For For Russian readers and students of his sacramental theology; a short early booklet, not his later book on baptism.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
A short early booklet on baptism, written in Russian, long before his full study of the rite.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A Russian booklet of 31 pages on baptism, published in Paris in 1951 by Tserkovnyi vestnik, the year Schmemann left the St Sergius Institute for St Vladimir's Seminary in New York. It was reprinted in Russia in 1992 and by the Krutitsy Patriarchal Metochion in Moscow in 1996. It is an early, separate treatment of the subject he developed at length in Of Water and the Spirit (1974).
