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ru | en | it | gr About the Author Books POETRY PROSE ESSAYS    INTERVIEW On the Nature of Tradition The complete article is published in: Olga Sedakova. Freedom to believe: philosophical and cultural essays. Bucknell University Press, 2010. We are grateful to the Publishing house Bucknell University Press for the permission to use the fragment of the book on this site. My theme is tradition in general, tradition in the general cultural meaning. Naturally, in the church, this theme acquires a special intensity — and, I would say, a special fullness. But generally speaking, tradition is a thing that pertains to a human being as such, to the pre-New Testament and even pre-Old Testament human being. Where there is a person, there is tradition. No matter what tradition we speak of — mythological, folkloristic, cultural — it possesses certain common qualities. For example, the almost essential vagueness of its source or the explication of its precepts. The more

On the Nature of Tradition | Olga Sedakova's Official Web Site ru | en | it | gr About the Author Books POETRY PROSE ESSAYS INTERVIEW On the Nature of Tradition The complete article is published in: Olga Sedakova. Freedom to believe: philosophical and cultural essays. Bucknell University Press, 2010. We are grateful to the Publishing house Bucknell University Press for the permission to use the fragment of the book on this site. My theme is tradition in general, tradition in the general cultural meaning. Naturally, in the church, this theme acquires a special intensity — and, I would say, a sp

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