This book in Russian Language

One of the most influential Russian theology books

"Cerkov Odna" ["The Church is One"], by Aleksei Khomiakoff [Aleksei Stepanovich Khomiakov], complete text of the second edition with the complete Foreward by Y.F. Samarin, edited and published by the Brotherhood of St. Job of Pochaev of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Montreal, Canada, 1975; published with the permission and approval of His Grace the Most Reverend Vitaly Archbishop of Montreal and Canada of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. [The original Samarin edition was published in 1867 in Prague]

Alexei Stepanovich Khomiakov [1804-1860] was a Russian intellectual and religious writer of the nineteenth century who espoused an ecclesiology centered around the idea of Sobornost and gave rise to the Slavophile movement.

Khomiakov's life centered on Moscow. He viewed this "thousand-domed city" as an epitome of the Russian way of life. Equally successful as a landlord and conversationalist, he published little during his lifetime. His writings were published posthumously by his friends and disciples and came to exert great influence on the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian lay philosophers, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constantine Pobedonostsev, and Vladimir Solovyov.

For Khomiakov, the ideologies of socialism and capitalism were equally repugnant offspring of Western decadence. The West failed to solve human spiritual problems, as it stressed competition at the expense of cooperation. In his own words, "Rome kept unity at the expense of freedom, while Protestants had freedom but lost unity."

Khomiakov's own ideals revolved around the term sobornost, being the Slavonic equivalent of catholicity found in the Nicene Creed and loosely translated as "togetherness" or "symphony". Khomiakov viewed the Russian obshchina [peasants' community] as a perfect example of sobornost and extolled the Russian peasants for their humility.

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Soft cover, 6"x9"; 72 pages, one b/w illustration, very good binding and condition. [nvhb35]