What is it about?
Revelation is not the integrating concept of Nicolas Berdyaev’s religious thought—freedom and humanity fill that role. Yet the self-revelation of God is a point of connection between central ideas of Berdyaev’s religious philosophy. To approach Berdyaev’s concept of revelation, one must look at his ideas on truth, freedom, spirit, knowledge, objectification, the human subject and the very nature of God. This article seeks to explore Berdyaev’s idea of revelation in the context of his philosophy.
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Why is it important?
This is interesting particularly because of Berdyaev’s association of revelation with the spiritual, including the Holy Spirit. There is little published work (in Western languages at least) on Berdyaev’s concept of revelation.The secondary sources relate to the context within Berdyaev’s philosophy of his concept of revelation, rather than his ideas on revelation itself.
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The experience of Christ in freedom is the inner consistency and unifying mark of Berdyaev’s religious work. He begins not with God, nor with humanity, but with Jesus Christ, the God-man. All else comes out of this. Berdyaev seeks not to prove the reality of God but to bear witness to the freedom he knows in Christ.
Mr Brian McKinlay
Charles Sturt University
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This page is a summary of: Revelation in Nicolas Berdyaev’s Religious Philosophy, Open Theology, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/opth-2017-0009.
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