Berdyaev

[ ber-dyah-yef, -yev; Russian byir-dyah-yif ]

noun

1. Ni·ko·lai A·le·ksan·dro·vich [nik, -, uh, -lahy al-ig-, zan, -dr, uh, -vich, -, zahn, -, nyi-kuh-, lahy, uh-lyi-, ksahn, -d, r, uh, -vyich], 1874–1948, Russian theologian and philosopher: in France after 1922.

Example Sentences

He has been relatively mum on Berdyaev, who like others has lauded Russia as having a unique role in history.

From Los Angeles Times

They were Nikolai Berdyaev, a well-known Russian religious philosopher; Lev Gumilev, an eccentric Soviet-era ethnologist; and Ivan Ilyin, a 20th-century émigré who was a fan of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps it would be too big an ask to start with Christian existentialist Nikolai Berdyaev’s The Philosophy of Inequality – which Trump’s Kremlin counterpart distributed to regional governors as required reading.

From The Guardian

It was an expression of what Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev described as Russia's split soul: torn between the attraction of anarchy on the one hand and the desire for a firm ruler on the other.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought, but it has also affected scores of Christian thinkers�among them, Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Orthodoxy's Nikolai Berdyaev, Protestants Karl Barth and Paul Tillich.

From Time Magazine Archive