Nikolay Fyodorov on Participatory Atonement

Nikolay Fyodorov

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God does everything not merely for humanity, but also through humanity. The Creator through us recreates the world; He resurrects all that are perished.

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The Philosophy of the Common Task, page 43, London: Honeyglen Publishing, 1990

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There is only one doctrine which demands not separation but reunification, which sets no artificial aims but one common task for all—the doctrine of kinship… Only this doctrine can provide a solution to the problem of the individual and the masses. Union does not absorb but exalts each individual, while the differences between individuals strengthen unity, which consists in (1) the realization by every person that he is a son, grandson, great-grandson or descendant, that is, a son of all the deceased fathers and not a vagrant in the crowd, devoid of kith and kin ; and (2) the recognition by each and everyone, together and not in disunity as in a mob, of one’s duty to the deceased fathers . . .