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The Meaning of Life
S. L. Frank
Translated by Boris Jakim
Originally published in Russian in 1925, The Meaning of Life is a distillation of S. L.
Frank’s bitter experience during the Revolution and his post-Revolution exile.
It is, quite simply, a book about the search for meaning in suffering, and it
displays an extraordinary spiritual profundity rooted in personal experience.
Translator Boris Jakim calls it “the closest thing we have in the twenty-first
century to the book of Job.” Jakim’s masterful translation into English brings
Frank’s powerful thought to a world still — and always — searching for
meaning.
S. L. Frank (1877–1950) was one of the most outstanding Russian philosophers
of the modern era. An opponent of Marxism and Soviet communism, he was a
leading figure of the Russian religious renaissance in the early twentieth
century.
Boris Jakim is one of the foremost living translators of Russian religious
thought into English.
Philosophical Theology
August / 978-0-8028-6527-4
6″ × 9″ paperback
154 pages / $25.00 [£16.99]
Jacob’s Ladder
On Angels
Sergius Bulgakov
Translated and introduced by Thomas Allan Smith
Few of the great Russian author Sergius Bulgakov’s writings achieve the lyrical
heights of Jacob’s Ladder. In this book, originally published in 1929, Bulgakov
discusses the doctrine of angels and their importance for contemporary
humanity. He includes reflections on the meaning of love, the sexes, death, and
the Christian hope of resurrection, meditating on the Wisdom of God in the
creation.
Jacob’s Ladder completes the development of Divine Sophia and creation begun
in The Burning Bush and The Friend of the Bridegroom, which together constitute
Bulgakov’s first dogmatic trilogy.
Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944) was the twentieth century’s leading Orthodox
theologian. His other books include The Philosophy of Economy, The Unfading Light,
The Friend of the Bridegroom, The Burning Bush, The Lamb of God, and The Comforter.
Theology
October / 978-0-8028-6516-8
6″ × 9″ paperback
184 pages / $25.00 [£16.99]
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