Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson talks about the moral philosophy of Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky (1863-1936) for this week’s podcast. He was the most significant theologian of the 20th century and the first leader of the post-revolution Russian church in exile. His mission was to rebuild the truth of Orthodoxy without the monarchy and even without an independent nation to support it. Russians and Orthodox were now forced to rely on themselves and on God's grace. The perversions of the Petrine system forced the cleansing of the church and Antony was the leader, like Ezra or the Maccabees, of the reformation under the worst of circumstances. His purpose was to explain the moral nature of Christian dogma. These are moral conceptions that are to be lived, not merely words on a page to be memorized and adhered to. These aren't random inventions of ancient ascetics, but the very reformation of human nature after the Fall of Adam almost destroyed it. Presented by Matt Johnson The Orthodox Nationalist: The Moral Philosophy of Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky – TON 070418