Jesus the Unknown

37 hrs. 41 min.

Language Russian

Author Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Narrator Evgeny Ternovsky

Description

Dmitry Merezhkovsky entered literature as a poet and translator; he also tried his hand as a critic and playwright. His huge popularity was earned by his trilogy “Christ and Antichrist,” his studies “Leo Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” and “Gogol and the Devil” (1906). But all his life he was searching for that final form in which he could present his own philosophical ideas.

Merezhkovsky believed that the Gospel was not read correctly and that Jesus was not understood—that humanity is waiting for a Third Testament after the Old and the New, the Kingdom of the Spirit. In world and Russian history, in the work of Russian writers, he sought confirmation that this new Kingdom is coming—that the future is sending signs of the end and the transformation of the present. And if you look at the writer’s creative path, it becomes clear that he was entirely driven toward the book “Jesus the Unknown”—and it was destined to be its culmination, the summit toward which he had moved for a long time and persistently.