

L'Orthodoxie (1959), for which Evdokimov received a doctorate from the St.Le Mariage, sacrement de l'amour (1944).Dostoïevski et le problème du mal (1942).It had the following influences: Sergei Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Nicholas Afanasiev, Lev Gillet, Anton Kartashev, Georgy Fedotov, Carl Jung, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Simone Weil, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Simone de Beauvoir and Sigmund Freud. He died in his sleep on September 16, 1970. Evdokimov continued to participate in ecumenical organisations throughout the 1960s, and received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Thessaloniki. From 1958 to 1961, he published several books on Orthodox theology. Paul Evdokimov remarried in 1954, to Tomoko Sakaï, an English-Japanese interpreter. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. This work continued after the end of the war, and in 1953, Paul became a professor in the St. There Evdokimov became involved in the French Resistance via the Cimade refugee aid group. The end of the war coincided with Brunel's death from cancer, and the family relocated to Paris. In 1942, Evdokimov defended his PhD thesis on Dostoyevsky and the problem of evil.


With the advent of World War II and the Italian occupation of Menton, the family moved to Valence, Drôme. They had two children, Nina (1928) and Michel (1930). In 1927, Paul Evdokimov married Natasha Brunel, a French teacher of Russian origin, and moved to Menton, Provence. In this milieu, Evdokimov met and collaborated with leading émigré thinkers such as Sergei Bulgakov and Nikolai Berdyaev. Fleeing first to Constantinople (now Istanbul), the family then moved to Paris, where a large community of Russian émigrés had found refuge. Personal life īorn in Saint Petersburg to a noble family, Evdokimov was forced to leave Russia in the wake of the October Revolution. Paul Evdokimov's theological thought is marked by the attempt to synthesise two important currents in 20th century Orthodox thought, namely the "neo-patristic" renewal and the insights of the Russian religious philosophers. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute, and émigré. Paul Nikolaevich Evdokimov ( Russian: Павел Николаевич Евдокимов) (August 2, 1901 – September 16, 1970) was an Orthodox Christian theologian, professor at the St.
