Church of the Holy Spirit

<p><i>The Church of the Holy Spirit</i> written by Russian priest and scholar Nicholas Afanasiev (1893-1966) is one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology. Afanasiev was a member of the Paris School of émigré intellectuals who gathered in Paris after the Russian revolution where he became a member of the faculty of St. Sergius Orthodox Seminary. <i>The Church of the Holy Spirit</i> which offers a rediscovery of the eucharistic and communal nature of the church in the first several centuries was written over a number of years beginning in the 1940s and continuously revised until its posthumous publication in French in 1971. </p><p>Vitaly Permiakov's lucid translation and Michael Plekon's careful editing and substantive introduction make this important work available for the first time to an English-speaking audience.</p>