This was the topic of Sergii Bortnyk’s article in the German-language magazine “Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West” (Religion and Society in East and West), published in November 2025. This issue of the magazine was dedicated to the 100th Read More …
Author: bfadmin
Clarification of Catholic teaching on the Virgin Mary: not Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix, but Mother of Christ and of all Christians
On 4 November 2025, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published a doctrinal note entitled “Mater populi fidelis”. The subtitle clearly indicates the subject of this note: “On Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Read More …
Members of the CF “Academic initiative” co-authored a German-language volume entitled “Christianity as an Educational Religion”
In late autumn 2025, the German publishing house transcript Verlag released a collection of ecumenically oriented articles titled Christianity as an Educational Religion: Biblical-Theological and Confessional Perspectives. The authors of the published texts are specialists in Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Read More …
Cambridge hosted a conference on rethinking the theory and practice of ecumenical cooperation between the churches
On 5–6 December 2025, Jesus College, Cambridge, hosted an International Conference entitled “Rebooting Ecumenism: New Paradigms for the 21st Century.” The event was organised by the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS), founded over 25 years ago, and the Huffington Read More …
On the issue concerning the forms of reception of Tradition in Orthodox thought of the 20th and 21st centuries
In the course of the 20th century, representatives of theological studies were always explicitly or implicitly divided into two groups, depending on their attitude towards Tradition and the Church Fathers: (1) traditionalist scholars, firmly grounded in classical late antique achievements Read More …
A conference on understanding the ideology of the “Russian world” was held in Helsinki
On December 1–3, 2025, about 90 scholars, leaders of Christian communities, national church councils, and ecumenical organizations gathered for a conference in Helsinki, Finland. Among them were many Ukrainians who had come from Ukraine and many other countries where they Read More …
The Sofia Brotherhood held a discussion on church-state relations in Ukraine
On 11 December 2025, a meeting and discussion organized by the public association “Sofia Brotherhood” and supported by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Switzerland) took place in Kyiv. The theme of the meeting, “Dialogue between the Church, the State and Read More …
Sergii Bortnyk took part in the presentation of a book on conciliarity in contemporary Orthodox Christianity
On December 1, 2025, there was an intellectual event of great importance to Orthodox theology—the online presentation of the monumental volume, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Conciliarity in Modern Orthodox Christianity. As the title suggests, the book’s central theme is Read More …
Christianization of barbarism or barbarization of Christianity? On Western civilization from the perspective of Orthodox anti-Westernism
Greek philosopher Christos Yannaras (1935–2024) is considered to be one of the most controversial Orthodox advocates of the Hellenic heritage of the Orthodox East. Some evaluate his work as a model of intellectual audacity and originality; however, others see it Read More …
‘The UOC should send some talkative head to TV to tell everyone that we are Ukrainians and we love our people’
In recent years, Ukrainian society has developed a negative attitude towards the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as confirmed by various sociological surveys. An alternative to such surveys, which tend to show the superficial attitude of ordinary citizens towards religion, is the Read More …