Tim Grass and Brad Nassif are delighted to announce the appearance of the long-awaited special issue of the open-access online journal Religions on the theme of ‘Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective’. Articles are available for free download from: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Orth_Evan#info. Contributors are drawn from many parts of the world, and many of the articles break fresh ground for this dialogue.
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