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We have just heard from Prof Daniel Munteanu inviting papers for the Journal of Orthodox Theology (see www.orthodox-theology.com). This is an on-line open access journal. Looking at their back issues I see it is a long time since they published anything on missiology. So here is the challenge … Would any of you who were…
Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky
LOI wishes to pay tribute to Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, who fell asleep in Christ on 3 August 2021. For more information, see the announcement by St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary at https://www.svots.edu/alumni-news/memoriam-protopresbyter-leonid-kishkovsky. Fr Leonid’s extensive ecumenical experience and contacts meant that he was able to be a great help and encouragement to LOI in its early…
LOI 2018: Discipleship and Christian Formation
I’ve not posted much lately, as we’ve been getting a newsletter up and running. (If you don’t receive it and would like to, get in touch.) But from 5-7 June 60 Orthodox and Evangelical leaders in mission, church, and school are gathering at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology near Boston, MA, for a…
Evangelism as Discipleship
Writing in the November 2014 edition of the International Review of Mission (the WCC journal on mission) Prof. Dimitra Koukoura says, “Christ’s commandment for the evangelization of the nations, which also clearly applies to re-evangelization, reveals two aims: catechesis and baptism (Matt. 18:19). The first is the departure of the faithful from the community to…
Conversion
Today we are making available to you another paper by Dr. Chris Wright. This one picks up a topic which will be central to our discussions at the second LOI consultation in Albania this coming September – Conversion. Drawing on his wide expertise in both Old and New Testament studies, Dr. Wright, looks closely at…
Reading the Bible in Ethiopia
As the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative prepares for its next major consultation in Addis Ababa this coming October we recommend a very interesting book on the contextual reading and understanding of the Bible. In An Ethiopian Reading of the Bible: Biblical Interpretation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Dr. Keon-Sang An argues that all interpretations of the…