October 14, Monday, at 6 pm (Kyiv time)
Speaker:
Paul L. Gavrilyuk,
Professor
Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy
Theology Department/ JRC 140
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
Rebuild Ukraine, Founding President
International Orthodox Theological Association, Founding President
Paul Gavrilyuk is Ukrainian American theologian and philosopher. He was born and spent his childhood in Ukraine. He is the founding president of Rebuild Ukraine (rebuild-ua.org), a non-profit organization that has provided nearly one million dollars in direct aid for Ukraine's defenders, refugees, and children affected by the war since 2022. He is also the founding president of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA, iota-web.org), which includes over 1,500 Orthodox leaders and scholars around the world. Translated into twelve languages, his books include, The Suffering of the Impassible God (Oxford, 2004), Histoire du catéchuménat dans l’église ancienne(Cerf, 2007), The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (co-edited with Sarah Coakley, Cambridge, 2012) and Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (Oxford, 2014).
Title: Two narratives of Ukrainian intellectual history: Dmitry Chizhevsky's Essays on the History of Philosophy in Ukraine and Georges Florovsky's Ways of Russian Theology
