Alaskan Orthodox Texts in the Indigenous Languages of Alaska

This project, digitizing original Alaskan Orthodox materials, has been blessed by His Eminence SERAPHIM, Archbishop of Ottawa and all Canada, and by His Grace Right-Reverend NIKOLAI, Bishop of Sitka, Anchorage & Alaska.

This site is an electronic library of historic Orthodox Christian resources in the indigenous languages of Alaska. Included in this site are:

• printed texts in the Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, and Yup'ik languages,

• audio libraries of liturgical hymns in mp3 format,

• links to published materials for further research,

• links to other web-sites dedicated to Alaskan Orthodoxy.

For more information see: http://www.asna.ca/alaska/

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The Church of the Holy Spirit by Nicholas Afanasiev

The Church of the Holy Spirit by Nicholas Afanasiev, translated by Vitaly Permiakov and edited with an introduction by Michael Plekon, and a foreword by Rowan Williams, has just been published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

The Church of the Holy Spirit, 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. The Church of the Holy Spirit, 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.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.MICHAEL PLEKON is professor of sociology at Baruch College. He is the author of Living Icons: People of Faith in the Eastern Church (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002).VITALY PERMIAKOV received his M.Div. from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and is a Ph.D. student in theology at the University of Notre Dame."Nicholas Afanasiev is perhaps the most important ecclesiologist of modern times in the Orthodox world. The Church of the Holy Spirit is a very important book, a magnum opus, demonstrating that Afanasiev himself is undoubtedly a major twentieth-century theologian.” —John McGuckin, Nielsen Professor of Early Ecclesiastical History, Union Theological Seminary. For more information see: http://www3.undpress.nd.edu/exec/dispatch.php?s=title,P01182

Holy Trinity Seminary Archives to be Microfilmed

Hoover Institution and Holy Trinity Seminary have been awarded an NEH grant to process and microfilm collections of Holy Trinity Seminary Archive Hoover Tower, The Stanford University Signature Building The Hoover Institution and Holy Trinity Seminary have received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a 1.5-year joint project to process and microfilm the most significant archival holdings of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, NY. The primary goal of the project is to make these collections available to scholars in the reading rooms of the Hoover Institution Archives and Holy Trinity Seminary by the end of 2008. The Holy Trinity Seminary will retain the original materials. The archive of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary was founded in 1982 in Jordanville, NY, as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Russian history and culture. Over the past 25 years it has acquired significant and unique materials relating primarily to the history of the Russian post-1917 emigration, pre-revolutionary Russia and the Civil War period. Among the Materials included for microfilming are the papers of General Petr Krasnov, a noted Civil War Cossack leader and writer, the records of the Russian all-Military Union (Rossiiskii Obshche-Voinskii Soiuz), the records of veterans' associations of several Imperial Russian Army and anti-Bolshevik regiments. The collections contain the papers and correspondence of prominent Russian political and cultural figures: Ivan M. Andreevskii (historian and writer), Vladislav Maevskii (historian and theologian), Ivan Shmelev (writer), Nikolai Talberg (historian) and others. See: http://www.hts.edu/