Orthodox Theology

Articles and book chapters about Orthodox Theology (links to Academia page):

‘Modern Orthodox Thinkers’, in William J. Abraham and Frederick D. Aquino, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 578-590.

‘Diversity in Eastern Christianity: Historical Traumas and Cultural Dislocations’, in Michael J. Sweeney, ed., Justice through Diversity? A Philosophical and Theological Debate (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 359-372.

‘The Orthodox Renaissance’, First Things (December 2012), 33-37.

Republished as ‘Teaching Orthodox Theology in the Context of Christian Diversity’, in Pantelis Kalaitzidis et al., eds., Orthodox Handbook of Ecumenism: Resources for Theological Education (Volos, Greece: Volos Academy Publications, 2014), 884-888.

‘Lossky, Vladimir (1903-1958)’, in John Anthony McGuckin, ed., The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 372-373.

‘The Retrieval of Deification: How a Once-Despised Archaism Became an Ecumenical Desideratum’, Modern Theology 25/4 (October 2009), 647-659.

‘Eastern Orthodoxy (Philosophical Theology)’, in Paul Copan and Chad V. Meister, eds., The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2007), 476-486.

‘The Signs of Other Times: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Anti-Semitism, Pseudo-Apocalypticism, and Obscurantism in Today’s Russian Orthodox Church’, Religious Information Service of Ukraine, March 28, 2005.

«Вечен ли ад?» [‘Is Hell Eternal?’], Quo Vadis 25 (2004), 16-19. In Russian.

Conference papers and addresses about Orthodox Theology:

‘Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in Twentieth-Century Orthodox Theology’, a keynote address at the Ninth International Conference of the Sophia Institute at Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York, 9 December 2016. (linked below)

‘Russian Émigré Political Theology’, paper presented at the ‘Political Orthodoxy and Totalitarianism in a Post-Communist Era’ Conference, Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Helsinki, Finland, 28-31 May 2015.

‘Diversity in Eastern Christianity: Historical Traumas and Cultural Dislocations’, a public lecture presented at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, as a part of three-year series ‘Justice, Tolerance and Diversity’, 22 March 2013.

‘The Predicament of Orthodox Theologians in the US Academy: Five Major Transformations of the Past Century’, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Orthodox Theological Society of America, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, NY, September 2012.

‘The Varieties of Neopatristic Synthesis in the Twentieth Century Russian Theology: Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, Alexander Schmemann, and…Sergius Bulgakov’, a paper presented at the annual conference of the Orthodox Theological Society in America, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, September 2011.

‘The Retrieval of Deification’, paper presented at the Patristics Conference, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine, September 2009.

‘Deification in Recent Historical Research’, paper read at the Interdisciplinary Philosophical Theology Workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, May 2009.

‘The Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite in the Twentieth Century Eastern Orthodox Scholarship: A Reappraisal’, Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology, Boston College, Boston, MA, August 2007.

‘Theology in Color: Images of the Trinity in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition’, an address at the Annual Diocesan Assembly of the Orthodox Church in America, Dallas, Texas, May 2000.

A Response to Prof. Thomas Hopko’s paper ‘Apophatic Theology and the Naming of God in Eastern Orthodox Tradition’, Graduate Colloquy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, October 1998.

‘Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in Twentieth-Century Orthodox Theology’, a keynote address at the Ninth International Conference of the Sophia Institute at Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York, 9 December 2016.