Really appreciated this, will have to re-read to better digest. Bulgakov is new to me, but I love the bit I’ve just skimmed about religious materialism. Realizing orthodox theologians are a big gap for me in general.
32k innocents deliberately killed by the regime and you focus on a tragic accident 🙄. Gotta love all these white Leftists always feeling the need to double down on hatred of all things Western
I appreciated this juxtaposition, thanks for writing it. Admittedly, Augustine’s vision as you characterize him strikes me as a good deal less constrained by his world’s horizon than you take him to be, but it’s a mark of honesty and intellectual seriousness on your part that I can depart from your judgment while sympathizing with the characterization. I came away from this a somewhat reaffirmed Augustinian wrt time and eternity, with all of the potential historical pessimism that goes along with that. But I think there’s an ocean of daylight between providence and fatalism, and I much agree that confusing them often invites a repugnant complacency. We can at least pray that those of us relatively unmoved by the judgment of history may yet be all the more moved by a fear of history’s judge.
Really appreciated this, will have to re-read to better digest. Bulgakov is new to me, but I love the bit I’ve just skimmed about religious materialism. Realizing orthodox theologians are a big gap for me in general.
Engaging with Solovyov and Bulgakov is some of the most fun you can have in modern theology 🙂↕️
32k innocents deliberately killed by the regime and you focus on a tragic accident 🙄. Gotta love all these white Leftists always feeling the need to double down on hatred of all things Western
Magnificent and harrowing
I appreciated this juxtaposition, thanks for writing it. Admittedly, Augustine’s vision as you characterize him strikes me as a good deal less constrained by his world’s horizon than you take him to be, but it’s a mark of honesty and intellectual seriousness on your part that I can depart from your judgment while sympathizing with the characterization. I came away from this a somewhat reaffirmed Augustinian wrt time and eternity, with all of the potential historical pessimism that goes along with that. But I think there’s an ocean of daylight between providence and fatalism, and I much agree that confusing them often invites a repugnant complacency. We can at least pray that those of us relatively unmoved by the judgment of history may yet be all the more moved by a fear of history’s judge.
Fwiw, this was more or less my own recent set of thoughts on a similar theme: https://harrydagostino.substack.com/p/dividing-theodicy-disentangling-evils?r=172l8&utm_medium=ios