Acknowledgements
The research for this book was made possible through the generous support of the “Philosophy in Neopatristics: New Figures and New Interpretations” grant from the Polish National Science Center (UMO–2018/31/B/HS1/01861).
I would like to express my gratitude to all those who supported me in my work on this monograph. My sincere thanks to Prof. Andrew Louth (Durham University), Prof. Paul Gavrilyuk (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota), Dr. Brandon Gallaher (The University of Exeter), Dr. Paul Ladouceur (University of Toronto), Dr. Nikolaos Asproulis (Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Greece), Dr. Dmitry Biryukov (The University of Fribourg), Nadezhda Spivak (Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst College, Massachusetts). I am deeply grateful to Prof. Alyssa DeBlasio (Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania), the brilliant editor of Brill’s Contemporary Russian Philosophy book series, for her encouragement and professional advice. Special thanks to my translator, Łukasz Malczak, as well as Dr. Aeddan Shaw and Dr. Anna Razumnaya for editing and proofreading the manuscript.