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.
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The opening of the Conference took place on Thursday, May 11th. The topic of the Conference was briefly presented by the Director of Volos Academy, Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis. In his greeting message he connected the current event with the earlier one organized by the same institutions 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
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International Conference
INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY
IN THE WAKE OF THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE OF THE CHURCH
IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
May 11–14, 2023
“Thessalia” Conference Center
Melissatika, Volos, Greece
An international Conference on the topic “Individual and Community in the Wake of the Public Discourse of the Church in Orthodox Theology” will be held in the “Thessalia” Conference Center, Melissatika, Volos, Greece, between May 11 and 14, 2023. The Conference is organized by the Volos Academy
Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis at the Princeton University
Deliverance of lecture
THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW THEOLOGICAL AGENDA IN ORTHODOXY
AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE
On Friday, March 17, Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies lectured at the Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. The topic of the lecture was “The Emergence of a new Theological Agenda in Orthodoxy against the background of the War in Ukraine”. The event was organized by the
THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW THEOLOGICAL AGENDA IN ORTHODOXY
AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE
This lecture examines the religious dimension of the war in Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church has emerged as a supporter of the Russian state and a proponent of ‘Russian world’ ideology, which fills the vacuum left by communism, and is a form of civilizational nationalism with a messianic character, marked by a critique of human rights, and alignment with the far-right. Orthodox Christian