The mystical theology of V. Lossky and the West
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This article examines the reception of Vladimir Lossky's thought in the West, and more particularly the influence of his work *The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church* on Western Christians led by this reading to Orthodoxy. The author adopts an analytical and comparative approach, seeking to identify the intellectual and spiritual conditions that made this reception possible. The central idea is that Lossky's success in the West can be explained by a convergence: on one side, the theologian's dual Eastern and Western culture; on the other, a Western Christianity in crisis of rationalism, rediscovering mystical experience, apophatic theology and the personal responsibility of the laity. The contribution of the article is to show that Lossky's theology responds to deep aspirations of Western Christian renewal, thus revealing a common foundation between East and West in the undivided Tradition.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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