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==Life==
Born a [[Judaism|JewJewish]], Alexander Men was [[baptism|baptized]] as an infant by along with his mother, who had become a member of the underground church in Russia under Soviet suppression.
Father Alexander Men was a voice "crying in the wilderness" during the time of the Soviet atheistic domination of Russian culture and also during the critical transition of Russia into freedom in the late 1980s, when Mikhail Gorbachev declared the policies of ''perestroika'' and ''glasnost''.
Father Alexander Men was murdered with an ax on [[September 9]] 1990 in a forest as he made his way to church. His funeral was held on the day commemorating the Beheading of St. [[John the Baptist]], who was "the voice crying in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord."
== Works ==
Recent works by Alexander Men in English translation include:
*"An Inner Step Toward God: Writings and teachings on Prayer", (2014)ISBN 978-1612612386;
*"Russian Religious Philosophy: 1989-1990 Lectures" ([http://www.berdyaev.com/bookfind.html frsj Publications], 2015). ISBN 978-0996399227 (in 25th Year Memory Commemoration)
== Criticism ==
# Encouragement of magic and extrasensoric (in a lecture to students of extrasensory school) entails 25 years of excommunication from the Communion. And it is almost only guilt which dump on the priest at once two penalties - [[defrocking]] and [[excommunication]]. (Rules of [[6 Ecumenical Council]], Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, etc.)
'''Note:''' The Moscow Patriarchate has not censured either Fr. Men or his writings. And the criticisms listed here are not convincing without citations from Fr. Men's works.Indeed, the Moscow Patriarchate Izdatel'stvo publishing house has begun a project to publish Fr. Men's "Collected Works" in a series of 15 volumes.[http://www.rop.ru/?q=node/349]
== Quotes by Father Alexander Men ==
* http://alexandermen.livejournal.com/ large collection of translations,articles,live links etc
[[Category:Modern Writers|Men]][[Category:Priests|Men]]