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.

March 14, 2018

The Colonizing Power of Song and Other Ways of Singing

by Becca Whitla, Ph.D. Cand. Toronto School of Theology

Becca Whitla, BFA, MSMus, CRCCO, ARCT, is a doctoral candidate at TST with a focus on liberationist, decolonial and postcolonial perspectives on congregational song. With over twenty years of music-making experience—from congregations and multifaith events to community choirs and multidisciplinary artistic collectives—she has served as the Music Director at Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto, has taught courses at Emmanuel College, Toronto, and Seminario Evangélico de Matanzas, Cuba, is a SSHRC scholarship winner, and is presently Interim Director of Chapel at Emmanuel. Her peer-reviewed publications include several journal articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries related to her dissertation research.

January 24, 2018

The Epiclesis in Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers

by Dr. Pablo Argárate (University of Graz - Austria) 

The belief that God is One and Three forms without doubt the core of Christianity. However, while the highly conflictive development of the doctrine on the second Person is well known, the role and relevance of the third Person in the Trinitarian dogma remain obscure and to a great extent subordinated. The present lecture addresses the emerging Pneumatological discourse, based however not on the Patristic Pnematological treatises, but on the analysis of the evolution of the epiclesis up to the beginning of the fifth century, focusing upon its different forms in the main Eastern ancient anaphorae. It presents their essential characteristics and differences, paying particular attention to the technical terminology and function. In this way, it explores the different theological substrata patent in the diverse formulae. Liturgy precedes the theological reflection and, in the same time, follows it.

Prof. Pablo Argarate is Professor of Patristic at the Faculty of Theology  and Head ot the Institute for Ecumenical Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Patristicat the University of Graz.