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"Profound writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest polymaths. ""Perhaps the most remarkable person devoured by the Gulag"" is how Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described Pavel Florensky, a Russian Orthodox mathematician, scientist, linguist, art historian, philosopher, theologian, and priest who was martyred during the Bolshevik purges of the 1930s"

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Boris Jakim's translation-the work of a seasoned translator with a keen scholarly appreciation of the Russian spiritual and theological world-is excellent: bold, fresh and clear, contemporary without sacrificing the distinctiveness of the setting. -- Rowan Williams

<b>Rowan Williams</b> Boris Jakim's translation--the work of a seasoned translator with a keen scholarly appreciation of the Russian spiritual and theological world--is excellent: bold, fresh and clear, contemporary without sacrificing the distinctiveness of the setting. <b>Richard Pevear</b> Jakim is one of the best translators from the Russian in our time. He has given us superb English versions of a series of major works from Russian philosophy. <b>Paul Valliere</b> It will be a long time before Russian theology finds an English-speaking interpreter as faithful and skilled as Jakim.

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Pavel Florensky (1882–1937) was one of the preeminent Russian Orthodox thinkers of the twentieth century. His best-known work is The Pillar and Ground of Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters. Boris Jakim is the foremost translator of Russian religiousthought into English. His published translations includeworks by S.L. Frank, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir Solovyov,and Sergius Bulgakov.

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