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Rowan Williams: A Cambridge Celebration Video Stream

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Starting tomorrow, Monday 11 September, at 9:00 AM GMT +1 (4 AM ET, 1 AM PT) the conference Rowan Williams: A Cambridge Celebration will be streamed live on Youtube at the following link. The conference details and header image are taken from the conference’s website, and the former are provided below.  Rowan Williams is Honorary Professor

A Theological Aesthetics of Resistance: Vincent van Gogh as Reader of Dostoevsky

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This paper was given at the international symposium, Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought in a Time of Catastrophe, which took place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, March 2023 by Alex Villas Boas. The perspective adopted in this paper is that of political spirituality, in the sense that the intersection between religion and politics mutually

Call for Papers: LEV KARSAVIN: THE WAY OF THE RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER IN LITHUANIA

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Call for Papers: LEV KARSAVIN: THE WAY OF THE RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER IN LITHUANIA Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Non-Governmental Organization “Dialogues of Cultures” in Vilnius Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought Lev Platonovich Karsavin (1882–1952), a follower of Vladimir Solovyov’s

Interview with Paul J. Contino on His Book Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs and His Audience with Pope Francis

This is an interview with Distinguished Professor Paul J. Contino on his book Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs and his audience with Pope Francis. It was conducted on June 22, 2023 by Peter Gregory Winsky. Paul’s book can be purchased here, and a Russian language edition of the book will soon be available

Mikhail Epstein’s Religion after Atheism and the Russian “Argument from Personhood”

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This paper was part of the opening roundtable celebrating Mikhail Epstein at the Inaugural Conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought which took place at the Northwestern University, April 2023. The roundtable included Caryl Emerson, Alyssa deBlasio, Victoria Juharyan, and the author of this paper, Randall A.