05 — The Writings
The Zadonsk corpus: On True Christianity (1770–72), the first large-scale work of Russian-language devotional theology; A Spiritual Treasure Gathered from the World (1777–79), the emblematic meditations that read the everyday world as a book of theology; the Cell Letters; and the English editions — including what the Jordanville Journey to Heaven actually translates.
This section treats the writings themselves; the debate over their Western sources is deliberately separated into Section 06. The first file gives the major work; the second the Spiritual Treasure, the letters, and the translations.
Files
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| on-true-christianity.md | The masterwork of 1770–72: origins, argument, Florovsky’s “mystical ethics,” the corrected composition dates, the English-edition caution |
| a-spiritual-treasure-and-the-letters.md | The emblematic method of 1777–79, the Sluchai treatise, the Cell Letters, and what Journey to Heaven translates |
See Also
- 06 — The Western Question — Arndt, Hall, and the historiographical debate
- 04 — The Zadonsk Years — the cell the corpus came from
- 07 — Tikhon and Dostoevsky — the corpus’s greatest reader
- Collection README — the master guide