Milan Žust, s.j.

This article by Father Milan Žust, S.J., representative of Cardinal Walter Kasper at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, offers a theological reflection on the conditions necessary for ecumenical dialogue. Taking both a speculative and pastoral approach, the author examines the relationships between theological inquiry, spiritual life, and interpersonal relations. The central idea is that the notion of *communio*, rooted in Trinitarian theology and the ecclesiology of Vatican II, constitutes the indispensable foundation of all ecumenical engagement. Žust shows that the obstacles to dialogue — lack of trust, prejudices, historical divisions — are not only doctrinal but relational, and that theological language, understood as symbolic and antinomic, must be reclaimed in this spirit. The contribution of the article lies in the articulation between "spiritual ecumenism," inner conversion, and theological dialogue, drawing extensively on the thought of Cardinal Kasper.

This article by Milan Žust, S.J., focuses on the figure of Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (1882–1937), theologian, scholar, and martyr of the Russian Orthodox Church. Drawing on biographical and theological synthesis, the study traces Florensky's spiritual and intellectual journey from his childhood experiences to his death in the Gulag. The central idea is that the experience of Christ constitutes the unifying thread running through his entire life and work: it articulates his conception of the symbol as mediation between the empirical world and the mysterious world, his relationship to truth as a living and Trinitarian reality, and his understanding of love as the foundation of all authentic knowledge. The article makes a twofold contribution: it offers an accessible introduction to a considerable body of work that remains insufficiently explored in the West, and it shows how Florensky's implicit Christology, often criticized for its lack of systematization, finds its coherence in an existential confession carried through to martyrdom.