Why Berdyaev is not taught in theology

AI-assisted translation from the Greek. Greek original

Nikolai Berdyaev was among the few thinkers who dared to say that creation was not finished.
God, he said, continues to create, and the human being is called to participate in His creative act.
That is why his thought became intolerable to systems:
it abolished the hierarchy between God and humanity and brought a new model of relationship —
co-creation.

Union without hierarchy frightened theologians,
because it broke the security of submission.
God no longer appears as a king,
but as a breath seeking an echo within the human person.
The freedom of which Berdyaev speaks
is not a right, but divine energy —
God’s power to exist freely within the human being.

That is also why his theology looks like anarchy:
because it says that God needs the human being.
Not out of lack, but because the word of God is not a command;
it is the breath of relationship.
The word wants to be heard; it wants a response.
Without hearing, it remains unspoken; without freedom, meaningless.
That is why God willingly makes His manifestation depend on the human yes;
creation was not fulfilled in Genesis —
it continues whenever a person responds and becomes an echo of the word within the world.

This thought is as scandalous as it is liberating:
because it replaces the idea of divine sovereignty with the truth of divine love.
God’s power is not to dominate,
but to allow the other to exist.
And the truth of the human being is not to submit,
but to breathe together with the Divine,
so that the word may be born into the world.

That is why Berdyaev is silent in the universities,
but breathes in every human awakening.
His teaching does not fit into theology curricula,
because it asks not for explanation but for encounter —
the unending creation in which God, humanity and the world
simply go on saying yes to one another.