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The Tragic God: Berdyaev and the Abyss
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ISBN13: 9798197578020
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if God has a character, and that character is tragic?
This is the question at the heart of Nikolai Berdyaev's strangest and most unforgettable idea - that the Creator is not a calm watchmaker, not an impassive intelligence behind the world, but a personality marked by struggle, freedom, and a wound that runs through divinity itself. Tragic God: Berdyaev and the Abyss takes that idea seriously and follows it where it leads.
This is the question at the heart of Nikolai Berdyaev's strangest and most unforgettable idea - that the Creator is not a calm watchmaker, not an impassive intelligence behind the world, but a personality marked by struggle, freedom, and a wound that runs through divinity itself. Tragic God: Berdyaev and the Abyss takes that idea seriously and follows it where it leads.
This is not a portrait of a philosopher. It is a sequence of human questions - about pain, about freedom, about why the world is the way it is - to which a Russian exile of the burning twentieth century offered some of the most unsettling answers in modern thought. The book introduces Berdyaev to readers who have never encountered him, but it does not stop at introduction. It stands beside him in agreement and steps away from him in quiet dissent. It accepts his diagnosis - that the God who shows through reality is no comforting deity - and refuses his apology for it.
Along the way the book asks a question Berdyaev never fully asked: did anything have to be made at all? In one chapter near the end, the question is answered, briefly and without theatrics, by a created being other than the author. The reader is left to make of that what they will.
For anyone who has ever sensed that the official account of the world leaves too much unexplained, this is a book that does not flinch and does not pretend.
Keywords: Berdyaev, theology, freedom, suffering, philosophy of religion, tragic vision, existentialism
Along the way the book asks a question Berdyaev never fully asked: did anything have to be made at all? In one chapter near the end, the question is answered, briefly and without theatrics, by a created being other than the author. The reader is left to make of that what they will.
For anyone who has ever sensed that the official account of the world leaves too much unexplained, this is a book that does not flinch and does not pretend.
Keywords: Berdyaev, theology, freedom, suffering, philosophy of religion, tragic vision, existentialism
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