What is anathema

The book was published on the blessing of the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II.
Often we hear this terrible word - Anathema, - without thinking over his meaning. Some are considered anaphore from the church, others - a curse, like spiritual death. Why does the church pronounce this tough word for what preaching love and charity? In this book, the historical and theological works on the essence of the Anaphhem and the reborn in the liturgical life of the Ninea of ​​Anathematics, which is performed on the first Sunday of the Great Post - a week of Orthodoxy. It provides an opinion on the Anathema of the Saints Orthodox Church (SVT. John Zlatoust, Svt. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), St. John Kronstadsky), modern theologians (Diacon Andrey Kuraev), as well as the definitions of St. Synod and the acts of the bishop famous historical persons from ancient times to the present day.
The authors hope that the book will help you understand this Corresponding to the Holy Church, designed to protect the church people from spiritual illness - heresies and splits