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The Hollow and the Holy: How God Found Eugene Rose Before Eugene Rose Found God

The Hollow and the Holy: How God Found Eugene Rose Before Eugene Rose Found God

Brick Hut Press

Paperback

Series: The Monk of Platina: A Life in Three Books, Book 1

Religious BiographiesBible Studies

ISBN13: 9798951762313
Publisher: Brick Hut Press
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Hieromonk Seraphim Rose was an American Orthodox monk of the Platina monastery who brought the patristic tradition to the West. How does a student of Chinese philosophy descend into nihilism before finding his spiritual father in a holy wonderworker?

The account begins in the Protestant world of San Diego, where Eugene Dennis Rose feels an acute sense that something essential is missing. His search drives him through an academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where his thesis on the Tao Te Ching becomes a mirror of his own spiritual emptiness. The intellectual game turns dangerous in San Francisco, leading him from the fluid Eastern philosophy of Alan Watts into the abyss of nihilism. The decisive turning point arrives when he meets Gleb Podmoshensky and his future spiritual father, Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco, who anchor his restless mind in the living joy of Orthodox Christianity. The volume leaves Eugene as a chrismated son of the Church, opening a bookstore on Geary Boulevard to share the faith he has found.

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