Alexander Schmemman (1921-1983), ordained to the priesthood in 1946, gradually becoming one of most influential Orthodox theologians of the 20th century. He served as a teacher and dean at St. Vladimir’s Seminary until his death, was an official Orthodox observer of the Second Vatican Council, and helped to establish the Orthodox Church in America in […]
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“Robert Nisbet was never a friend of centralization, militarism, and absolutism, whether royalist or democratic.” Joseph R. Stromberg In The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet (1913-1996) pursued the idea of decentralized, natural social orders as an antidote to the isolation and despair engendered by the modern (and often abstract) nation-state. Only within the context of
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While church father Athanasius of Alexandria is probably best known for his “contra mundum” stance against Arianism, for his defense of the doctrine of the Trinity (“whole and undefiled”), and for the “Athanasian Creed” (which he didn’t actually write), he was also an eloquent writer of great clarity and precision. CS Lewis called him a
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) remains a timeless voice of wisdom in the midst of the self-destruction of post-Great War modernity. Fusing the disciplined anti-romanticism of his teacher Irving Babbitt with the provocative Imagist power of his mentor and friend Ezra Pound, Eliot forged a poetic oeuvre that reflected the complexities of the modern age with
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C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was arguably the most influential Christian thinker of his time, and his thought has long outlasted him. It would be difficult indeed to find someone who has had more influence than Lewis on the modern classical education renewal. From his great works of fiction (The Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent
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