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Interview with Olivier Clément: Orthodoxy and the Mystery of the Person

by Olivier Clément

There is only one life. But since we are not separated from anyone, we can have a privileged connection with one or another deceased human person with whom we are “one.” We can “remember” what happened to that person.

Olivier Clément

Olivier Clément (1921–2009) was a French lay Orthodox theologian who devoted his life to the study of Christian spirituality and ecumenical rapprochement. Raised in an agnostic household, he was baptized into the Orthodox Church in 1951. For many years, he was a professor of moral theology at Saint Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. He wrote more than thirty books.

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