We are very sad to hear of the passing last week of Archpriest Raphael Armour. Fr Raphael was the parish priest of the Russian Orthodox Parish of St Ephraim, and many other things to many people. It was our privilege to have him at our recent consultation at The Hayes in June. Memory eternal!
A wonderful tribute to him is found on the IOCS website, here.
On April 12, LOI held an online discussion on Bradley Nassif’s new book The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church. Fr Dragos Herescu a Romanian Orthodox parish priest and director of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK, Dr Danut Manastireanu, a Romanian Anglican theologian discussed with the author, Dr Bradley Nassif, a leading academic…
At the second Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI) consultation which will be held in Tirana, Albania in September 2014, the first main topic which will be addressed by participants will be our different understandings of the process of conversion or spiritual transformation. Exactly ten years ago three leading Evangelical scholars wrote on the topic of conversion in the…
In a shock statement today the World Evangelical Alliance has announced the cancellation of its planned global Assembly in October this year. The global community of Evangelicals have been planning for several years to meet in Seoul, South Korea, bringing together up to 7,000 particpants under the theme “Following Jesus Christ into the World”. Today’s statement…
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) reports that, “Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, Secretary General of the WEA recently met with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in Istanbul, Turkey. Together they discussed the current crisis and the plight of Christians in Syria, Iraq and the Middle East region. A specific emphasis of the conversation was on…
The book edited by Brad Nassif and Tim Grass, Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective, has been published online and is freely accessible on the MDPI Books platform (http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4648). The reprint book will be listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Google Books and WorldCat and is available through several distribution…
Brad Nassif, a long-standing participant in the work of LOI, has just released another book, which is sure to be of interest to all who seek closer relations between the Evangelical and Orthodox traditions. It will be launched by St. Vladimir’s Seminary this Saturday (Oct 2) at an event in Cleveland, Ohio. Here is the…