Re: Death of Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Russian Christian writer jailed by Bolsheviks

On Tue, 13 May 2008 05:27:04 -0700 (PDT), Dan <dannyk1001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On May 13, 3:43 am, Steve Hayes <hayesm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Christian writer jailed for her beliefs by the Soviet
>> authorities
>
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>
>>Krakhmalnikova became an
>> active democrat, calling on leaders of the Orthodox church
>> to repent of its collaboration with the authorities (which
>> they never did).
>
>This may be why she is so little known--even to Orthodox Christians.
>One more notch on Agent Drozdov's gun.

Possibly. I first heard of her from an article she wrote in the journal of
the
Keston Institute, of which the bosser up is, or was, Michael Bourdeaux,
who
wrote the obit. 

Here's an abstact:

    Krakhmal'nikova, Zoya, 1992. Russophobia, antisemitism and
         Christianity: some remarks on an anti-Russian idea, in
         Religion, State and Society, Vol. 20(1). Page 7-28.
              I.R. Shafarevich, a Russian mathematician, has written a
book
              called Russophobia, in which he puts forward antisemitic and
              nationalist ideas as Christian. Ilya Glazunov, an artist who
              exhibited in 1978, could be considered the father of this
              idea - his painting of the prodigal son shows the son
              returning, not to God, but to Russia, and depicts Satan with
              what the then fa****onable priest, Fr Dmitri Dudko, called an
              'unRussian face'. These nationalist and antisemitic ideas,
              however, are not Christian, but are contrary to the Orthodox
              tradition. It is not by imagining enemies, but by returning
              to its Orthodox roots, including the principle of loving
              one's enemies, that Russia will be true to itself. It is
              Shafarevic who displays the real Russophobia, by inciting
              hatred.


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