Call for Papers

2021

3 / 2021

Religious Identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages:

Strategies for the Construction and Representation of the Religious Self

With the fall of the Roman Empire and the advent of Christianity, new political and religious realities gave an impulse for an interplay of identity constructions. “Christian,” “pagan”, “barbarian” or “Jew” became categories ideologically charged, and the borders between them became rather fluid…
 

2 / 2021

Sacred Spaces in Motion

Our contemporary world witnesses contrasting approaches to sacred spaces: while in some parts of the world (especially in the West) there is a decrease in the interest for religious buildings as places for worship, due to the decline of the number of practicing believers…

Read More

1 / 2021

The Contemporary World and Post-Conciliar Orthodoxy

In January 2020, the Ecumenical Patriarchate recently published a document entitled “For the Life of the World: Towards a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”. The “Social Ethos” document can be described as an omnibus of positions on the Church’s stance with regard to today’s socially significant questions …

Read More

2020

3 / 2020

An Intellectual of the Church: Remembering Father André Scrima (1925-2000)

The 19th of August 2020 is the date that marks twenty years since the passing away of André Scrima, an Orthodox monk known for his unusual presence. From the very position of an Orthodox monk, André Scrima pleaded for the actualization of the unity of the Church…

Read More

2 / 2020

The Ecumenism of the Mystics

Mystics are a special part of the Christian experience. Due to their spiritual journey, they have become a model and a reference on many themes, including ecumenism. At times a stark contrast …

Read More

1 / 2020

Ecumenism at the Turn of the Decade

Ten years ago, in the promising aftermath of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly, in Sibiu, 2007 the first issue of the Review of Ecumenical Research (RES) was coming out of print, with an …

Read More

2019

3 / 2019

Lost for Words:
Theological and Philosophical Vocabulary in the Aftermath of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon (451) has been responsible for one of the most remarkable and long-standing splits within Christianity. Conceptual differences between Chalcedonian and …

Read More

2 / 2019

Jewish Christian Dialogue and the Orthodox Churches

When talking about Orthodox Christianity in the context of the Jewish-Christian dialogue, a stark disproportion between East and West becomes visible. More precisely, there is a sharp contrast between …

Read More

1 / 2019

Patristics and Ecumenism

While the Church Fathers enjoy a special authority in the Orthodox Church, which is also acknowledged in the Roman Catholic Church, in the Protestant tradition their authority bears a slightly …

Read More

2018

3 / 2018

Interconfessional Marriages

Migration is not a mark of our time – it has existed in all times. But today it is at the top of the political agenda – and it shapes the ecumenical coexistence of denominations.

Read More

2 / 2018

Church and Politics

Churches are part of society and, as such, come always in touch with existing political issues. This applies even more so if and insofar as they are active in the social field.

Read More

1 / 2018

Translating Confession

Language is the depository for the identity of a community: from the simplest oral, daily formulas, to the scriptural spiritual legacy preserved in literary and cultic texts, language encompasses …

Read More