In April 1968 I attended a seminar on Orthodox theology for non-Orthodox theological students in Bossey, Swittzerland and at the St Sergius Institute in Paris. It got me interested inm Orthodox theology, and soon afterwards I read The world as sacrament, a shorter version of For the life of the world. It expressed all the things I wanted to say about Western theology, which wass divided between spiritualists and materialists.

I’ve reread the book many times, and it became the foundation of my theological outlook.