by Teresa Obolevitch

This book presents an intellectual biography of one of the most prominent Orthodox women theologians, Myrrha Lot-Borodine (1882–1957). It discusses her creative path, her ecumenical and charitable activities, and the major topics of her research in medieval literature and patristics. It also considers Lot-Borodine’s relations with the prominent Russian émigré thinkers of the 20th century, such as Nicolas Berdyaev, Fr. Georges Florovsky, and Vladimir Lossky.

“Sister Teresa Obolevitch’s account of Myrrha Lot-Borodine—detailed and based on archival studies, with a command of the rapidly growing secondary literature on the Russian emigration—brings her to life as never before. This work will prove to be a watershed, not only for our knowledge of Lot-Borodine, but also for our understanding of the exchange of ideas both within the exiled intelligentsia and between the Western scholars and thinkers who welcomed them to Paris, leading to an engagement between the Orthodox East and the Catholic West, the further results of which we are only now beginning to apprehend.”
ANDREW LOUTH, author of Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present

TERESA OBOLEVITCH is Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. She is the author of Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought and The Eastern Christian Tradition in Modern Russian Thought and Beyond, and the editor of several books about Russian religious philosophy, including Evgenii Trubetskoi: Icon and Philosophy (with Randall A. Poole).