Berdayev’s refined vision discerned Divine Humanity in the Church, and at the centre of church life, the principles of personhood and sobornost. He spoke of of the incompleteness of the personal principle within the church and how it has been shunted aside by the symbolic-hierarchical principle, and about an unnecessary shift in focus away from prophecy and toward hieratic priesthood, in which situation it is not the person himself who is venerated, but “the bearer of power, itself an impersonal hierarchal principle.
Berdyaev was born on this date in 1874. He has influenced me immensely.
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