God, Man and the Church is a penetrating examination of the human relationship - both as an individual and in society - with God. For Solovyev, personal religion can only be satisfied in social religion. Private prayer finds its fulfilment in the Church's liturgy, and the Church is the highest expression of humanity's religious aspirations. Here Solovyev's mystical understanding of the Church provides the basis for a fundamental analysis of the idea of the state from a Christian viewpoint. During the years after its first publication in Russian in 1885, God, Man and the Church rapidly established a reputation as a seminal work of Russian theology. Donald Attwater's translation, first published in 1937 and which made the work available in the English language for the first time, has become a classic in its own right.

About the Author
Vladimir Solovyev was born in 1853, the son of the historian Sergius Mikhailovich Solovyev. He became a junior professor at the University of Moscow at the age of twenty-one, where he remained until his lectures gave the authorities the excuse they needed to dismiss a man whose Western sympathies had made him unpopular. He spent the rest of his life writing and travelling. He died on 31 July 1900.

Reviews
"[...] Solovyev disentangled essential Orthodoxy from Slavophilism and developed a critique of the social order of the age of Alexander III, basing his arguments on the Bible and tradition. He thus offers an alternative both to Tsarist reaction and to socialist revolution ... we can be grateful that it is available again in this reprint of Donald Attwater's English translation of 1937." John Arnold, Theology, vol 79, issue 49



Book Information
ISBN 9780227176283
Author Vladimir Solovyev
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint James Clarke & Co Ltd
Publisher James Clarke & Co Ltd
Weight(grams) 198g