Vladimir Lossky

Vladimir Nikolaïevitch Lossky ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Лосский , Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Losski ; born June 8, 1903 in Göttingen , † February 7, 1958 in Paris ) was an Orthodox theologian .

Life

His father Nikolai Onufrijewitsch Losski was professor of philosophy at the University of St. Petersburg ; the family was in Göttingen at the time of his birth . Vladimir Lossky spent his youth in Saint Petersburg , where he also attended high school. He attended the trial and execution of Metropolitan Benjamin of Saint Petersburg . These events moved him strongly.

First he studied literature from 1920 at the University of Saint Petersburg . His family was expelled in 1922. He continued his studies in Prague and moved to Paris in 1924 . He studied medieval philosophy at the Sorbonne and was influenced by Etienne Gilson . He completed his studies with a diploma in Paris.

Lossky saw himself in the role of witnessing Orthodox universality in the West. He deepened his studies on the Eastern and Western traditions of Christianity. In 1945 he became the first dean of the Saint-Denys Institute (Paris). He taught dogmatics and church history there until 1953. In particular, his book The mystical theology of the oriental church made him known.

Works

• Essai sur la théologie mystique de l'Église d'Orient , Préface par Saulius Rumšas, op; éd. du Cerf, coll. "Foi Vivante", 1944 (Reédition 2005)
  • German: The mystical theology of the oriental church , Styria, Graz, 1961
• with Leonid Ouspensky : The meaning of icons ; Olten: Graf, Bern, 1952
• Vision de Dieu , éd. Delachaux & Niestlé, 1962
  • German: Schau Gottes , Zurich: EVZ-Verlag, 1964
• À l'image et à la ressemblance de Dieu , Paris, éd. Aubier-Montaigne, coll. "Le Buisson Ardent", 1967
• Theology négative et connaissance de Dieu chez Maître Eckhart , ed. Vrin, 1960; 1973; 1998
• La paternité spirituelle en Russie aux XVIIIème et XIXème (with Nicolas Arseniev ), Éditions de l ' Abbaye de Bellefontaine , 1977, coll. «  Spiritualité Orientale  », n °. 21st
• Sept jours sur les routes de France: June 1940 , Éditions du Cerf, 2001
• Orthodox theology, an introduction ; St. Vladimir's Seminary Press , Crestwood, NY, 1978
• Le sens des icônes , éd. du Cerf, 2003
• Théologie dogmatique , sous la direction d ' Olivier Clément et Michel Stavrou , collection Patrimoines Orthodoxie , Cerf, 2012

Web links

• Various texts by V. Lossky are available on the website of site Pages orthodoxes la Transfiguration .
• "Vladimir Lossky et la théologie de l'Occident médiéval" ( Memento from February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), lecture by Nicolai Lossky.
• Messager de l'Église orthodoxe russe N ° 8 (mars-avril 2008) , special edition for Vladimir Lossky.
• Podcasts audio of "L'oeuvre de théologique Vladimir Lossky" on Congress St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute , on Saturday, October 4, 2008. Vidéo : P.Nicolas Ozoline provides Losskys Congress represents.