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[[Image:FrAlexanderMen.jpg|thumb|Father Alexander Men (1935-1990)|238px]] [[Image:FrAlexanderMen2.jpg|thumb|Father Alexander Men]]Father '''Alexander Vladimirovich Men''' (1935-1990) was a [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox]] [[priest]] who is considered by some to be a [[martyrarchpriest]], theologian, preacher and prolific author of books on theology, the history of Christianity and other religions.

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 times of Russia into freedom in the late 1980s, when Mikhail Gorbachev declared the policies of ''perestroika'' and ''glasnost''.

Fr. Men's ministry, which lasted for more than thirty years, covered coincided with the worst possible very difficult times for the Russian believerbelievers, including himself becoming and he personally became a target for the KGB. His influence on contemporary Russia is unmistakableunquestionable, and his life remains to this day a powerful example of witness for our Lord and Savior [[Jesus Christ]].

Father Alexander Men was murdered with an ax on [[September 9]], 1990 with an ax in a forest on 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."

== Criticism ==Priest [[Image:FrAlexanderMen2.jpg|thumb|Father Daniil Sysoev]] considered Alexander Menas a [[heretic]], listing 9 major beliefs, which are incompatible with Orthodoxy:==Quotes by Father Alexander Men=="I find more meaning # [[Manichaeism]]. - The doctrine of Satan's complicity in the wing creation of a bird the world, the result of which was allegedly an evolution.# The doctrine of man as transformed ape. Contradicts the definition of five Ecumenical Council against [[Origen]] (there proclaimed that the soul and the body appeared at the same time. Regarding Men's teaching, his opinion was condemned by the Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate of 7.12.1935 in the branch case of Fr. [[Sergius Bulgakov]])# The rejection of the divine inspiration of the [[Holy Scripture]] (see anathemas of [[Sunday of Orthodoxy]]).# The rejection of [[original sin]] and postulating independence the death of human sins (see 124 rule of Carthage Counsil)# The rejection of the existence of personal [[Adam]] and the introduction of a tree than in five hundred [[iconkabbalah]]steaching of Adam Kadmon. God has given us two # Rejection of authorship almost all the Old Testament books: (see anathemas against [[Theodore of Mopsuestia]] of [[5 Ecumenical Council]]).# In the teachings of the Church - the adoption of the [[theory of branches]] (condemned at Jubilee Council 2000).# [[Syncretism]] <...> condemned (along with [[theosophy]]) at the Council in 1994# 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 - [[Bibledefrocking]] and Creation[[excommunication]]." ―Fr(Rules of [[6 Ecumenical Council]], Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, etc. Alexander Men)

== Quotes by Father Alexander Men ==* "I find more meaning in the wing of a bird and in the branch of a tree than in five hundred [[icon]]s. God has given us two books: the [[Bible]] and Creation." ― Fr. Alexander Men* "I work now as I have always worked: with my face into the wind... I'm only an instrument that God is using for the moment. Afterwards, things will be as God wants them." ―Fr― Fr. Alexander Men