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	Alexander Schmemann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Schmemann (13 May 1921 - 13 December 1983) was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian priest, theologian, and writer.
		Schmemann was born in Tallinn (Reval) Estonia to Russian émigrés.
		Fr Schmemann was accorded the title of protopresbyter, the highest honor that can be bestowed on a married Orthodox priest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Schmemann (477 words)

	Alexander Schmemann - OrthodoxWiki
		Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann (May 13, 1921 - December 13, 1983) was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian priest, theologian, and writer.
		Alexander Schmemann was born in Estonia to Russian émigrés.
		Alexander came, the two are distinct honorary titles), the highest honor that can be bestowed on a married Orthodox priest.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Alexander_Schmemann (467 words)

	Review - Lucid Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Central to Schmemann’s life and journals is the joy he took from his relationships with his wife and family, his friends and colleagues, and the people he met on his trips throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
		Schmemann, Eucharist was not a ritual to be performed or a subject to be studied; it was a defining characteristic of the life of a Christian.
		Schmemann would state that the worst criticism of Christianity was Nietzsche’s accusation that Christians "have no joy." "The source of all false religion is the inability to rejoice, or, rather, the refusal of joy; whereas, joy is absolutely essential because it is without any doubt the fruit of God’s presence.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/14.10docs/14-10pg42.html (1442 words)

	Schmemann, Matushka Juliana :: Orthodox Christian Cassettes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Schmemann is the wife of the late Fr.
		Alexander Schmemann, priest, author and theologian of the Orthodox Church in America and Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary from 1958 to 1983.
		Alexander influenced many people and wrote numerous books, but his greatest legacy was his joy for life and fellowship with the Lord.
	www.orthodoxtapes.org /speakers/schmemann_juliana.htm (122 words)

	The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983 - Alexander Schmemann, Juliana Schmemann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Schmemann's journals show no patience for the petty intrigues of church politics, nor for the "maximalist" abberations of those around him -- For him the Church was the quiet harbor and home for the paradoxes of Christian teaching, not the arena in which extremists of any ilk should parade, whether ultra-traditionalist or modern-reductionalists (i.e.
		Schmemann's roots were Russian (or more specifically, in the Russian emigree world of Paris in the 30s and 40s), he saw himself as beyond any suffocating association with nationalism, when his own mission was about the Church in the West.
		Schmemann remarkable: He traveled the world, lectured all over Western Christendom to many Western Christian denominations, and kept his focus on the "big picture" of the world, salvation, life and death -- ever insisting that the Church be concerned with the fundamental Christian message regarding these big questions, and not fall into petty ghettoization.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-0881412007.html (664 words)

	Mission Monthly Newsletter 05/2001
		Alexander was moved by the ONLY true power which can lift a man above the anchors of his flesh and place him where the Creator of all imbues into a man the true meaning of life, in stark contrast to the tragic and petty realities of the fallen nature.
		Alexander could have meant by “forced labor.” Whether it be the routine demands of our life in the Church, our families, our jobs, our homes, our prayers, etc., the sometimes arduous vigilance of our Christianity which covers all, for whatever reason, can be hard to sustain.
		Alexander’s “breakthrough” and to recognize its sameness to that of the Apostles and saints throughout the centuries.
	www.saintignatiuschurch.org /mm0501.html (623 words)

	Serge Schmemann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Serge Schmemann (born April 12, 1945) is a writer and Editorial Page Editor of the International Herald Tribune.
		Earlier in his career, he worked for the Associated Press and was a bureau chief and editor for the New York Times.
		Born in France the son of Alexander Schmemann, he grew up speaking Russian at home.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serge_Schmemann (204 words)

	Amazon.ca: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Schmemann presents the meaning and connection of world and sacramental mystery in this beautifully articulated book that serves as one of the foundational texts for the English-speaking student of theology who has a concern for the relevance of the Church's rule of prayer as expressed in Her sacramental rythems.
		Schmemann writes that the purpose of the book "is to remind its readers that in Christ, life--life in all its totality--was returned to man, given again as sacrament and communion, made Eucharist." He goes on to discuss the importance of this understanding for our mission in the world.
		Schmemann believes that secularism is at the heart of those differences, and that secularism was born when scholars in the West sought to analyze, define and explain the sacraments, most significantly the Eucharist (or Communion).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0913836087 (1661 words)

	Catholic AnalysisCatholic Analysis: 01/23/2005 - 01/29/2005
		Alexander Schmemann, an Orthodox Christian Protopresbyter, was very passionate in his belief in the Orthodox Church as the “one,” “true” Church founded by Christ centuries ago.
		Alexander Schmemann was born in 1921 in Estonia.
		In his writings, Alexander Schmemann clearly explains and elaborates the theology of the liturgy, the sacrament of the Eucharist, the mission of the Orthodox Church, and the interrelation of all three.
	catholicanalysis.blogspot.com /2005_01_23_catholicanalysis_archive.html (5406 words)

	FT January 2001: The Public Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alexander wrote, “Since the Orthodox world was and is inevitably and even radically changing, we have to recognize, as the first symptom of the crisis, a deep schizophrenia which has slowly penetrated the Orthodox mentality: life in an unreal, nonexisting world, firmly affirmed as real and existing.
		Alexander’s life and thought was against the closures of totalism—whether political and ideological totalism, as in totalitarianism, or the total explanations proposed by theology or philosophy.
		Alexander’s theology as is to be found: “I realized that ‘theologically’ I have one idea—the eschatological content of Christianity, and of the Church as the presence in this world of the Kingdom, of the age to come—this presence as the salvation of the world and not escape from it.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0101/public.html (13239 words)

	Free in the Faith, Open to the World: the Work of Alexander Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Father Alexander Men, it is claimed, succumbed to ecclesiological relativism, this last deficiency evidenced by his favorable mentioning of Savonarola, Hus, and Eckhardt among those "renewing the Church," his criticism of ascetical exaggerations and Orthodox hostility toward those of other religious traditions, including other Christians.
		(11) Father Alexander Men is revealed to be guilty of being an "ecumenist" for his appreciation of certain constructive aspects of the papal office and also is castigated for alleged, though unprovable dismissal of monasticism as "out-moded," "rooted in pagan cults" and as non-evangelical in its renunciation of the world.
		Fr Alexander Men's widow, Natalya, has credited these broadcasts by Fr Schmemann and by Archbishop John (Shahavskoy) with giving her husband the courage to write and teach about the faith, despite the strictures and dangers in the USSR of the 1960s and 70s.
	home.earthlink.net /~amenpage/plekon2.htm (7744 words)

	A Letter Concerning the Views of Frs. Alexander Schmemann and Alexander Men
		Father Schmemann, however, reveals the full extent of his dependence on heterodox scholarly prejudices when he writes that after the fourth century there was an excessive emphasis on the veneration of Saints as intercessors before the Throne of God, indicating the "eclipse of catholic ecclesiological consciousness" (Introduction, p.
		Needless to say, Father Alexander's understanding of the veneration of Saints and Holy Relics, at least from a traditional Orthodox way of thinking, is innovative, impious, and wholly at odds with the dogmatic traditions of the Church.
		However, this sympathy is constantly at odds with Father Schmemann's disrespect for the spiritual content of the Church's Mystery and his rejection of the constant guidance of the Holy Spirit in her liturgical development.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /phronema/schmem_men.aspx (2318 words)

	Blogoslovi
		Father Alexander Schmemann celebrated the divine liturgy for the last time on Thanksgiving Day [in 1983].
		This was particularly appropriate since Father Alexander had devoted his whole life to teaching, writing and preaching about the Eucharist; for the word eucharist in Greek means thanksgiving.
		Alexander, taken just a few days before this sermon was delivered, on the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple in 1983.
	blogs.sun.com /roller/page/jsolof?entry=the_final_words_of_fr (452 words)

	Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Alexander Schmemann 0913836044 - Direct Textbook Details and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That said, Schmemann wrote in a far more engaging style and tone in his extremely popular "For the Life of the World." "Great Lent", in contrast, is drier (for Schmemann) and seems to drag a bit at times.
		Alexander's exposition of the mindset of Lent is indispensable.
		Alexander as a passionate liturgical theologist takes us by the hand and helps us exploring the beauty and richness of this most wonderful of all liturgical books of the eastern church.
	www.directtextbook.com /reviews/0913836044 (769 words)

	Jacob's Well :: Articles 1996-Fall :: Fr. Alexis Vinogradov :: Father Alexander Schmemann: Singing in the Right Key
		Curiously, while Fr Alexander claimed to be tone-deaf musically, he often invoked musical terminology in his theological work, and had the gift of "hearing" and beautifully composing the "music" of theology.
		Father Schmemann's language and effort is artistic in that sense that it doesn't hit us with irrefutable axioms, but like the parables of Christ, it is an invitation to share in what he sees with his inner eye.
		And when finally we are drawn to the power of his words and witness their endurance, we realize that Fr Alexander has chosen them with great care, just as a true poet's words do not simply leap from the wings of "inspiration", but are the fruit of God's grace and the poet's labor.
	www.jacwell.org /articles/1996-FALL-Vinogradov.html (1199 words)

	Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann: SVTQ - Fr Schmemann's Funeral Celebrated in Chapel
		Following Fr Alexander Schmemann’s death on December 13, his body was brought to the Chapel of the Three Hierarchs at St Vladimir’s Seminary the same evening.
		Mrs Schmemann then addressed the congregation, thanking the members of the Seminary Family in very personal terms for the love and support which was extended to Fr Alexander and to the members of his family throughout his illness and following his death.
		A lovely photo of Fr Alexander and his wife on the Seminary grounds was then presented to Mrs Schmemann as a token of thanks for enabling her husband to give so much of his time and effort to the Church, to the Seminary, and to so many individuals during his lifetime.
	www.schmemann.org /memoriam/1984.svtq9.funeral.html (761 words)

	The "Sorrowful Epistle" of Metropolitan Philaret: A Rejoinder to Fr. Alexander Schmemann
		Under these circumstances, then, Father Schmemann is wrong and it is the Synod alone which may judge "the Russian ecclesiastical problem," for she is the only free part of the Mother Church, while the other "jurisdictions" are dissidents.
		Father Alexander is surely aware of the innumerable conciliar decisions and patriarchal epistles (e.g., the Three Answers of Jeremiah II, Confessio Dosithei, the Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs (1848), the Council of Constantinople (1872), etc.) which have encouraged the heterodox to enter the Orthodox Church, ‘the Ark of Salvation’ (Holy Russian Synod, 1904).
		Thus, Father Alexander’s article tends to oscillate between whether the Synod is ab initio uncanonical or uncanonical by virtue of her ostensible withdrawal from communion with the universal Orthodox episcopate.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /ecumenism/schmem_azkoul2.aspx (5464 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - The Eucharist Sacrament of the Kingdom: Sacrament of the Kingdom (Alexander Schmemann , Paul ...
		Schmemann writes with clarity and insight about the Eucharist, not as an abstract phenomenon but from a first concern with liturgy as a whole, as the lived experience of the Church.
		Schmemann demonstrates that the real dynamism of the Eucharist and the Liturgy is the connecting of the sacrament with the Church, the world and the Kingdom.
		Schmemann's book is its clarity- clarity of style and more importantly his clarity of expression of his experience of God and God's Kingdom that is offered to us in the Eucharist.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0881410187.htm (461 words)

	Books : The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fr Schmemann was known for his many-faceted and eloquent gifts as preacher, professor and priest.
		Schmemann was a noted theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church, whose journal, spanning the last 10 years of his life, very personally, lay out his reflections on his life, his work, and the meaning of Christianity in the world today.
		Father Alexander Schmemann is one of the greatest theologians and teachers America has ever known, and he was very open in these journals.
	vnet.org /ItemId/0881412007 (474 words)

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		Among the "heretical" books were the works of respected 20th-century Orthodox theologians, Alexander Schmemann, who died in 1983, John Meyendorff, who died in 1992, and Alexander Men, who was murdered in 1990.
		Alexander Schmemann's widow, Juliana Schmemann, now living in New York, has written a letter to Patriarch Alexei asking him to clarify the situation.
		She told journalists: "I am sure that most of the faithful in the Russian Orthodox Church, those who read [Alexander Schmemann's] books and know his teachings, will be deeply troubled and shocked by the brutal burning of his books.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/zolotov0806.html (780 words)

	Revisiting Father Alexander Schmemann
		Father Alexander continued, and almost single-handedly articulated in America, the legacy of a small number of theologians who understood that the whole liturgy (meaning the entire worship of the church) is not the focus of speculation or experimentation, but is itself the very source of theological knowledge and spiritual experience and revelation.
		For Father Alexander the most pernicious secularists were those who professed membership in a church, but whose lives bore no evidence of a deep transformation of life and witness to the kingdom of God.
		In his assessment of the problems Father Alexander does not excuse his brother clergy, bishops and priests, whose task is to rediscover and lead a renewal in a liturgical way of thinking and life.
	www.jacwell.org /Fall_Winter99/Vino_Liturgical.htm (1458 words)

	Recommended Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As Fr Schmemann writes, "Tell me what you celebrate, and I will tell you who you are." This book, Volume II in the Celebration of Faith series, explores the Feasts and Celebrations of the Church Year.
		This volume, the third in a collection of sermons by Fr Alexander Schmemann, is on a topic that was particularly close to his heart: the Virgin Mary.
		The Eucharist is the crowning achievement of the well-known liturgical scholar, Alexander Schmemann.
	www.antiochian.org /1107911758 (1183 words)

	OCA - Orthodox Church in America News
		Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture at St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, NY.
		On the other hand, Father Kishkovsky continued, traditionalist's concerns are prompted by problems that genuinely trouble today's Church, such as secularism and the compartmentalization of faith as only one component a secular lifestyle.
		He used as a reference point Father Alexander Schmemann's essays on Orthodoxy in America (the canonical problem, the liturgical problem, and the spiritual problem), written 40 years ago, which addressed many of the same problems and conflicts between "traditionalists" and "reformers" within Orthodoxy.
	www.oca.org /news.asp?ID=733&SID=19 (372 words)

	FT January 2001: The Public Square
		Schmemann through his books, especially For the Life of the World, Of Water and the Spirit, and The Historical Road of Eastern Orthodoxy (all published by St. Vladimir’s Press).
		Alexander no divide between the sacred and secular, between the subjects of, for instance, unisex fashions and baptismal grace.
		Alexander was not nearly so confident of the effectiveness of his witness, and certainly had no illusions about his vision flourishing in Orthodoxy.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft0101/public.html (13239 words)

	Amazon.ca: Eucharist Sacrament Of the Ki: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I am sure that when Schmemann wrote this book he could not have anticipated how utterly beautiful it would be.
		What makes this work different from all of Schmemann's other works on the Eucharist is that it breathes love for God and for the summit of Christian worship, the Eucharist.
		Schmemann cuts a whole through "Western" preoccupation with the moment of consecration, and restores a united vision of this central act which takes us to heaven to eat and drink with Christ in his Kingdom.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0881410187 (261 words)

	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New York, NY — His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, received an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and delivered the 19th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture on Thursday, January 31st on the campus of St. Vladimir’s, Crestwood, NY.
		The Schmemann Lecture is held in honor of Father Alexander Schmemann who served as dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary from 1962 to his death in 1983.
		Alexander Schmemann, faculty and students of the Seminary.
	www.goarch.org /en/news/NewsDetail.asp?printit=yes&id=85 (208 words)

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