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Nicholas Afanasiev - The Church of the Holy Spirit - 9780268020422 - V9780268020422
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The Church of the Holy Spirit

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Description for The Church of the Holy Spirit Paperback. Editor(s): Plekon, Michael. Translator(s): Permiak, Vitaly. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 Illustration (black and white). BIC Classification: HRCC8; HRCM; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.

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. Afanasiev was a member of the “Paris School” of émigré intellectuals who gathered in Paris after the Russian revolution, where he became a member of the faculty of St. Sergius Orthodox Seminary. 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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268020422
SKU
V9780268020422
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Nicholas Afanasiev
Michael Plekon is professor of sociology at Baruch College. He is the author of Living Icons: People of Faith in the Eastern Church (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002).

Reviews for The Church of the Holy Spirit
"Nicholas Afanasiev is perhaps the most important ecclesiologist of modern times in the Orthodox world. The Church of the Holy Spirit is a very important book, a magnum opus, demonstrating that Afanasiev himself is undoubtedly a major twentieth-century theologian.” —John McGuckin, Nielsen Professor of Early Ecclesiastical History, Union Theological Seminary “In a work that is scholarly yet accessible to the ... Read more

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