November 21, 2018

What Hacth Ricoeur to do with Schmemann?

by Dr, Brian Butcher, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. 

 

Brian A. Butcher is currently Lecturer and Research Fellow in Eastern Christian Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael's College. He has taught for the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute for the past seven years; at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, as Assistant Professor, he offered courses in both Eastern and Western Christian traditions; he also lectures at Ottawa’s Augustine College. His first major monograph has recently been published with Fordham University Press: Liturgical Theology After Schmemann: An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur. His chapter on "Orthodox sacramental theology in the 16-19th centuries" is in the Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology (OUP, 2015). He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Oriental Liturgy and the North American Academy of Liturgy. He is a subdeacon in the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church.