Soloviev's AmenA Russian Orthodox Argument for the Papacyby Rev. Ray Ryland During the past six or seven centuries, succeeding pontiffs have repeatedly invited the separated Eastern Churches to return to communion with Rome. The few responses from the East have been negative - with only one exception, as far as I can determine. One member of an Eastern Orthodox Church responded positively in print... a Russian Orthodox layman named Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900). Soloviev was a philosopher, a theologian, a poet, a mystic, a political thinker, and a literary cricit. In The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, Hans Urs...