02 — Student Years and Monastic Formation
The years between the tonsure of 1916 and the professor’s chair: study in revolutionary Petrograd, the Oxford years and the famous unsubmitted Dostoevsky thesis, the doctorate at Athens in 1926, and the making of the young monk into a theologian and seminary teacher.
This section follows Justin abroad. The Serbian Church, scattered by the war, sent its promising young monk to study — first to the Theological Academy of Petrograd on the eve of the Russian Revolution, then to Oxford (where his doctoral work on Dostoevsky was never submitted, for reasons that are themselves disputed), and finally to Athens, where he took his doctorate in 1926 with a dissertation on St. Macarius of Egypt. It then traces his return to Serbia and the years of seminary teaching and editing in which the dogmatician took shape.
Contents
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| petrograd-oxford-and-athens.md | Study in Russia; Oxford and the unsubmitted Dostoevsky thesis; the Athens doctorate of 1926 on St. Macarius |
| teacher-and-monk.md | Ordination; the seminary professorships (Prizren, Bitola, Sremski Karlovci); the editing of Hrišćanski život; the making of a theologian |
See Also
- 01 — Foundations — the war years and the tonsure that preceded the studies
- 03 — The Dogmatician — the systematic theology that the formation produced