Current Grants
Author: Vera Shevzov, Ph.D.
Project Title: Toward an Orthodox Theology of Vocation: Contributions from Modern Russian Orthodoxy in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Project Abstract: In addition to drawing on Scripture and liturgy, contemporary Orthodox theological formulations concerning the topic of vocation and ministry tend to draw primarily on patristic texts from the Byzantine period. While this is understandable given the place that the patristic heritage occupies in the Orthodox understanding of Tradition, such an approach also tends to overlook and even minimize the historical experience of Orthodox Christians in the post-Byzantine world. With an aim towards contributing to an Orthodox theology of vocation in America in the 21st century, this project casts the historical net wider and searches the rich literary and pastoral inheritance from modern Russia's culture of elders (namely, from the 19th and early 20th centuries). The proposed project will result in an essay tentatively entitled, "Measuring the Steps of Life in a Modern World: Wisdom from Prerevolutionary Russia."
Authors: Oana Godeanu, Ph.D. and Scott Kenworthy, Ph.D.
Project Title: Orthodoxy and Higher Education in Post-Communist Romania
Project Abstract: This project will investigate the relationship between Orthodoxy and higher education in Romania before and after the collapse of communism in 1989. It will include a historical sketch of theological education in Romania before 1989, and will focus on two aspects of that relationship in the post-communist age. The first will explore the place of theological education in the state university system in Romania, while the other will analyze the role of Orthodox student organizations and their ministry in the Orthodox formation of university students. The project will consist of research in the libraries of the Universities of Bucharest and Sibiu, and of interviews, both to be conducted in the summer of 2009. The academic part of the study will have as final outcomes a conference paper and an article, while the practical side of the project will provide new ideas and activities that will help to enhance the OCF, particularly at Miami University.
To see examples of full proposals, please contact the OVM.
About the OVM
The Office of Vocation & Ministry (OVM) at Hellenic College trains and educates faithful, energetic, high achieving, and service oriented Orthodox Christian young people to be leaders in the church as priests and lay people.
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