07 — The Writings

Beyond the Dogmatics: Justin’s other great labor, the twelve-volume Lives of the Saints, and the broad body of his New Testament commentaries, ascetical and dogmatic essays, Dostoevsky studies, and correspondence.

This section surveys the rest of a vast corpus. The first file treats the Žitija Svetih — the twelve-volume Lives of the Saints, arranged by the church calendar, which Justin regarded as theology in narrative form and to which he gave years of labor at Ćelije. The second treats the remainder: his verse-by-verse commentaries on the New Testament epistles, his essays (including the Dostoevsky books and Svetosavlje), and his letters — the shorter writings through which his mind is best entered.

Contents

File	Description
the-lives-of-the-saints.md	The twelve-volume Žitija Svetih (1972–1977); hagiography as theology; method and sources
the-commentaries-and-letters.md	The New Testament commentaries; the Dostoevsky books and essays; the correspondence

See Also

• 03 — The Dogmatician — the Dogmatics, the corpus’s other pillar
• The Orthodox Ecclesiology — the saints as the Church achieving its purpose
• A Life of Hidden Prayer — the conditions under which the corpus was produced