The collection presents the materials of the annual international conference "Assumption Readings", which took place in 2006 in Kiev. Christian understanding of the human personality and its integrity in the face of modern problems and in the historical perspective has been the subject of reflection of famous theologians, philosophers, historians, art critics, journalists, writers. The reader will find here the texts of such authors as Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret, Metropolitan of the Lebanese Mountains George (Khodr), Christos Yannaras, Fr. Michael Van Pareis, Fr. Enzo Bianchi, archim. Job (Gecha), Fr. Vladimir Zelinsky, Antoine Arzhakovsky, Adalberto Maynardi, Elena Glazova, Victor Malakhov, Fr. Hugh Weibru, Eugene Rashkovsky, Marina Novikova, Nadezhda Nikitenko, Alexander Filonenko, Yuri Vestel and others. The column "From the Spiritual Heritage" for the first time publishes touching memoirs of the daughter of the new martyr Dmitry Klepinin about her father, an unpublished important letter from Fr. Georgy Florovsky and Serhiy Averintsev's report in the Italian parliament, which had not been translated before. The collection will be interesting and useful for specialists in various fields of humanities, teachers and students of secular and spiritual schools, as well as a wide range of readers.
The collection presents the materials of the annual international conference "Assumption Readings", held in 2006 in Kiev. Christian understanding of the human person and its integrity in the face of modern problems and in the historical perspective has been the subject of reflection of famous theologians, philosophers, historians, art critics, journalists, writers. The reader will find here the texts of such authors as Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret, Metropolitan of the Lebanese Mountains George (Hodr), Yannaras, Fr. Michael Van Pareis, Fr. Enzo Bianchi, archim. Job (Gecha), Fr. Vladimir Zelinsky, Antoine Arzhakovsky, Adalberto Maynardi, Elena Glazova, Victor Malakhov, Fr. Hugh Weibru, Yevgeny Rashkovsky, Marina Novikova, Nadezhda Nikitenko, Alexander Filonenko, Yuri Vestel, etc. Georgy Florovsky and Sergei Averintsev's report in the Italian parliament, which had not been translated before. The collection will be interesting and useful for specialists in various fields of humanities, teachers and students of secular and spiritual schools, as well as a wide range of readers.