For For pastors, students and anyone thinking about Christian funerals and the modern denial of death; short lectures, not a pastoral manual.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Four talks on how modern culture hides death and how the Church's funeral rites answer it.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Four talks by Schmemann, unpublished in his lifetime, edited with an introduction by Alexis Vinogradov. He first criticises contemporary culture's distorted understanding of death, then examines the Church's rites of burial and her prayers for the dead. A Russian translation by E. Iu. Dorman appeared in Moscow (Granat) in 2013 as Liturgiia smerti i sovremennaia kul'tura; the English edition followed in 2016.
