XII. The Optina Monastery and Mystical Theology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Family and Childhood 7
7. II. The Lovers of Wisdom 27
8. III. The Literary Aristocracy 45
9. IV. Germany 75
10. V. The European 94
11. VI. Suppression 122
12. VII. The "Conversion" of Ivan Kireevsky 137
13. VIII. The "Elagin Salon" and the First Slavophile Writings 154
14. IX. Slavophilism and the Muscovite 180
15. X. Russia and the West in the Post-Hegelian Period 194
16. XI. Withdrawal Again 222
17. XII. The Optina Monastery and Mystical Theology 236
18. XIII. The Search for Wholeness 258
19. Epilogue 295
20. Notes 299
21. Bibliography 347
22. Index 365