O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

  • Year 2003
  • Type Sermon
  • Genre eschatology
  • Tradition Eastern Orthodox
  • Original language Russian

For For readers facing death or grief, and anyone asking what Christians believe about death; short talks, not a theological treatise.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

Radio talks on death as the last enemy and on Christ's resurrection, translated from the Russian.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 0 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Talks on death and resurrection drawn from Schmemann's Russian broadcasts on Radio Liberty, translated by Alexis Vinogradov and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press in 2003. The chapters take up why the apostle Paul calls death the last enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26), how death came to seem stronger than life, Christ's answer to it, the resurrection and Pascha.

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