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Iulia De Beausobre
Julia, Lady Namier (also known as Iulia de Beausobre; Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina) (1893-1977) was a Russian writer. She wrote several works on Christian spirituality, and a biography of her husband, British historian Lewis Bernstein Namier. Biography Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina was born in 1893 and brought up in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her first husband, Nicolai de Beausobre, a Russian diplomat reportedly persecuted by the Communist authorities, died in the 1930s. Iulia herself was exiled to a concentration camp. She was ransomed by her former governess, a British woman, and migrated to Britain. She left Russia in 1934. In Britain, she published an autobiography, ''The Woman Who Could Not Die'' (1938) and reflections on ''Creative Suffering'' (1940). She went on to publish a translation of ''Russian Letters of Direction by Macarius the Elder of Optino'' (1944), and a life of St Seraphim of Sarov Seraphim of Sarov (russian: Серафим Саровский; – ), bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Spirituality
Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation f the personfor, the consciousness of, and the effect of ..a direct and transformative presence of God" or Divine ''love''. Until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was referred to by the term ''contemplatio'', c.q. ''theoria'', from '' contemplatio'' ( Latin; Greek θεωρία, ''theoria''), "looking at", "gazing at", "being aware of" God or the Divine.William Johnson, ''The Inner Eye of Love: Mysticism and Religion'' (HarperCollins 1997 ), p. 24 Christianity took up the use of both the Greek (''theoria'') a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
