Böcker av Michel Evdokimov

"In contrasting and exploring the lives and theology of two martyrs to the totalitarian violence of the twentieth century, Michel Evdokimov challenges us to meet the world we live in on its own terms, and to meet God in the form of our neighbor, believer or unbeliever, rich or poor, citizen or undocumented. His introductory essay explores the new secular world and proclaims that we should not fear secularization: it is with us for the duration. He then introduces Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Father Alexander Men as exemplars (particularly as men who became martyrs, or witnesses) of how to speak about Christ in a world that has rejected God"--

Father Alexander Men (1935-1990), a priest assassinated after the fall of communism, is a highly regarded figure in Russian Orthodoxy. He was brought up during the War and marked by the Stalinist era. Following the completion of his theological studies in Moscow, he was appointed to various parishes around the capital, in particular Alabino and Novaïa Dérévnia. But his personality and influence soon brought him into conflict with the authorities and he was persistently hounded by the police and subjected to interrogations and searches of his home. Father Men was not an agitator but the embodiment of an ideal of spiritual resistance to communism effected through prayer, the liturgical and sacramental life, and the valuing of the human person