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Hugo Ball
Byzantine Christianity
Byzantinisches christentum

Publisher: Vladimir Dal, 2008
Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN 978-5-93615-058-6
Format: 60x84/16 (~ 143h205 mm)

A book by German philosopher Hugo Balla "Byzantine Christianity»

July 16, 2008 19:01

The publishing house "Vladimir Dal 'a book by German philosopher Hugo Balla" Byzantine Christianity ". The book, written in 1923, according to the author, was to be the first volume of the planned works of the fathers of the Church.

Hugo Ball (1886-1927) - the leader of the avant-garde Zurich, founder of the "Cabaret Voltaire", "father of Dada," writer and philosopher. At the beginning of World War I he became friendly with Hermann Hesse, philosophical discussions which have left a trace in the "Byzantine Christianity".

Heroes of this book - John Climacus, Simeon Stylites, and Dionysius the Areopagite. The author's task - to show the continuing importance of spiritual achievements and creations of these ministers of the Truth. The presentation is not in chronological order, but inward, to the origins of the Christian culture of the ascetic aristocratic John Climacus through intellectual concerns of Dionysius the Areopagite to the dizzying ease of Simeon.

Hugo thought Balla is fundamentally different from the English-language Christian apologetics. A stark reminder of the sin of preferred credit research victories of Christianity. He saw as the Christian idea of ​​moving closer to certain provisions of the ancient Near East or tradition and achieved crystal clarity, the victorious over sin.

The latest data for its time, analytic philosophy, ethnology, psychoanalysis attracted credit in order to more clearly identify the eternal symbols upon which the European culture. All this makes the author's position is close to Orthodoxy.

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