Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church
Explorations in Theology and Practice
edited by
Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya
WOMEN AND ORDINATION IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Explorations in Theology and Practice
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Names: Thomas, Gabrielle, 1974 , editor. | Narinskaya, Elena, 1973 , editor.
Title: Women and ordination in the Orthodox church : explorations in theology and practice / edited by Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya.
Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: isbn 978-1-5326-9578-0 ( paperback ) | isbn 978-1-5326-9579-7 ( hardcover ) | isbn 978-1-5326-9580-3 ( ebook )
Subjects: Ordination of womenEastern Orthodox Church | WomenReligious aspectsOrthodox Eastern Church | Women in the Eastern Orthodox Church | Eastern Orthodox ChurchDoctrines.
Classification: BX342.5 T46 2020 ( print ) | BX342.5 ( ebook )
Manufactured in the U.S.A. July 10, 2020
To Mary B. Cunninghaman excellent scholar, a dear friend, and a great blessing to Gods church.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Fr. John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Previously, he was the Fr. Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics at St. Vladimirs Seminary, where he served as dean from 2007 He has published numerous monographs with Oxford University Press and St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, most recently a new critical edition and translation of Origens On First Principles (Oxford University Press, 2017 ), together with an extensive introduction and a study of the Gospel of John (Oxford University Press, 2019 ); he has also published various works aimed for a more general audience, such as his more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2013 ). He is now working on a new edition and translation of the works of Irenaeus of Lyons.
Mary B. Cunningham is Honorary Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK. Previously to this, she worked and studied in Washington DC, Birmingham and London, UK. Professor Cunningham has published books and articles on Byzantine homiletics, hagiography, and the cult of the Virgin Mary. She has translated Wider than Heaven : Eighth-Century Homilies on the Mother of God (St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2008 ), and is co-editor of both The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2008 ), and The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images (Cambridge University Press, 2019 ). She is an Orthodox theologian and an amateur musician with an interest in early and Orthodox church music.
Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald , PhD, serves as an Orthodox theologian, educator and pastoral psychologist. She is presently adjunct is professor of theology at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, and most recently a visiting professor at the Toronto School of Theology of the University of Toronto. She has also served on the faculties of St. Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary, the Bossey Ecumenical Institute (Switzerland), Andover-Newton Theological School, and elsewhere. Co-founder and Executive Director of Saint Catherines Vision, she has published numerous books and articles including Women Deacons in the Orthodox Church: Called to Holiness and Ministry and edited Orthodox Women Speak: Discerning the Signs of the Times. She is also the editor of SCVs collaborative book series, Encountering Women of Faith , volumes , and serves on the staff of Pastoral Counseling Services of the South Shore (Hanover, MA) as a clinical psychologist and pastoral psychotherapist.
Carrie Frederick Frost is an adjunct professor of theology at St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Seminary, and lecturer at Western Washington University. She received a PhD in theology, ethics, and culture from the University of Virginia. She attends to matters of women and mothers in the church, sacraments and practice, Christian material culture, and contemplative prayer. Frost is the author of Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East (Paulist, 2019 ), and editor of The Reception of the Holy and Great Council: Reflections of Orthodox Christian Women (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, 2019 ). She is on the board of the International Orthodox Theological Association and the advisory board of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess.
Paul Ladouceur is an Orthodox theologian and writer living in Quebec, Canada. He teaches at the Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College (University of Toronto) and at the Montreal Institute of Orthodox Theology, affiliated with Universit Laval (Quebec). His edited books and articles include French translations of writings of St. Maria of Paris and of Fr. Lev Gillet, and articles concerning various aspects of modern Orthodox theology, ecclesiology, and spirituality. His most recent book is Modern Orthodox Theology (T. & T. Clark, 2019 ), and he has co-edited, with Brandon Gallaher (University of Exeter), The Patristic Witness of Georges Florovsky: Essential Theological Writings (T. & T. Clark, 2019 ). Dr. Ladouceur is responsible for the French-language website Pages orthodoxes la Transfiguration, and participates in the Canadian Council of Churches representing the Canadian Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church in America.
Fr. Andrew Louth is Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Durham University, and was Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Theology in the Faculty of Theology attached to the Amsterdam Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology (ACEOT), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, from 2010 to 2014 . His research has largely been in patristics, with monographs on Dionysios the Areopagite ( 1989 ), Maximos the Confessor ( 1996 ), and John Damascene ( 2002 ). His most recent books are Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology ( 2013 ), and Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present ( 2015 ). He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2010 , and is an archpriest of the Diocese of Sourozh (Moscow Patriarchate).
Elena Narinskaya was born in Moscow, Russia, where she studied Journalism and Literature at Moscow State University, and theology at St. Philaret Orthodox Christian Institute, in addition to studying Judaism and Hebrew at Ratisbone Pontifical Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Her second masters degree was in Cambridge, UK, at the Centre for Jewish-Christian Studies. She wrote her PhD and graduated from Durham University, UK. Her area of expertise is biblical stories and their expression in Abrahamic religions. She is author of Ephrem, a Jewish Sage: A Comparison of the Exegetical Writings of St. Ephrem the Syrian and Jewish Traditions (Brepols, 2010 ), The Poetic Hymns of Saint Ephrem the Syrian: A Study in the Religious Poetry in Fourth-Century Christianity (Mellen, 2013 ), and a number of articles. Currently, she carries an affiliation at the Department of Theology, University of Oxford.
