(1944-2025) Taught at the Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and the Montreal Institute of Orthodox Theology (affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec).
This article examines two important religiously based movements within Orthodoxy in terms of their relationship to fascism: the Legion of the Archangel Michael (better known as the Iron Guard), which flourished in Romania between 1927 and 1944; and the ideology of Russkii mir (the Russian world), the official policy of the Russian State and the[…..]
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The anthropologies of both Metropolitan John Zizioulas and Father Dumitru Stăniloae fall within the broad personalist movement in modern Orthodox theology. This movement identifies the principal philosophical and theological characteristic of human existence in the personal mode of existence of every human, an image of the mode of existence of the Persons of the Divine[…..]
The classic case of intellectual freedom in modern Orthodox theology is the mid-1930s controversy provoked by Father Sergii Bulgakov’s theology of Sophia or Divine Wisdom (sophiology). Bulgakov’s sophiology was put “on trial” by three instances of the Russian Orthodox Church; two denounced it, and the third determined that Bulgakov should not teach the doctrine at[…..]
