Московский Сретенский монастырь
совместно с американским православным
издательством Покров-пресс
выпустил в свет английский
перевод книги профессора Московской
духовной академии А. И. Осипова
«Путь разума в поисках истины».
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New from Sretensky Monastery, a classic of Christian
apologetics by Professor Alexei I. Osipov: The Search
for Truth on the Path of Reason, is now available in
English. Alexei Ilych Osipov of the Moscow Theological
Academy is possibly the most widely known professor of
Theology in Russia today.
This book fills the order of a needed genre: Christian
Apologetics for intellectual seekers and products of the
Age of Reason. The author believes that, ”It is
natural for a Christian to know ‘the certainty of
those things, wherein he has been instructed' (cf. Lk.
1:4). But, as the Apostle Peter writes, you should be
ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh
you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and
fear (1 Pet. 3:15).”
Prof. Osipov presents an overview of Western philosophy,
the roots of religion and atheism, the relationship
between religion and science, different forms of paganism,
spiritual experience, and other related topics. He
provides intelligent and clear arguments against atheism,
and clearly delineates between all the various religious
experiences, contrasting them with Orthodox experience and
patristic teaching. This book has proved invaluable for
seminary students and pastors in Russia as that country
emerges from decades of religious persecution and a
militant atheist regime. The Western philosophies and
systems of thought described in this overview have left
such a deep impressions on our society as well that we can
scarcely see beyond their influence.
Osipov shows also the flip-side of Western rationalism,
which is the various forms of mysticism and paganism that
continually reproduce themselves in different guises. This
book can help us to discern all of these trends,
manifestations, and world views from an Orthodox,
patristic perspective.
The book also includes a description of how Igumen Nikon
(Vorobyev), who was Prof. Osipov's spiritual guide and
instructor from an early age, came to a sure and direct
knowledge of God after desperate years of fruitless
searching through science, philosophy, and psychology. He
finally found the truth in his native Orthodox Christian
religion; he then embarked upon the infinitely fulfilling
study of the ”science of sciences,” found in
the unanimous experience of the fathers of our Church.
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