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Lectures on Godmanhood

Vladimir Solovyov

Twelve public lectures given in St Petersburg in 1878 before an audience that included Dostoevsky and, one evening, Tolstoy; published 1878–1881. Solovyov presents Christianity as the culmination of religious history: God is all-unity; Sophia, the divine idea of the world; man, the place where creation can freely unite with God; Christ, the God-man, inaugurates the process by which all humanity must become Godmanhood. It is the text that founded modern Russian religious philosophy.