Living Icons presents an intimate portrait of holiness as exemplified in the lives and thoughts of ten people of faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In this inspiring volume, Michael Plekon introduces readers to a diverse and unusual group of men and women who strove to put the Gospel of Christ into action in their lives. The "living icons" Plekon describes were, among other things, priests, theologians, writers, and caregivers to the homeless and poor. One was an artist who became the greatest icon painter in this ...
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Living Icons presents an intimate portrait of holiness as exemplified in the lives and thoughts of ten people of faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In this inspiring volume, Michael Plekon introduces readers to a diverse and unusual group of men and women who strove to put the Gospel of Christ into action in their lives. The "living icons" Plekon describes were, among other things, priests, theologians, writers, and caregivers to the homeless and poor. One was an artist who became the greatest icon painter in this century; another was assassinated for his teachings in post-Soviet Russia. These remarkable people of faith lived through times of great suffering: forced emigration, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Many of them were criticized, if not condemned, by ecclesiastical opponents and authorities. Yet each demonstrate a unique pattern for holiness, illustrating that the path to sainthood is open to all. With the fall of state socialism, Eastern Orthodox churches and monasteries are being reopened and receiving renewed interest from believers and nonbelievers alike. Plekon calls to our attention people like Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1832), a monk, mystic, counselor, healer, and visionary; Father Alexander Men (1935-1990), a Russian whose writings after Glasnost ultimately led to his tragic assassination; Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), a painter, poet, and political activist who was killed in a concentration camp for hiding her Jewish neighbors; and Father Lev Gillet (1893-1980), one of the twentieth century's greatest spiritual teachers. Living Icons , which includes a foreword by Lawrence S. Cunningham, brings to life the beautiful, and often unfamiliar, spirituality of the Eastern Orthodox Church through some of its most remarkable members. It shows with simplicity and clarity that Christ and the Gospel are often manifested in extraordinary ways in the lives of ordinary people.
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New. Solus christianus, nullus christianus, claimed Tertullian--''a solitary Christian is not a Christian''(that's a staff translation)--to which our author adds, ''the one who thinks he or she can alone be saved is deluded. '' It is the belief of the Church that we are saved together with our brothers and sisters, our fellow saints. The Eastern Orthodox Church is known for her icons, with which we are invited to participate in the continuing reality of the person represented. As Michael Plekon puts it, ''Behind them one catches just a glimpse of the nameless, faceless saints. '' He chooses just ten of these saints, all with connections to the Russian Orthodox Church, all relative contemporaries of our time (who understood themselves as part of it and strove to live the gospel creatively in it), to allow us an encounter with their life in Christ. We meet St. Seraphim of Sarov, Sergius Bulgakov, Maria Skobtsova, Lev Gillet, Paul Evdokimov, Gregory Krug, Nicolas Afanasiev, Alexander Schmemann, John Meyendorff and Alexander Men. These are part of a distinctly ecumenical strain of Orthodoxy, concerned with the spirit of the law and how it should manifest itself in our world. The author, an Orthodox priest, is deeply sympathetic to this ecumenical strain, and any discussion of this book could get caught up in the validity of the inclusion of these living icons or the exclusion of others. That would be very sad. We would rather turn to Fr. Schmemann's words, to the ''paradise of the moment, '' that piece of the Kingdom given us now, through which our own lives must be transformed.
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