• Paul Ladouceur

    Paul Ladouceur

    Adjunct Professor at the Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada, and Professeur Associé, Faculté de Théologie et de Sciences Religieuses, Université Laval, Canada.

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Religion and Conflict

Orthodoxy, Russia’s Manifest Destiny, and the Russia-Ukraine War

by on July 6, 2022
by Paul Ladouceur | Русский Also available in Ukrainian (pdf) Several times Russian church and state leaders have been enraptured by the idea that the Russian people and its political expression have a special mission or “manifest destiny” to accomplish. Successive iterations of this “Russian idea” reflect a growing convergence of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism...

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Theology

Father Pavel Florensky, Philia, and Same-Sex Love

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by Paul Ladouceur and Fr. Richard Rene | български | Ελληνικά | Русский | Српски No longer do I call you servants, but I have called you friends.-John 15:15 (RSV) Father Pavel Florensky (1882-1937) is one of modern Orthodoxy’s intellectual giants. The scope of his eru... Read more.
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Christian Practice, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations

Some of My Best Friends Are Heretics
What Do Orthodox Really Believe?

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by Paul Ladouceur | Ελληνικά | српски Orthodox pride themselves on belonging to the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church” founded by Jesus Christ—and with good reason. Orthodox point to the loftiness of Orthodox theology, the beauty and solemnity of its liturgy, its myst... Read more.
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Inter-Orthodox Relations

Dispatches from the Western Front

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by Paul Ladouceur With all the attention devoted to the Eastern Front (the Ukraine) in the trench warfare between the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) and the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) for preeminence in Orthodoxy, the Western Front is largely ignored. The EP opened the Western Front on November 27, 2018... Read more.
Theology, Women in the Church

Deaconesses and the Camel’s Nose

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by Paul Ladouceur  |  ελληνικά  |  ру́сский  |  српски Opponents of women deacons in the Orthodox Church advance two principal arguments: the “natural and economical order of male and female”; and the conviction that women deacons will lead inexorably to a series of... Read more.
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Religion and Politics, Theology

Can Orthodox Support Human Rights?
The Divine Image, the Person, and Human Rights

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by Paul Ladouceur  |  ελληνικά Patristic anthropology, the theology of the human person and human rights are intimately related. Recognition of the close relationships among these three areas is essential to the elaboration of a sound Orthodox theology concerning the nature and status of ... Read more.
Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, Theology

On Ecumenoclasm: Salvation for Non-Christians?

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by Paul Ladouceur Early Christian thinking on non-Christian religions was conditioned by the official paganism of the Roman Empire, Greek philosophy, Christianity’s relationships with Judaism and flourishing mystery cults. Later, Orthodoxy had extensive historical experience, often but not entirel... Read more.

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