The Church of the Holy Spirit

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 sev