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The Creative Power of Anthroposophical Christology
An Outline of Occult Science – The First Goetheanum – The Fifth Gospel – The Christmas Conference
Paperback
October 2011
9780880107334
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- Publisher
SteinerBooks - Published
20th October 2011 - ISBN 9780880107334
- Language English
- Pages 336 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.5"
$25.00
Sergei O. Prokofieff and Peter Selg, two leading authorities and spiritual researchers into the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, gave a series of conferences from 2009 to 2010 on the Christological foundations of Anthroposophy. Their aim was to show the power of anthroposophic Christology. Thus, they focused on key turning points in Steiner’s exposition—his major work, An Outline of Esoteric Science; the first Goetheanum; the reappearance of Christ in the etheric realm and its relationship to Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the Fifth Gospel; and the Christmas Conference of 1923/1924 and the founding of the New Mysteries.
The lectures from these conferences, published as four booklets in German, are collected here in a single volume. The Creative Power of Anthroposophical Christology will prove to be an important work for anyone interested in the true meaning and depth of Rudolf Steiner’s experience and understanding of Christ’s act on Golgotha and his continuing presence among us and within Anthroposophy.
C O N T E N T S:
Preface to the American Edition
1.The Christology of the Book An Outline of Occult Science
Preface by Sergei O. Prokofieff
Peter Selg: The Earth as Centerpoint of the Cosmos: The Developmental History of Christological Context of the book An Outline of Occult Science
Sergei O. Prokofieff: An Outline of Occult Science and the Mystery of Golgotha
2. The First Goetheanum and Its Christological Foundations
Preface by Sergei O. Prokofieff
Peter Selg: Rudolf Steiner and the Building of the First Goethanum
Sergei O. Prokofieff: The Nature of the First Goetheanum and the Mystery of Golgotha
3. Christ’s Reappearance in the Etheric in Relation to the Fifth Gospel
Preface by Peter Selg
Peter Selg: Rudolf Steiner, the Fifth Gospel, and Christ’s Reappearance in the Etheric
Sergei O. Prokofieff: The Mystery of Resurrection in the Light of the Fifth Gospel
4. The Christmas Conference and the Founding of the New Mysteries
Preface by Sergei O. Prokofieff
Peter Selg: The Year of Destiny 1923—Rudolf Steiner’s Path to the Christmas Conference
Sergei O. Prokofieff: The Nature of the Christmas Conference and Its Sources of Inspiration
Appendix: First Class Admissions by Rudolf Steiner (with facsimiles)
Sergei O. Prokofieff
Sergei O. Prokofieff (1954-2014) was born in Moscow, where he studied fine arts and painting at the Moscow School of Art. At an early age he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and quickly realized that his life would be dedicated to the Christian path of esoteric knowledge. He wrote his first book, Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries, while living in Soviet Russia, and it was published in English in 1994. After the fall of Communism, he helped establish the Anthroposophical Society in Russia. In 2001, he became a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. More than 30 of his books have been translated into English. Sergei Prokofieff passed away in Dornach, Switzerland.
Peter Selg
Peter Selg studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin and, until 2000, worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke Hospital in Germany. Dr. Selg is director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland), professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany), and co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum. He is the author of numerous books on Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophy, medical ethics, and the development of culture and consciousness.
