ABSTRACT

The thinking of the Russian immigration community, as shown in its major review The Way (Put’) between 1925 and 1940, should be understood as being mythological, i.e. as being neither purely symbolic nor purely Cartesian but rather as a synthesis of both. 1 This was made possible by the acceptance, in principle, by the human intellect of the hypothesis of the hypothesis of the incarnation of the Trinitarian God. 2 If for no other reason, the esteem these Russian intellectuals have enjoyed throughout the twentieth century among such moral and intellectual authorities as John Mott, Patriarch Athenagoras, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Rowan Williams showed that this renewal of mytho-logical thinking within the Russian immigrant community did not have anything provincial about it and was extremely important. If this line of thinking had been underrated, this was due to a succession of evolutions suffered by modern secular reflection – a fact admirably demonstrated by Charles Taylor in his masterful studies (1989, 1991, 2007).