Posted on 03/27/2016 9:18:29 AM PDT by don-o
At the conclusion of The End of Our Time, Berdyaev once again stressed the unreality of politics–as a distraction and a hindrance from that which really matters, the order of the human soul towards the highest things, especially God and eternity.
Or, as Berdyaev put it, politics attempts to remove us from “the interior life.”
For the Christian to assume victory over the next century, he concluded in 1923, would be sheer folly. Throughout the West, in every type of regime (free and unfree), he feared ruin. Far from establishing a century of progress, God was calling Christians back into “the catacombs, and from there to conquer the world anew.”
As Christians–of whatever stripe–”we are entering an epoch of ill-omened revelations and we must fearlessly face up to realities. And there is found the meaning of our unhappy joyless age.”
Reading Nicholas Berdyaev is not uplifting, but it is truly enlightening, in the best sense of this distorted word.
Certainly, looking back from 90 years after Berdyaev wrote these words, one would be hard pressed not to see not only the mystic but also, perhaps even more importantly, the prophet.
(Excerpt) Read more at theimaginativeconservative.org ...
Thx so much for the help on bookmarks.
Pretty simple .. I should have looked harder
Happy Easter
Yeah I think he did in fact at every mass he mentioned him.
Dylan was a no good hack poet.
He was a poser then and is a never been now. Not to mention... he was a terrible singer.
Other than that ...good post.
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