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Research paper thumbnail of "Science and the Cappadocians: Orthodoxy and Science in the Fourth Century"

Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church, eds. Daniel Buxhoeveden and Gayle Woloschak, 29-40, 2011

... AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY: COMPATIBILITY AND BALANCE 1 Living with Science: Orthodox Elders a... more ... AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY: COMPATIBILITY AND BALANCE 1 Living with Science: Orthodox Elders and Saints of the Twentieth Century Daniel Buxhoeveden 2 Science and the Cappadocians: Orthodoxy and Science in the Fourth Century Valerie Karras 3 Divine Action ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas – Motherhood and Martyrdom”

Encountering Women of Faith, vol. 2, The St. Catherine’s Vision Collection, ed. Kyriaki Karidoyannis FitzGerald, 41-64, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of  “Orthodox Theologies of Women and Ordained Ministry”

Thinking through Faith, ed. Aristotle Papanikolaou and Elizabeth Prodromou, 113-158, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of “Priestesses or Priests’ Wives:  Presbytera in Early Christianity”

It is widely recognized within the academic community that women were ordained to the diaconate i... more It is widely recognized within the academic community that women were ordained to the diaconate in the Eastern church according to the evidence of early church orders, although there is still some disagreement as to the nature of the ordination, i.e., to "major" or "minor" orders. There is even more conflict among scholars regarding the ordination of women in the early church to the other two major orders of clergy, that is, the priesthood and the 1 Although it does not give the ordination rites, the early third-century Didascalia Apostolorum, extant in Syriac from a probable Greek original, parallels the ministry of female deacons to that of male deacons; A. Vööbus, The Didascalia Apostobrum in Syriac, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vols. 401/407, Syr. 175 and 179 (Louvain: Secretariat du Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 1979); English translation in A. Vööbus, The Didascalia Apostobrum in Syriac·, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vols. 402/408, Syr. 176 and 180 (Louvain: Secretariat du Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 1979). Book VIII, 3-5, 16-26, of the fourth-century Syriac Apostolic Constitutions, which is heavily dependent on the earlier Didascalia, gives the ordination rite for bishops, presbyters, deacons, deaconesses, subdeacons and readers, and the consecration rite for confessors, virgins, widows, and exorcists; Marcel Metzger, ed., tr., intro. critical text, notes, Les Constitutions Apostoliques, Tome III, Livres VII et Vili, Sources Chrétiennes 326 (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1987), 138-48,216-28; English translation in "Apostolic Constitutions," in Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7, reprint ed. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1994), 481-83, 491-93. 2 In the Apostolic Constitutions, the ordination of the deaconess is listed immediately

Research paper thumbnail of "Sex/Gender in Gregory of Nyssa's Eschatology: Irrelevant or Non-Existent?"

Research paper thumbnail of “An Orthodox Perspective on Feminist Theology”

The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, 523-532, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of "The Liturgical Functions of Consecrated Women in the Byzantine Church"

Although the ordained order of deaconesses vanished in the Byzantine Church, some women continued... more Although the ordained order of deaconesses vanished in the Byzantine Church, some women continued to fulftll, either informally or formally, various liturgical functions in public church life. The author examines^ the art-historical and textual evidence of three groups of women: noblewomen who participated as incense-bearers in a weekly procession in Constantinople; matrons who helped organize and keep order in a monastic church open to the public in Constantinople; and the possibly ordained order of myrrhbearers in the Church of Jerusalem.]

Research paper thumbnail of "A Re-Evaluation of Marriage, Celibacy, and Irony in Gregory of Nyssa's On Virginity"

Research paper thumbnail of "Overcoming Greed: An Eastern Christian Perspective"

Research paper thumbnail of "Female Deacons in the Byzantine Church"

Research paper thumbnail of "Beyond Justification: An Orthodox Perspective"

Justification and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement, ed. William G. Rusch, 99-131, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of “An Eastern Christian Response to Sulak Sivaraksa”

Socially Engaged Spirituality: Essays in Honor of Sulak Sivaraksa on His 70th Birthday, pp. 448-460, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of "Eschatology"

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology, ed. Susan F. Parsons, 243-260, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of "Some Ecumenical Principles for Writing and Teaching History"

Research paper thumbnail of "Women in the Eastern Church: Past, Present and Future"

Research paper thumbnail of “The Role of Women”

The American Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate: Governance, Diaspora, Role of Women, 43-47, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of “The Incarnational and Hypostatic Significance of the Maleness of Jesus Christ According to Theodore of Stoudios”

Research paper thumbnail of "St Elisabeth the Wonderworker"

Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation, ed. Alice-Mary Talbot, 117-135, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of "Patristic Views on the Ontology of Gender"

Personhood: Orthodox Christianity and the Connection between Body, Mind and Soul, ed. John Chirban, 113-119, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of "Panel on Personhood: Medicine, Psychology, and Religion"

Personhood: Orthodox Christianity and the Connection between Body, Mind and Soul, ed. John Chirban, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of "Science and the Cappadocians: Orthodoxy and Science in the Fourth Century"

Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church, eds. Daniel Buxhoeveden and Gayle Woloschak, 29-40, 2011

... AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY: COMPATIBILITY AND BALANCE 1 Living with Science: Orthodox Elders a... more ... AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY: COMPATIBILITY AND BALANCE 1 Living with Science: Orthodox Elders and Saints of the Twentieth Century Daniel Buxhoeveden 2 Science and the Cappadocians: Orthodoxy and Science in the Fourth Century Valerie Karras 3 Divine Action ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas – Motherhood and Martyrdom”

Encountering Women of Faith, vol. 2, The St. Catherine’s Vision Collection, ed. Kyriaki Karidoyannis FitzGerald, 41-64, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of  “Orthodox Theologies of Women and Ordained Ministry”

Thinking through Faith, ed. Aristotle Papanikolaou and Elizabeth Prodromou, 113-158, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of “Priestesses or Priests’ Wives:  Presbytera in Early Christianity”

It is widely recognized within the academic community that women were ordained to the diaconate i... more It is widely recognized within the academic community that women were ordained to the diaconate in the Eastern church according to the evidence of early church orders, although there is still some disagreement as to the nature of the ordination, i.e., to "major" or "minor" orders. There is even more conflict among scholars regarding the ordination of women in the early church to the other two major orders of clergy, that is, the priesthood and the 1 Although it does not give the ordination rites, the early third-century Didascalia Apostolorum, extant in Syriac from a probable Greek original, parallels the ministry of female deacons to that of male deacons; A. Vööbus, The Didascalia Apostobrum in Syriac, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vols. 401/407, Syr. 175 and 179 (Louvain: Secretariat du Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 1979); English translation in A. Vööbus, The Didascalia Apostobrum in Syriac·, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vols. 402/408, Syr. 176 and 180 (Louvain: Secretariat du Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 1979). Book VIII, 3-5, 16-26, of the fourth-century Syriac Apostolic Constitutions, which is heavily dependent on the earlier Didascalia, gives the ordination rite for bishops, presbyters, deacons, deaconesses, subdeacons and readers, and the consecration rite for confessors, virgins, widows, and exorcists; Marcel Metzger, ed., tr., intro. critical text, notes, Les Constitutions Apostoliques, Tome III, Livres VII et Vili, Sources Chrétiennes 326 (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1987), 138-48,216-28; English translation in "Apostolic Constitutions," in Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7, reprint ed. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1994), 481-83, 491-93. 2 In the Apostolic Constitutions, the ordination of the deaconess is listed immediately

Research paper thumbnail of "Sex/Gender in Gregory of Nyssa's Eschatology: Irrelevant or Non-Existent?"

Research paper thumbnail of “An Orthodox Perspective on Feminist Theology”

The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, 523-532, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of "The Liturgical Functions of Consecrated Women in the Byzantine Church"

Although the ordained order of deaconesses vanished in the Byzantine Church, some women continued... more Although the ordained order of deaconesses vanished in the Byzantine Church, some women continued to fulftll, either informally or formally, various liturgical functions in public church life. The author examines^ the art-historical and textual evidence of three groups of women: noblewomen who participated as incense-bearers in a weekly procession in Constantinople; matrons who helped organize and keep order in a monastic church open to the public in Constantinople; and the possibly ordained order of myrrhbearers in the Church of Jerusalem.]

Research paper thumbnail of "A Re-Evaluation of Marriage, Celibacy, and Irony in Gregory of Nyssa's On Virginity"

Research paper thumbnail of "Overcoming Greed: An Eastern Christian Perspective"

Research paper thumbnail of "Female Deacons in the Byzantine Church"

Research paper thumbnail of "Beyond Justification: An Orthodox Perspective"

Justification and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement, ed. William G. Rusch, 99-131, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of “An Eastern Christian Response to Sulak Sivaraksa”

Socially Engaged Spirituality: Essays in Honor of Sulak Sivaraksa on His 70th Birthday, pp. 448-460, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of "Eschatology"

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology, ed. Susan F. Parsons, 243-260, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of "Some Ecumenical Principles for Writing and Teaching History"

Research paper thumbnail of "Women in the Eastern Church: Past, Present and Future"

Research paper thumbnail of “The Role of Women”

The American Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate: Governance, Diaspora, Role of Women, 43-47, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of “The Incarnational and Hypostatic Significance of the Maleness of Jesus Christ According to Theodore of Stoudios”

Research paper thumbnail of "St Elisabeth the Wonderworker"

Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation, ed. Alice-Mary Talbot, 117-135, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of "Patristic Views on the Ontology of Gender"

Personhood: Orthodox Christianity and the Connection between Body, Mind and Soul, ed. John Chirban, 113-119, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of "Panel on Personhood: Medicine, Psychology, and Religion"

Personhood: Orthodox Christianity and the Connection between Body, Mind and Soul, ed. John Chirban, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of "Listeners' Report"

The Orthodox Churches in a Pluralistic World: An Ecumenical Conversation, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of “Fellowship Affairs:  The Conference of 1987”

Research paper thumbnail of The liturgical participation of women in the Byzantine church

Publikationsansicht. 33578629. The liturgical participation of women in the Byzantine church / (2... more Publikationsansicht. 33578629. The liturgical participation of women in the Byzantine church / (2002). Karras, Valerie A. Abstract. Typescript. Also microfilm.. Thesis (Ph. D.--Church Hist.)--Catholic University of America, 2002.. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-...

Research paper thumbnail of Orthodox Christian Perspectives on War

Many regions of the world whose histories include war and violent conflict have or once had stron... more Many regions of the world whose histories include war and violent conflict have or once had strong ties to Orthodox Christianity. Yet policy makers, religious leaders, and scholars often neglect Orthodoxy’s resources when they reflect on the challenges of war. Through essays written by prominent Orthodox scholars in the fields of biblical studies, church history, Byzantine studies, theology, patristics, political science, ethics, and biology, Orthodox Christian Perspectives on War presents and examines the Orthodox tradition’s nuanced and unique insights on the meaning and challenges of war with an eye toward their contemporary relevance. This volume is structured in three parts: “Confronting the Present Day Reality,” “Reengaging Orthodoxy’s Tradition,” and “Constructive Directions in Orthodox Theology and Ethics.” Each exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary reflection on “war” and the potential for the Eastern Orthodox tradition to enhance ecumenical and interfaith discussions surrounding war in both domestic and international contexts.