprinted with publisher's permission. Shipping Away a Generation of Intellectuals, by Andrei Zolotov. An article on the expulsion from Russia of Berdyaev and other philosophers, with some of their experiences and the legacy they left behind. Nicolas Berdyaev: Man -- Witness for Primordial Freedom, from Introduction to Modern Existentialism by Ernst Breisach. Nicholas Berdyaev, Orthodox nonconformist, by Lyn Atterbury, from Third Way magazine, October 1978.   At Other Sites The Berdyaev Online Library - extensive list of articles by and about N. Berdyaev, maintained by Fr Stephen Janos. Gnosis and Existential Philosophy. An appreciation of N.Berdyaev by Lev Shestov. The.
(c) 1995 by Dimitri Lisin (dima@cs.wpi.edu) Freedom contains the mystery of the world. God wanted freedom,and from this came the tragedy of the world. Nikolai Berdyaev. Table of Contents I. Biography. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born on March 6, 1874 in Kiev1. By birth and upbringing he was an aristocrat. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long line of nobility from Kiev and Kharkov. Almost all of his ancestors were high-ranking military officers, but he himself resigned from the army quite early and became active in the social life of Kiev aristocracy. Nikolai's mother, Alina Sergeevna Berdyaeva, was half French, also coming from top levels of French and Russian nobility. Berdyaev's father was an educated man, greatly influenced b y Voltaire. He considered himself a free thinker and was very skeptical toward religion. Nikolai's mother, orthodox by birth, was in her views on religion more catholic, than orthodox. This could be one of the reasons why Berdyaev, a very religious man and a religious philosopher, despised the official Orthodox Church. He spent his childhood at home, without any friends his own age. From this early time on he always felt hostility and alienation toward the outside world, for which this solitude could be responsible, at least partly. This had a heavy influence on his philosophy, which is very subjective and very idealistic. He was constantly creating his own inner world to counterpose it to the material world outside, in which he saw so many injustices and imperfections. His parents did not impose many restraints on him, and as a result, he could never accept any kind of authority. When later he went to a military school, this hatred of any suppression of personal freedom grew even stronger. Throughout all his life and in all aspects of it, Berdyaev disliked uniforms, ranks and formalism. Berdyaev read a lot.