What is anathema

The book was published with the blessing of the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ Alexy II.
Often we hear this terrible word – anathema – without thinking about its meaning. Some consider the anathema excommunication from the church, others – a curse like spiritual death. Why does the preaching of love and mercy Church pronounce this tough word? In this book, historical and theological works about the essence of the anathema and about the ripe of anathematization, which is now being revived in the liturgical life, committed on the first Sunday of the Great Lent – in the week of Orthodoxy. It provides an opinion on the anathematum of the saints of the Orthodox Church (St. John Chrysostom, St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), St. John of Kronstadsky), modern theologians (Deacon Andrei Kuraev), as well as the definitions of the St. Synod and acts of the bishop’s cathedrals on the deployment of well -known historical persons from ancient times to the present.
The authors hope that the book will help you understand this healing action of the Holy Church, designed to protect the church …

Editor
Fomina E. O.
Publisher
Dar, 2006
Series
The basics of Orthodoxy