The Parish and the Church

by Alexander Schmemann

  • Year 1959
  • Type Essay
  • Genre ecclesiology
  • Tradition Eastern Orthodox
  • Original language English

For For clergy and parish leaders thinking about what a parish is; a short occasional booklet, not a theology of the Church.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

A short booklet for an American church council on what the parish is within the Church.

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

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

A booklet published in New York in 1959 by the Committee on Convocation of the 10th All-American Church Sobor of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America (the Metropolia, later the Orthodox Church in America). Written for that council of the American church, it addresses the place of the parish within the Church. It is an early instance of Schmemann's engagement with the life and structure of Orthodoxy in America, the concern later gathered in Church, World, Mission.

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