A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Naše postojanje skriva mračne i svetle strane, i veliko je umeće prepoznati ih i razlučiti

Nesvakidašnja knjiga „Portreti junaka i junakinja Dostojevskog“ vladike Maksima je i monografija i teoretsko-filozofski pogled na književnost velikog ruskog pisca, a u njoj su sabrani i likovni radovi vladike inspirisani Dostojevskim i njegovim junacima. Knjiga je uz prisustvo vladike predstavljena 8. novembra 2022. u knjižari Delfi SKC. O knjizi je govorila i urednica Dubravka Dragović Šehović koja je istakla da i sama izuzetno voli ovog ruskog klasika i da je rasla i sazrevala čitajući njegova dela: „Specifičnost ove knjige u odnosu na druge koje se bave likom i delom Dostojevskog jeste činjenica da je ovo monografija obogaćena sjajnim esejima koji su veoma lepo povezani u celinu tako da u njoj mogu da uživaju i oni koji vole Dostojevskog i oni koji tek treba da ga otkriju.“

Na pitanje o motivima da se ovako studiozno i uz brojnu literaturu bavi Dostojevskim vladika Maksim je odgovorio:

„Čini mi se da je glavni podsticaj za bavljenje Dostojevskim i njegovim junacima bio on sam, to jest njegovo dejstvo na sve nas od davnih dana, ali i u novije vreme. Dostojevski me je oduvek privlačio jer je posmatrao tamnu stranu postojanja, ne samo svetlu, pa samim tim mi je postao zanimljiv. Još je Umberto Eko rekao da se velika literatura bavi gubitnicima. Dostojevski je bio takav i zahvaljujući tome je postao glas bezglasnih i nada za obeznađene. Priče o uspešnima i pobednicima nisu zanimljive. To me je privuklo: njegova dubina i svest da naše postojanje skriva i mračne i svetle strane, i da je veliko umeće prepoznati ih i razlučiti.“

Vladika Maksim je istakao da u svetlu novih političkih zbivanja nije prestalo interesovanje za Dostojevskim na Zapadu.

„Kod Dostojevskog nije tema samo Bog, niti je tema samo čovek, ni duša, već iskonska potreba čoveka da živi autentično. On opisuje neuspehe i promašaje na izuzetan način. Možda ne toliko stilski ubedljivo kao drugi ruski pisci, ali u svakom slučaju to čini širokim potezima poput Van Goga koga sam i prepoznao u njemu, a povezao sam ih upravo zbog tragičnosti sa kojom su se nosili.“

Knjiga sadrži brojne radove vladike Maksima, uglavnom akril na platnu, a oslikani su starac Tihon, Ivan Karamazov, Sonja Marmeladova, Klara Olsufjevna, Nikolaj Stavrogin, ali i sam Dostojevski i mnogi drugi likovi.

Izložba likovnih radova vladike Maksima „Silazak u podzemlje“ sa radovima iz knjige trenutno se može videti u Galeriji Narodne biblioteke „Dr Dušan Radić“ u Vrnjačkoj Banji, a publika bi početkom naredne godine mogla da je vidi i u Beogradu.

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Notes On Ecumenism

Written in 1972 by St. Abba Justin Popovich, edited by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, translated from Serbian by Aleksandra Stojanovich, and proofread by Fr Miroljub Ruzich

Abba Justin’s manuscript legacy (on which Bishop Athanasius have been working for a couple of years preparing an edition of The Complete Works ), also includes a parcel of sheets/small sheets of paper (in the 1/4 A4 size) with the notes on Ecumenism (written in pencil and dating from the period when he was working on his book “The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism”; there are also references to the writings of St. Bishop Nikolai [Velimirovich], short excerpts copied from his Sermons, some of which were quoted in the book).

The editor presents the Notes authentically, as he has found them in the manuscripts (his words inserted in the text, as clarification, are put between the slashes /…/; all the footnotes are ours).—In the appendix are present the facsimiles of the majority of Abba’s Notes which were supposed to be included in his book On Ecumenism (written in haste then, but now significantly supplemented with these Notes. The Notes make evident the full extent of Justin’s profundity as a theologian and ecclesiologist of the authentic Orthodoxy).—The real Justin is present in these Notes: by his original language, style, literature, polemics, philosophy, theology, and above all by his confession of the God-man Christ and His Church. He confesses his faith, tradition, experience and his perspective on man, on the world and on Europe—invariably in the Church and from the Church, in the God-man Christ and from Him, just as he did in all of his writings and in his entire life and theologizing.