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 …
A world conference dedicated to the search for visible unity among Christians was held in Egypt
From 24 to 28 October 2025, the Sixth World Conference of the Faith and Order Commission took place in the Egyptian valley of Wadi El Natrun. This became quite an extraordinary event, as the previous conference of this commission took Read More …
A new book by Rev. Dr. Andrii Shymanovych, “The Catholic Movements of Religious Renewal in the 20th Century,” has been published
In November 2025, the new book by archpriest Andrii Shymanovych has been published. It is entitled Catholic Movements of Religious Renewal in the 20th Century: Modernism, Neo-Thomism, Nouvelle Théologie. This study is the latest monograph in a series of books Read More …
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun on the history of interaction and separation between ideology and theology
One of the continuing characteristics of any period of Church history has been the interaction, whether positive or negative, between the religious and political realms. Since the 19th century, the Church has faced a somewhat modified form of this relationship Read More …
The dynamics of reorientation in Greek Orthodox theology over the past five decades
Much has been said and written about the reconfiguration of Orthodox theological thought in the mid-twentieth century and the fundamental change in methodological approaches. The so-called ‘generation of the 1960s’ indeed brought about a real paradigm shift in the understanding Read More …