A powerful essay by Justin Popovich (1894-1979): https://orthodoxmonarchy.net/files/THE_GOD-MAN_by_saint_Justin_Popovic.pdf. I must see about reading more of him, and I see he wrote on Dostoevsky which I’d like to see, Anyway, he could certainly write. For example:
. . . man learns the complete truth about man, about the purpose and meaning of his existence only through the God-man. Outside of Him a man turns into an apparition, into a scarecrow, into nonsense. Instead of a man you find the dregs of a man, the fragments of a man, the scraps of a man. Therefore, true manhood lies only in God-manhood; and no other manhood exists under heaven.
. . . While the God-man is the fundamental truth of Orthodoxy, the fundamental truth of every heterodoxy is man, or fragments of his being--reason, the will, the senses, the soul, the body, expertise. Integral man does not exist in heterodoxy; the whole man is divided into atoms, into particles. And it is all for the glory of man's greatness. But just as "art for the sake of art" is nonsense, so also is it nonsense to say "man for the sake of man." That path leads to a most pitiful pandemonium, where man is the supreme idol--and nowhere is there a more pitiful idol than he.
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