Tradition Alive: On the Church and the Christian Life in Our Time : Readings from the Eastern Church

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Summary: Classic Russian Text
Review: I have not yet seen the book; I will post a proper review when I do. But I only just discovered that this is a translation of essays from the famous volume "Zhivoe Predanie," published by Russian emigre theologians in Paris in 1936 (37?). It is therefore an immensely important work for the renewal of the Orthodox Church in our time. These were true prophetic voices, and if they can be heard now with fresh appreciation, it will bode well for the Orthodox Church, especially in America. At the moment we know these theologians only through their ideological descendents (such as Fr Alexander Schmemann of blessed memory). Now perhaps we can drink from the same well that Fr Alexander did!