Vladimir Lossky

Vladimir Nikolayevich Lossky (/ˈlɒski/; Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Ло́сский; June 8 [O.S. May 26] 1903 – February 7, 1958) was an influential Orthodox Christian theologian in exile from Russia. He emphasized theosis as the main principle of Orthodox Christianity.

Vladimir Nicolaevich Lossky was born on 8 June 1903 in Göttingen, Germany. His father, Nikolai Lossky, was professor of philosophy in Saint Petersburg. Lossky was profoundly changed when he witnessed the trial which led to the execution of Metropolitan Benjamin of St Petersburg by the Soviets. (Metropolitan Benjamin was later canonized by the Orthodox Church.) [2] In 1920 he enrolled as a student in the faculty of Arts at Petrograd University; but in 1922 he and his father were exiled from Soviet Russia. From 1922 to 1926 he continued his studies at Prague, and in 1927 graduated at the Sorbonne in Paris in medieval philosophy.

Lossky settled in Paris. From 1942 until 1958 he was a member of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. He served as the first dean of the St. Dionysus Institute in Paris. He taught dogmatic theology and Church history in this institute until 1953, and from 1953 to 1958 in the diocese of the patriarchate of Moscow, "rue Pétel" in Paris. He was a member of the and the ecumenical Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius. He is best remembered for his book, Essai sur la theologie mystique de l'Eglise d'orient (1944) (English translation, The Mystical Theology of the eastern Church (1957)).

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