Homiakov

Role: theologian · First appears: PART EIGHT · Chapter 9

Life events

Levin was initially impressed by Homiakov’s doctrine that divine truth belonged to the church.(PART EIGHT · Chapter 9)
- With: Levin
- “Levin read the second volume of Homiakov’s works, and in spite of the elegant, epigrammatic, argumentative style which at first repelled him, he was impressed by the doctrine of the church he found in them.”
Levin abandoned Homiakov’s doctrine after discovering that Catholic and Orthodox churches denied each other’s authority.(PART EIGHT · Chapter 9)
- With: Levin
- “But afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two churches, in their very conception infallible, each deny the authority of the other, Homiakov’s doctrine of the church lost all its charm for him”

with Levin (Levin read Homiakov's theological works.) “His brother Sergey Ivanovitch advised him to read the theological works of Homiakov. Levin read the second volume of Homiakov’s works, and in spite of the elegant, epigrammatic, argumentative style which at first repelled him, he was impressed by the doctrine of the church he found in them.”

Extracted from the original text of Anna Karenina. Made with Rho MD.