St. Tikhon Cemetery, South Canaan, Wayne County (PA), U.S.
Nationality
American
Occupation(s)
Orthodox priest, theologian, and author
Children
Serge Schmemann
Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Шме́ман, romanized: Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Shmeman; 13 September 1921 – 13 December 1983) was an influential Orthodox priest, theologian, and author who spent most of his career in the United States.
Born in Estonia to émigrés from the Russian Revolution, he grew up primarily in France, where there was a large émigré community in Paris. After being educated there in both Russian and French schools and universities, from 1946 to 1951 he taught in Paris. That year he immigrated with his family to New York City to teach at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. In 1962 he was selected as dean of the Seminary, serving in this position until his death. For 30 years, his sermons in Russian were broadcast by Radio Liberty into the Soviet Union, where they were influential as a voice from beyond the Iron Curtain.
Schmemann was among the leaders in forming the Orthodox Church in America as an autocephalous institution, which status it gained from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1970. While identifying strongly as Russian, Schmemann sought to make the OCA independent of any ethnic or national group, and open to all peoples. He believed the Orthodox Church had a mission to the West. In his teachings and writings, he explored the many ways that Christian liturgy was an expression of Christian theology.
and 22 Related for: Alexander Schmemann information
Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Шме́ман, romanized: Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Shmeman; 13 September 1921 – 13 December 1983)...
chief and editor for The New York Times. Born in France, the son of AlexanderSchmemann and Juliana Ossorguine (a descendant of Juliana of Lazarevo, a Russian...
Schmemann can refer to : AlexanderSchmemann (1921–1983), Orthodox Christian priest, teacher, and writer Serge Schmemann (born 1945), French journalist...
Praxis (Orthodox) Theoria Theosis (Eastern Orthodox theology) People AlexanderSchmemann Georges Florovsky John Meyendorff Vladimir Lossky Henry George Liddell...
Com. Retrieved 28 April 2019. "Protopresbyter AlexanderSchmemann: This is the Blessed Sabbath". schmemann.org. Retrieved 28 April 2019. Kallistos (Ware)...
J. Kenneth Grider (1921–2006) George Wesley Buchanan (1921–2019) AlexanderSchmemann (1921–1983) John Stott (1921–2011) Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922–1988)...
(1979-1981), where her professors were the Orthodox theologians AlexanderSchmemann and John Meyendorff. She completed her studies of theology with the...
Western Orthodoxy". www.holy-trinity.org. Retrieved 2020-07-31. Cf. AlexanderSchmemann, "Some Reflection Upon 'A Case Study'" St. Vladimir's Theological...
Liberation Front member Karl "John Bartke", who introduced them to Fr. AlexanderSchmemann, Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary of the Orthodox...
(1903–1958) Georges Florovsky (1893–1979) Michael Pomazansky (1888–1988) AlexanderSchmemann (1921–1983) John Meyendorff (1926–1992) Aleksei Kozlov (1831–1901)...
Queen of Heaven". Lutheran Reformation. Retrieved 20 January 2020. Schmemann, Alexander (1970) "On Mariology in Orthodoxy," Marian Library Studies: Vol....
AlexanderSchmemann. The St. Joseph’s Student Center hosted Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican services throughout the week. Miller, Duane Alexander (March...
London: Faber and Faber, p. 543, ISBN 978-0-8130-0666-6 Archpriest AlexanderSchmemann (1963), Introduction to Liturgical Theology (Lib. of Orthodox Theol...
including Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, Sergius Bulgakov, AlexanderSchmemann, Nicholas Lossky and Nicholas Berdyaev. This label must be nuanced...
Orthodoxy, Hart has praised Orthodox thinkers such as Kallistos Ware, AlexanderSchmemann, John Meyendorff, and Olivier Clément. Hart has also called Ecumenical...
" Modern Eastern Orthodox writers such as Nikolay Afanásiev and AlexanderSchmemann have written that the phrase "presiding in agape", used of the Church...
Monastery (published 2001), pp. 132–136, ISBN 0-88465-067-7 Archpriest AlexanderSchmemann (1963), Introduction to Liturgical Theology (Lib. of Orthodox Theol...
(1943) as Homo loquax i.e. Man as chattering or overly talkative. AlexanderSchmemann in 1973, in his book For the Life of the World. This theme is picked...
history Charles Roper (1858–1940), theologian, metropolitan of Ontario AlexanderSchmemann (1921–1983), adjunct professor of liturgy Samuel Seabury (1801–1872)...
National Council of Churches, USA, is organized. 1951 Arrival of Fr. AlexanderSchmemann in the United States from Paris, taking up teaching duties at St...
Naum Korzhavin, Mihajlo Mihajlov, Ludek Pachman, Andrei Sakharov, AlexanderSchmemann, Ignazio Silone, Joseph Brodsky. This initial issue featured a debate...
influenced Bobrinskoy include Georges Florovsky, Nicholas Afanasiev, AlexanderSchmemann, and Vladimir Lossky. At the start of the 1970s, he chaired the radio...
Global Information