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AUTHORS/ Afanasiev, Nicholas
Afanasiev was born in Odessa on September 4, 1893, the son of Nikolai Grigorevich Afanasiev, a lawyer, and Proskovya Yakovlevna. After studying mathematics at university, he served in the White Army artillery during the civil war following the Russian Revolution. He married his wife, Marianne, in Prague in 1925.
Afanasiev pursued graduate studies at the University of Belgrade, studying under A. P. Dobroklonsky, the noted historian of the Russian Church. He received his doctorate in 1927 after defending his dissertation, Authority of the State and Oecumenical Cathedrals. He taught at the Orthodox seminary in Skopije from 1925-1930, and then began teaching church history and canon law at the St Sergius Institute in 1930. Afanasiev was ordained a priest on January 6, 1940 by Metropolitan Evlogy; he was accompanied around the altar by Sergius Bulgakov and Cyprian Kern. He took up pastoral work in Tunisia from 1941-1947, then returning to St Sergius in 1947. He died December 4, 1966.Afanasiev is best remembered for his recovery of eucharistic theology, which influenced has influenced Orthodox and non-Orthodox theologians alike ever since.
Active in ecumenical discussions, Afanasiev was an official ecumenical observer at Vatican II. His best-known work is his essay on the primacy of Rome in the ancient Church, entitled "The Church Which Presides in Love."
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Church of the Holy Spirit (The), by Nicholas Afanasiev; Translated by Vitaly Permiakov; Edited with an Introduction by Michael Plekon; Foreword by Rowan Williams
“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. 327pp Cloth
Price: $50.00
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Church of the Holy Spirit (The), by Nicholas Afanasiev; Translated by Vitaly Permiakov; Edited with an Introduction by Michael Plekon; Foreword by Rowan Williams
“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. 327pp Paper
Price: $25.00
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