Seraphim Rose

American convert to Orthodox Christianity who became a hieromonk in California — writing Nihilism, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, and The Soul After Death — a significant figure in American Orthodox intellectual life whose writings on the nihilist trajectory of Western thought influenced a generation of traditionalists.

Applied Orthodox Christian intellectual resources to the diagnosis of Western modernity — Rose's account of nihilism's four stages (liberalism, realism, vitalism, destructivism) as a single trajectory from the abandonment of truth remains the most systematic Orthodox engagement with the pathology of modern Western thought.