Tolstoy's "Enthusiasm"

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

26 June 06

Dear Colleagues,
Jan Zielinski's response is appropriate even from the viewpoint of 
theology.  The classic work by John Hick, _An Interpretation of 
Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent_ (2nd ed., 2004, Yale 
University Press) lists Marxism/Communism alongside the other great 
post-axial religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism, 
Christianity, and Islam.

Regards to the list,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Zielinski wrote:

>Edward Dumanis:
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>>Which reminds me that French was the language of Russian nobility (I do
>>not remember it now, but I guess it was from the XVIII century), and so
>>French words were mixed with Russian ones in spoken Russian. Since the
>>word "enthousiasme" exists in French, it means that from the time when the
>>revolutionary-political sense of this word appeared in French, it most
>>likely appeared in Russian as well.
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>One could reach further back and come to the Greek enthousiasmós, which has
>God inside - hence the religius source of that attitude...
>
>Jan Zielinski
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