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Faculty Footnotes

Unity in Diversity: The Opportunities and the Challenges

October 20, 2010

Dr. Peter Bouteneff

During this year’s Orthodox Education Day at our seminary I moderated a panel discussion between two (Eastern) Orthodox professors and two Oriental (Non-Chalcedonian) professors. Although the estrangement between these two bodies has lasted since the middle of the fifth century, for the past five decades a dialogue process has revealed convergences beyond all expectations. Our panel looked at the current state of our relationship. For years now, St Vladimir’s has offered a joint degree with St Nersess Armenian Seminary, and has benefited from a student body including also Malankara Indian, Syrian, Coptic, and Ethiopian students...

Alumni News

SVOTS ALUM AWARDED FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP

Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak

June 24, 2011

Brent Gilbert with wife Rachel and kids, Zelda, Max, and Theo.Brent Gilbert (SVOTS '04) has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Athens, Greece for the 2011/12 Academic Year. The fellowship will fund research for Brent’s dissertation, titled “The Image of God, Greek Medicine and Trinitarian Polemic in Gregory of Nyssa’s De Hominis Opificio.” Brent’s dissertation investigates the influence of the ancient Greek medical tradition upon the theological debates of the...

Seminarians Speak

Marching Peaceably, Praying Mightily

Seminarian Dn. David Wooten

January 26, 2012

Seminarian Dn. David Wooten marches for life, while holding the SVOTS banner.A dozen of us gathered before sunrise on January 23, 2012, outside the St. Vladimir’s Seminary Bookstore, to travel to our nation’s capital. We went to represent St. Vladimir’s at the 39^th annual March for Life, an event that marks the anniversary of the tragic ruling of our Supreme Court to allow for the termination of pre-born human life, at any stage of gestation, for any reason. Hundreds of thousands of participants came...

On Our Minds

Inside the offices of St. Vladimir's Dean and Chancellor

Very Rev. Dr. John Behr

Dean, Professor of Patristics

Authenticity to Tradition: Presenting the Unchanging Face of Christ to an Ever-changing World

September 28, 2010

After all the initial rush of a new academic year, and the various feasts and special events that we have celebrated, I am left with two very clear impressions.

First, how different things are now compared to when I arrived here seventeen years ago. There have been, of course, splendid new buildings, the result of very hard work by the Board and administration over many years. There has...