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Title: The Eucharist Sacrament of the Kingdom: Sacrament of the Kingdom by Alexander Schmemann, Paul Kachur ISBN: 0-88141-018-7 Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and full of love
Comment: I am sure that when Schmemann wrote this book he could not have anticipated how utterly beautiful it would be. Superlatives should always be used sparingly, but when it comes to this masterpiece, no superlatives are sufficient. 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. Every line is filled with breathtaking insights and love for God. 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. This is probably the finest book I have ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book on the Eucharist I have ever read
Comment: Fr. Schmemann has written what is simply the best book on the Eucharist I have ever read. Fr. 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. Fr. Schmemann explicates how the Eucharist symbolizes, i.e. reveals, manifests, and communicates Christ and His Kingdom. Fr. 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. The Church, through the activity of the Holy Spirit in its Liturgy and life, brings the world into the Kingdom of God. In the Eucharist, all that is human can be transfigured by grace so that all of creation may be consummated in God. The strength of Fr. 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. This book is alive.
As a side note, Fr. Schmemann's recently published Journals are written while he was writing this book. It is interesting to read of his struggles and insights as a companion to The Eucharist.
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Title: Of Water and the Spirit: A Liturgical Study of Baptism by Alexander Schmemann ISBN: 0913836109 Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy by Alexander Schmemann ISBN: 0913836087 Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Alexander Schmemann, Alexander Schememann ISBN: 0913836044 Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 1969 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Eucharist in the New Testament (Zacchaeus Studies) by Jerome Kodell ISBN: 0814656633 Publisher: Michael Glazier Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Our Father by Alexander Schmemann, Alexis Vinogradov ISBN: 0881412341 Publisher: Melissa Media Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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