Conversations on Holy Scripture Archbishop Nathanael [IN RUSSIAN]

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Archbishop Nathanael (Архиепископ Нафанаил). Conversations on Holy Scripture and on Faith and the Church (Беседы о Священном Писании и о вере и Церкви).  IN RUSSIAN. "Conversations" are compiled primarily from numerous works, articles and speeches of Archbishop Nathanael, published in various foreign Russian Orthodox publications, and also include his previously unpublished works from the archives of the Synod. Like other church figures from the first émigré generation, Archbishop Nathanael lacked formal theological education. In the 1990s, the Russian Orthodox Youth Committee in New York published five volumes of his articles collected by Bishop Hilarion of Manhattan. His discussion with Fr. Alexander Schmemann of the canonical organization of church life in the diaspora turned into an unexpectedly productive conversation.

Published by Committee of Russian Orthodox Youth Abroad, 1991-1995. Set of 5 volumes. Softcovers, 1-283, 2-301, 3-351, 4-318, 5-309pp. Overall very good to about fine condition. Some edge wear on a couple of the books. No ownership marks. 

Archbishop Nathanael, was in the world named Vasily Vladimirovich Lvov (1906-1986), and was a ROCOR bishop. He wrote many theological, polemical and historical works and sermons, which purpose was to defend Orthodoxy and the position of ROCOR. He was born into nobility, studied in St. Petersburg, Buguruslan and Tomsk, where he stayed due to the retreat of the White Army to the East. He later fled, together with his mother and younger brothers, to Manchuria before the advancing Red Army, 

Fr. Nathanael spent the war years in St. Job of Pochaev Monastery in Ladomirová in Slovakia editing monastery publication and writing for the Russian people on the territories of the USSR occupied by Axis powers. After the end of World War II, Fr. Nathanael, together with another member of the Ladomirová Brotherhood, Fr. Vitaly (Ustinov), prevented the forced repatriation of the displaced persons to the USSR from Northern Germany.