Reminder
Online Round Table
ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITY AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN ORTHODOXY
Wednesday, June 7, 7:00 p.m. (Athens time)
Online, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83448100625
The dialectical relationship between authority and freedom constitutes a persistent theological problem that is now present in the field of academic research as well, and thus, in recent years academic freedom is questioned by Churches in states where Orthodoxy prevails. Prompted by the recent adventures of Prof. Marko Vilotić (the Serbian Church revoked his permission to teach at the University, in 2021), the discussion on the right of the Church hierarchy to intervene in academic work has been intensified, bringing to the surface interesting details about the
Online Round Table
ΕCCLESIATICAL AUTHORITY AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN ORTHODOXY
Wednesday, June 7, 7:00 p.m. (Athens time)
Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis
Dr. Ionut Biliuta
Dr. Milan Vukomanović
Mrs. Inga Leonova MA
Dr. Assaad Elias Kattan (moderator)
The next event of the series of online lectures “Time for Action”, organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, will take place on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. (Athens time). It will be the round table on “Ecclesiastical
Deliverance of Online Lecture
Ashley Purpura:
ORTHODOX POWER:
NEGOTIATING THEOLOGIES OF HIERARCHY AND DEMOCRACY
The online lecture on the topic “Orthodox Power: Negotiating Theologies of Hierarchy and Democracy” was successfully delivered by Dr. Ashley Purpura, Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University (Indiana, USA), on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. The discussion was moderated by Rev. Dr. Cyril Hovorun, Professor in the Stockholm
A meeting of the Volos Academy of Theological Studies with a delegation from the Theological Academy of Kyiv of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which has been visiting Greece, took place on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Volos Academy was represented by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, H.E. Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias, its director, Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, and many of its Research Associates and Staff members. The nine-member Ukrainian delegation was headed by the H.E
The Conference
INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY
IN THE WAKE OF THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE
OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
concluded on Sunday, May 14, with the morning Divine Service in the church of Sts. Constantine and Helena in Volos, Greece.
The Conference was organized by the Protestant Faculty of Theology, Münster University, in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence “Politics and Religion” of the same University and Volos Academy for Theological Studies.
The opening of the Conference took place on
Online Lecture
Ashley Purpura:
ORTHODOX POWER:
NEGOTIATING THEOLOGIES OF HIERARCHY AND DEMOCRACY
May 17, 2023, 7:00 p.m. (Athens time)
The next event of the series of online lectures "Time for Action" will take place on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 7:00 p.m. (Athens time). The speaker will be Dr. Ashley Purpura, Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University (Indiana, USA) and the topic of the lecture will be "Orthodox Power
RESILIENCE, the European Research Infrastructure for Religious Studies, launches its second call for applications for Transnational Access Fellowships. The call will be open May 15 to July 1, 2023. Users will gain direct, fast, and effective access to the collections of leading research institutions and universities in Europe, guided by experts in the field .
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