
For the Life of the World
A Study of the Sacraments and Orthodoxy
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“Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him. To be sure, man is not the only hungry being. All that exists lives by 'eating.' The whole creation depends on food. But the unique position of man in the universe is that he alone is to bless God for the food and the life he receives from him.”
Very Rev. Alexander Schmemann
Instructor

Rev. David Anderson
Rev. David E. Anderson is a priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago. Educated at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, where he was a student of Rev. Alexander Schmemann, he was ordained in 1983. From before his ordination until now, he has been both a teacher and a translator of patristic and Byzantine liturgical texts. Especially known for his lectures on the early Church Fathers and the early liturgy he also currently serves as the full-time Byzantine chaplain at Wyoming Catholic College.
Resources
- For the Life of the World by Very Rev. Alexander Schmemann
- The Sabbath by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
- The Lord by Romano Guardini
- Liturgy Outside Liturgy: The The Liturgical Theology of Fr. Alexander Schmemann by David Fagerberg
- A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World by Marva J. Dawn
- The Life of St. Anthony by St. Athanasius
- The Letter to Diognetus
- The Epistle of Barnabas
- The Didache
- Great Lent: A Journey to Pascha by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
- The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann
- Of Water and the Spirit by Fr. Alexander Schmemann