This book follows Vladimir Lossky's attempt to enlist in the French army after the Nazi invasion of France in 1940. It records his reflections on suffering; the true nature of Christian or Western civilization; the rightness or otherwise of war; the problematic relationship between Church and State; what we mean by a "nation"; and secularization. Such issues are mulled over, not as arid abstractions, but by someone who, as he walks across an increasingly war-torn landscape, quite literally has his feet on the ground.

Professor Constantine Niarchos is Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Athens, and specialises in the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and early Christian thought. In this interview he discusses modern asceticism, the question of the future of Orthodox Christianity, and how Christians can best tackle the crises of the modern world.

Кандидат политических наук священник Сергий Модель, секретарь Брюссельско-Бельгийской архиепископии Московского Патриархата и преподаватель Русскoй духовнoй семинарии во Франции, представляет общую картину Pусского православия в Бельгии, основываннyю не только на анализе архивныx документов, но и на понимании контекста, в котором живут православные в Бельгии.