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9.10.2023| East Meets West

The Status of the Reinstitution of Deaconesses in the Orthodox Church Today: Consecrated in Africa, Considered Elsewhere

Carrie Frederick Frost Much of my scholarship is on the topic of deaconesses and I am chair of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess, a US nonprofit dedicated to the reinstitution of deaconess in the Orthodox Church, because I perceive these possible changes to be a fulfillment of the Church’s teachings that will help […]

30.9.2021| East Meets West

East and West from Russia and Ukraine

Teuvo Laitila & Heta Hurskainen If the position of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) towards the West and East could be characterised by one word, it would be ‘mission’. Since the start of its missionary work, the East – Siberia, Alaska, Korea and Japan in the early 20th century – has been the ROC’s direction, […]

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2.9.2021| East Meets West

Where East Meets West

Heta Hurskainen I welcome you to read our blog, “East Meets West”!  The blog’s hub is the School of Theology at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). Despite the word “Eastern” in the name of the university, our School of Theology offers both Orthodox and Western theology to study and research. East meets West at […]

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EAST MEETS WEST is a blog of School of Theology at the University of Eastern Finland.

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