Bumi Dipijak has a wonderful snippet from Schmemann. It is both enlightening and a little castigating to me at least. I'm reading so much Schmemann right now in my liturgics course that they should just rename it Schmemannology.
I also endorse reading Bumi Dipijak Wei xian sheng's in general.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann on monasticism
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We did, in my brief stint in seminary (not Saint Vlads) refer to Saint Vlad's as the "Scheminary"
ReplyDeleteYou could be reading something else. Most Roman Catholic seminarians I talk with have never hear of Schmemann nor have they heard of Adain Kavanaugh.
ReplyDeleteIn fact that reminds me I have to read some Schmemann for my graduate comps in June.
I'm taking courses from an Orthodox seminary. I may end up doing some other coursework from a Ukrainian Catholic college for a catechist diploma. In truth, I suspect I shall always be taking some course or other.
ReplyDeleteReally you can never stop learning!
ReplyDeleteI have been turned on to Oliver Clement - an Orthodox author from France. His book "On Human Being" is rather remarkable. I find myself re-reading paragraphs and sentences several times over to really absorb it.
I also appreciate that much of what he writes is not written with contradistinctive reference to the West. Authors who begin every other paragraph with "Unlike in the West..." really turn me off.
Amen. I agree, explaining what your are not instead of what you are is a time tested apophatic/via negativa technique, but sometimes a cataphatic answer is called for. I just read 30 pages of Schmemann discussing what the "Church" isn't with no addressing of what the "Church" is. It drove me to call my priest and get some affirmative information.
ReplyDeleteI see Olivier Clement's works on Amazon. I'll pick one up next week. Thanks for the recommendation.