Between the Icon and the Idol

About the Contributor(s): Artur Mrówczy?ski-Van Allen is director of the Slavic Department at the International Center for the Study of the Christian Orient in Granada, Spain. He is Currently Professor at the Instituto de Filosofía ""Edith Stein"" and the Instituto de Teología ""Lumen Gentium"" (Granada), where he teaches Philosophy of History and Political Philosophy. He is also member of the Scientific Council of the Centro Studi ""Vita e Destino, Vasily Grossman"" (Turin), and Consultant of Episcopal Commission for Interconfessional Relations of the Episcopal Conference of Spain (Madrid). . He is coeditor of La Idea Rusa: Entre el anticristo y la Iglesia: Una antología introductoria (2008).