Masterwork of Pavel Florensky published 1914. Structured as twelve letters, it offers a phenomenological account of Orthodox Christian faith, exploring antinomy, friendship, Sophia, asceticism, and the nature of truth as a lived experience rather than abstract proposition.
Established 'concrete metaphysics' — theology grounded in lived experience and paradox rather than Scholastic abstraction. Its treatment of antinomy and the feminine divine (Sophia) was formative for 20th-century Orthodox thought.
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