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It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

Alexander Schmemann

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Alexander Schmemann
Age: 62 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 13
Died: 1983
Died: December 13
Philosopher
Priest
Theologian
University Teacher
Reval
Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Shmeman
Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann
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Transcendent
Inevitably
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