On May 28-31 an International Conference was successfully held in Sofia Cultural Center, Helsinki on the general theme: “Political Orthodoxy and totalitarianism in the post-communist era”. The conference was organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in cooperation with the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University (New York, USA); the Chair of Orthodox Theology, Münster University (Germany); the Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter-Confessional and Inter-Religious Studies (INTER, Cluj-Napoca, Romania); the St Andrews Biblical Theological Institute (Moscow); the Institute for the Study of Culture and Christianity (Belgrade, Serbia); the Sankt Ignatios Orthodox Theological Academy (Stockholm, Sweden); and the
Dr. Richard Swinburne, is Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been an influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He aroused much discussion with his early work in the philosophy of religion, a trilogy
Τhe International Conference on “Political Orthodoxy and Totalitarianism in a post-Communist Era,” which will be held May 28-31, 2015, in Helsinki, Finland, and is being organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in cooperation with the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University (New York, USA); the Chair of Orthodox Theology, Münster University (Germany); the Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter-Confessional and Inter-Religious Studies (INTER, Cluj-Napoca
The first gathering of the St. Athanasius Lutheran-Orthodox Theological Fellowship took place at the Centre St. Thomas in Strasbourg, France, from March 25 to 29, 2015. The Fellowship is a new initiative of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in Volos, Greece, and the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg.
The Fellowship was founded in order to foster friendship and intellectual exchange between Lutheran and Orthodox theologians. Building on the great advances made by the
Throughout the 20th century and even more in the early 21st, Orthodoxy has been confronted with many unprecedented challenges which call for a radical re-evaluation of its identity. The various transformations and rapid changes at the political, social and spiritual levels during those years have highlighted the need for a sincere meeting of the Orthodox Church and theology with the quests of the postmodern pluralist society, which often seems to move without a compass. The necessity of a
On May 22-24, 2015, an International Scientific Doctoral and Post-Doctoral conference, organized and hosted by the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University, was successfully held in Prague on the general theme: “Ecumenical Reception and Critique of 20th century Orthodox theology in Exile and Diaspora”. It was the 5th conference in the framework of the project “Symbolic Mediation of Wholeness in Western Orthodoxy”, which was financed by the Czech Republic (GAČR P401/11/1688). The