The Legacy of Father Alexander Schmemann

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• Session 1 : Literature and Christianity
  • Father John Roberti (Rennes) [FR]: The role of literature in a life dedicated to the Church. (14,8 Mo)
  • Father Michel Evdokimov (Paris) [FR]: Fr Alexander and Russian literature according to his Journals (13,1 Mo)
  • Joost Van Rossum (Paris) [FR]: Fr Alexander and Chekhov (17,5 Mo)
  • Nikita Struve (Paris) [FR]: Fr Alexander and Solzhenitsyn (14,2 Mo)
  • Helen Dormann (Moscou) [RU]: The contemporary editions of Fr Alexander in Russia (6,9 Mo)
  
  
• Session 2 : The Church and the World
  • Jean-François Colosimo (Paris) [FR]: Fr Alexander and the rumor of the world (8,2 Mo)
  • Father Alexis Vinogradoff (New York) [EN]: The theme of “ecclesialization of life” in Fr Alexander’s work (11,4 Mo)
  • Father George Kotchetkov (Moscou) [RU]: The mission of the Church in the world (13,3 Mo)
  • Father Michael Plekon (New-York) [EN]: The world as sacrament (13,3 Mo)
  • Alexandre Kirlejev (Moscou) [RU]: The legacy of Fr Alexander in Russia (13 Mo)
  
  
• Session 3 : Liturgical Theology
  • Archimandrit Job (Getcha) (Paris) [FR]: From master to disciple: the notion of “liturgical theology” in Fr Cyprian Kern and Fr Alexander (16,1 Mo)
  • André Lossky (Paris) [FR]: The liturgical ordo and its theology in the thought of Fr Alexander
  • Symeon Froyshov (Norway) [FR]: The notion of the liturgical symbol in Fr Alexander’s work (14 Mo)
  • Paul Meyendorff (New York) [EN]: The liturgical legacy of Fr Alexander in America (11,6 Mo)
  • Father David Bresciani S.J. (Rome) [FR]: The reception of Fr Alexander's liturgical theology in the Roman Catholic Church (10,7 Mo)
  • Father Sava Viorel (Iasi) [EN]: The eucharistic theology of Fr Alexander and Fr Dimitru Staniloae (11,5 Mo)
  
  
• Session 4 : Ecclesiology
  • Father George Basioudis (Allemagne) [EN]: The contribution of Fr Alexander to contemporary ecclesiological studies (9 Mo)
  • Father Jean Gueit (Marseille) [FR]: Sources of the ecclesiology of Fr Alexander (7,3 Mo)
  • Athanase Papathanassiou (Athènes) [EN]: “The Church in mission” or “the Church as mission”? Fr Alexander's contribution to placing missiology at the core of ecclesiology (9,2 Mo)
  • Father Leonid Kishkovsky (New York) [EN] (12,7 Mo) et Father Thomas Fitzgerald (Boston) [EN] (7,7 Mo): Fr Alexander and the ecclesiological status of the OCA
  
  
• Session 5 : Pastoral application
  • Father Nicolas Ozoline (Paris) [FR]: Contemporary penitential discipline and frequent communion of the faithful (9,5 Mo)
  • Father Thomas Hopko (New York) [EN]: Theological education for pastoral ministry (13,2 Mo)
  • Father William Mills (Charlotte NC) [EN]: Cracking the clerical caste: Towards a conciliar Church (12,3 Mo)
  • Father John Tkachuk (Montréal) [EN]: Christ in our world: Waiting for the Good News? (6,4 Mo)
  • Alexander Bourov (Saint-Pétersbourg) [RU]: Pastoral aspects of Baptism in the light of the legacy of Fr Alexander (Baptismal practice during the last two decades in the post-Soviet area. A tentative analysis) (9,3 Mo)
  • Panel: Father Alexander and pastoral practice. Contributions of Fr Boris Bobrinskoy (FR), Fr René Marichal S.J. (FR), Olga Victoroff (FR), Natalia Vasilevich (RU), Oleg Kobtsev (FR)


• Closing session - Diocesan conference:
  • Antoine Nivière (Paris) [FR]: Fr Alexander as editor of the Ecclesiastical Messenger (18 Mo). A (french) text of this conference is here
  • Father Peter Mechtchrinov (Moscou) [FR]: Questions of ecclesiology in the Journals of Fr Alexander (5,9 Mo) (french reading of a part of the conference)
  • Father Leonid Kishkovsky (New York) [EN]: Fr Alexander’s voice today: The Living Legacy (18,3 Mo)


• Juliana Schmemann [FR]: Story by Matoushka Juliana Schmemann, wife of the father Alexander (6 Mo)

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