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Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983
Published by St Vladimirs Seminary Press March 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0881412007ISBN 13: 9780881412000
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Paper Back. Condition: New. For most great men, there is always a public and a private aspect to their character. Not so, I think, with Fr. Alexander. It is possible to say, after reading his journals, that reading any of his books, or hearing him speak in person, -- that the man that we meet in the Journals is the same man we meet in the books and in public. The recurrent insistence on the centrality of the Eucharist to all of life, to all of Christian proclamation and theology; the impatience -- even anger -- with making idols out of a certain religious culture or spiritual ''style,'' the profound love of literature and nature, the ability to weave those loves into what technicians call ''liturgical theology'' -- all of this emerges from his life's work with great clarity. The Journals simply express it all directly, bluntly. There are passages of impatience with non-essentials, of almost ecstatic experiences of sudden glimpses of grace in a moment of solitude, or of encounter with honest, authentic Christians, or with a flash of transcendent beauty in an otherwise mundane natural context, or with the childlike joy drawn from simply being with family or friends. These experiences were the raw material that informed Fr. Schmemann's writing and teaching. This book makes it available for all to see, and give thanks. Yes. Eucharist.
