A collection of articles by one of the most prominent Orthodox thinkers of the 20th century. Articles of a very different nature: ecumenism and Eurasianism, Dostoevsky and the Slavophiles, the Fifth Council of Ephesus and Elder Silouan, social issues, civilization and Christianity, the Eucharist and Sophia, the Wisdom of God.

The collection presents the following articles by G.V. Florovsky:

CHURCHING SCHOOLSWESTERN INFLUENCES IN RUSSIAN THEOLOGY ABOUT HE-HISTORICAL NATIONS OBEDIENCE AND WITNESS THE SOCIAL PROBLEM IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH RESIDENT SILUAN (1866–1938) THE QUESTION OF THE SPIRIT THE STATE OF CHRIST AN HISTORIAN HUMAN WISDOM AND THE WISDOM OF GOD “ECUMENICAL SUFFERING” THE AGE OF PATRISTICS AND ESCHATOLOGY THE OLD TESTAMENT AND CHURCH FATHERS RESURRECTION OF LIFE Ecumenical Tradition and Slavic Idea Eurasian Temptation EUCHARISTY AND CONFOLILITY DID CHRIST LIVE? ON THE HISTORY OF THE BOARD OF THE CHURCH ABOUT THE REVERENCE OF SOPHIA, THE WISDOM OF GOD, IN BYZANTIUM AND IN RUSSIA THE VIRGIN PROBLEM LEMATICS OF CHRISTIAN REUNIONRELIGIOUS THEMES OF DOSTOYEVSKYCHRISTIANITY AND CIVILIZATIONABOUT THE DEATH OF THE CROSSCHRIST AND HIS CHURCH