The Church of the Holy Spirit, written by Russian priest and scholar Nicholas Afanasiev (1893-1966), is one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology. student in theology at the University of Notre Dame..
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Vladimir\'s Orthodox Theological Seminary and is a Ph. from St.
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He is the author of Living Icons: People of Faith in the Eastern Church (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002).
Vitaly Permiakov received his M.
About the Author: Michael Plekon is professor of sociology at Baruch College.
Vitaly Permiakov\'s lucid translation and Michael Plekon\'s careful editing and substantive introduction make this important work available for the first time to an English-speaking audience.
The Church of the Holy Spirit, which offers a rediscovery of the eucharistic and communal nature of the Church in the first several centuries, was written over a number of years beginning in the 1940s and continuously revised until its posthumous publication in French in 1971.
Sergius Orthodox Seminary.
Afanasiev was a member of the "Paris School" of migr intellectuals who gathered in Paris after the Russian revolution, where he became a member of the faculty of St.
The Church of the Holy Spirit, written by Russian priest and scholar Nicholas Afanasiev (1893-1966), is one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology
