Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew

Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew ( Russian: Николай Николаевич Афанасьев ; born September 16, 1893 in Odessa , † December 4, 1966 in Paris ) was a Russian Orthodox theologian , protopresbyter and professor of canon law and church history.

Life

Afanassjew began studying at the National I.-I.-Mechnikov University in Odessa in 1912 , but this was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. In the Russian Civil War he was a soldier in the White Army under Wrangel . After the war he received a grant from King Alexander of Yugoslavia . This enabled him to study theology at the University of Belgrade . He did his doctorate on “State power at the ecumenical synods” and was then appointed to the Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge in Paris in 1930. He joined the Jewlogis jurisdiction there . In 1939 he was ordained a priest. He was an observer at the Second Vatican Council .

Teaching

Afanassjew is particularly known for his "Eucharistic ecclesiology ", which he opposed as a genuinely orthodox doctrine of the church to a "universal" ecclesiology, as represented by Cyprian of Carthage and how it was perfected by Roman Catholicism. Christ is undivided present in a local Church in every celebration of the Eucharist, and the local Church is therefore a Church in the full sense of the word. Karl Pinggéra suspects: “The concentration on the local congregation celebrating the Eucharist was Afanas'ev's attempt to think church life in exile in a theologically responsible way. The believers should ... be relieved of the anxious question in which of the rival hierarchies the 'true' church is to be found. "

literature

Nikolai N. Afanas'ev in memory . In: Kirche im Osten 10 (1967), p. 13 f.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Karl Pinggéra : Old and new ways. On the effects of the First World War on Orthodox Christianity and its theology. In: Joachim Negel, Karl Pinggéra (Hrsg.): Urkatastrophe: The experience of the war 1914-1918 in the mirror of contemporary theology . Herder, Freiburg et al. 2016. pp. 417–448, here p. 436.
^ Karl Pinggéra: Old and New Ways. On the effects of the First World War on Orthodox Christianity and its theology. In: Joachim Negel, Karl Pinggéra (ed.): Urkatastrophe: The experience of the war 1914–1918 in the mirror of contemporary theology , Herder, Freiburg et al. 2016. pp. 417–448, here p. 438.

personal data
SURNAME	Afanassjew, Nikolai Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Афанасьев, Николай Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian Orthodox theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Odessa , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	4th December 1966
Place of death	Paris

[:0-1] A ^b Karl Pinggéra : Old and new ways. On the effects of the First World War on Orthodox Christianity and its theology. In: Joachim Negel, Karl Pinggéra (Hrsg.): Urkatastrophe: The experience of the war 1914-1918 in the mirror of contemporary theology . Herder, Freiburg et al. 2016. pp. 417–448, here p. 436.

[2] Karl Pinggéra: Old and New Ways. On the effects of the First World War on Orthodox Christianity and its theology. In: Joachim Negel, Karl Pinggéra (ed.): Urkatastrophe: The experience of the war 1914–1918 in the mirror of contemporary theology , Herder, Freiburg et al. 2016. pp. 417–448, here p. 438.