The Meaning of Reality

Forewoed by Christos Yannaras

The texts that comprise this book wew of an occasional nature, published in English in journals or edited volumes. They were colected and prepared for publication in a single volume by my dear friend, Father Maxim Vasiljevic, bishop of the Serbian Church in California. Serbia, the contry and its people, has lived, in the last sixty years, a true martyrdom: They experienced the ingumanity and horror of both the Marxist-communist and the capitalist – „liberal“ aspects of historical materialism, a typical offspring of the Enlightenment. God, however, gave the Serbs a counterweight to this torment: a group of bishops who are an invaluable resource – not only for thie people but for the whole ecumenical Orthodox Church – for the practical illumination of the „meaning“ of our existence, of our enigmatic age, and of history in general …