Lukasz (Luke) Liniewicz

English translation of the complete Freireligiöse Quellensammlung (1844–1928), edited by Lothar Geis. The historical texts present differing approaches to religious freedom, conscience, morality, science and community.

Available as EPUB and PDF, with source references and restrained translator’s notes. The PDF is a newly typeset reading edition; its pagination differs from the German original.

First published in Russian in 1931, Nikolai Berdyaev’s The Destiny of Man explores the freedom, dignity, and creative vocation of the human person. Distinguishing the ethics of law, redemption, and creativity, Berdyaev asks how moral life can move beyond conformity to external rules toward a free and responsible response to other people and to God.

Combining philosophical anthropology with Christian religious thought, the book examines conscience, love, suffering, sexuality, marriage, work, technology, the state, revolution, and war. Its final part considers death, immortality, hell, and paradise, challenging an understanding of goodness that accepts the eternal exclusion of others. Throughout, Berdyaev treats ethical life as personal, tragic, and creative rather than reducible to a universal code.

This English translation by Lukasz Liniewicz (2026) is based on the Russian text of the 2006 Moscow edition published by АСТ, АСТ Москва, and Хранитель. The EPUB includes linked contents, the author’s notes, and translator’s notes.

Newly translated from Russian (2026). Nikolai Berdyaev examines the freedom and dignity of the human person and the spiritual, social, and political forms of enslavement that constrain it.

From America: Parts I and II is Lukasz Liniewicz’s English translation of Gustav Adolf Wislicenus’s Aus Amerika (Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1854).

The preface and nineteen letters follow Wislicenus’s departure from Germany, his travels through England and across the Atlantic, and his experiences in Boston. They examine religious freedom, free congregations, slavery and abolitionism, Theodore Parker and the Nebraska Bill, spiritualism, everyday American life, and prospects for German settlement in southern Brazil.

This English reading edition contains both parts, all nineteen letters, nine original notes and eleven clearly distinguished translator’s notes. Advertisements, duplicate wrappers and repeated printer’s notices are omitted. The cover reproduces the actual German wrapper of the first booklet; its historical German lettering is retained.