Unknown Publications of S. L. Frank in the Protestant Journal ‘Liebet einander!’ and their Biblical Content

Abstract

The reasons of cooperation between S. L. Frank with the Protestant magazine “Love One Another!” (“Liebet einander!”) during the domination of National Socialism in Germany have been reconstructed in the article. It has been suggested that the possibility of the cooperation between a Russian émigré philosopher of Jewish origin and a protestant journal during the period of the National Socialist dictatorship was influenced both by subjective and objective ones. The subjective factor was the friendship, as well as Pastor Albert Hettling’s anti-National Socialist position, one of the journal’s founders. The objective factor was the common ideological hostility of Bolshevism, which gave grounds for a certain kind of rapprochement between German National Socialism and Protestantism. Based on the little-known and untranslated texts of the Russian philosopher, published in the edition in 1933–1935, the place, that the Holy Scripture occupied in S. Frank’s works of this period has been determined. The Russian translation of the philosopher’s article “Nikolai Gogol: Russian Herald of the Christian Renewal of Life”, published in 1934 in “Love One Another!”, has been published in the appendix