The Justification of the Good

Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Jakim has here revised and annotated the nearly century-old translation, which was, stylistically, already lucid and uncompromised. Hart's brief foreword is perhaps the best theological introduction to Solovyov in English. Their efforts are the perfect complement to a work that is all at once strange, prophetic, and filled with so many brilliant analyses that it is impossible to skim. . . This is one of those rare books that, if taken seriously, would shake up our disciplinary structures as well as our lives." Reviews in Religion and Theology "Solovyov seems to anticipate and bypass the dead ends of twentieth century ethical theory, striding confidently ahead into futures thinking before it became a genre. . . Duddington's translation flows elegantly and without distraction; Boris Jakim supplies the explanatory footnotes you need; and the foreword by David Bentley Hart has the first-time reader prepared for the surprising experience to follow." Cistercian Studies Quarterly "The sheer breadth of issues Solyvov examines -- from the family to the state, from nationalism to crime and punishment, from war to the economy -- makes this book an amazing effort to consider morality in all of its social locations."