Author Biography
Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky (1888–1988) was an eminent theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Among his many written works, he is best known for his book Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, which has been praised for its straightforward presentation of Eastern Orthodox teaching and its firm basis in the writings of the Church Fathers. Fr. Michael was a living link with pre-Revolutionary Russia. He was born into a priestly family in 1888 and graduated in 1912 from the Kiev Theological Academy. Afterwards he served as a teacher and then a missionary priest. The vicissitudes caused by revolution and war took Fr. Michael from his native land to Poland, Germany, and finally America, where he settled at Holy Trinity Monastery near Jordanville, New York. He taught at the affiliated Holy Trinity Seminary for many years, and became known as a quiet but stalwart defender of traditional Orthodoxy. He died in 1988, just a few days before his hundredth birthday.
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”