Selected Essays of Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky

— About the Book —

This collection of essays by one of the giants of the twentieth century Russian emigration is newly available in digital form. Fr. Michael Pomazansky was one of the Russian Church Abroad's last living links to the streams of pre-revolutionary Russian theology. He graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy in 1912, where he studied under the wings of Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky). In 1949 Fr. Michael and his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Jordanville, where he taught the Greek and Church Slavonic languages and Dogmatic Theology until his retirement. His most famous work is Orthodox Dogmatic Theology. Fr. Michael reposed in peace in 1988, only a few days shy his one-hundredth birthday.

His characteristic spirit of deep humility infuses these writings. Subjects addressed in this collection include biblical criticism, Catholicity and Cooperation in the Church, Liturgical Books, serving in the Church, the liturgical theology of Fr. Alexander Schmemann, the Glorification of Saints, Children in the Church and much more.

— Contents —

In Memory of Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky

Is This Orthodoxy?

Children in Church

On the Rite of Churching an Infant and the Prayer for a Woman Who has Given Birth

The Glorification of Saints

Catholicity and Cooperation in the Church

Everything Has Its Time, Its Place

How Each of Us Can and Ought to Serve the Church

An Outline of the Orthodox World-View of Father John of Kronstadt, Based on His Own Words

The Liturgical Theology of Father A. Schmemann

Liturgical Books: From Manuscript to Print

A Luminary of the Russian Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Anthony

The Old Testament and Rationalistic Biblical Criticism

Sophianism and Trends in Russian Intellectual Theology

The Old Testament in the New Testament Church

The Church of Christ and the Contemporary Movement for Unification in Christianity

Our War is not Against Flesh and Blood , On the Question of the “Toll-Houses”