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In the course of the twentieth century, contacts between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and Western Christianity, its concepts and values, took place on two levels. The first was occasioned by the emigration of Russian theologians to the West in the first decades of the century, and the second by the “invasion” of Western theological ideas into the “canonical territory” of the ROC through ecumenical contacts and the translation of theological works into Russian since the 1990s. In this context, Orthodox theologians found themselves in a twofold dialogue with the West: an encounter with “heterodoxy” (whether as part of ecumenical dialogue or in polemical opposition to it), and another with the Russian Orthodox diaspora, including such figures as Alexander Schmemann, John Meyendorff, and Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom), whose books appealed to a broad readership in Russia in the 1990s.
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Michael Evdokimov calls her “oie of the mist attractive personalities in the Orthodox Church in France, and beyond that in Europe.” See the preface to the posthumous English translation of some of her most important articles, Discerning the Signs of the Times. The Vision of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Michael Plekon and Sarah E. Hinlicky, eds. (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001), p. ix.
Kallistos Ware and E. Behr-Sigel, L’ordination des femmes dans L’Eglise orthodoxe (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1998).
Thomas Hopko, Christian Faith and Same-Sex-Attraction. Eastern Orthodox Reflections (Chesterton, IN: Conciliar Press 2006).
John Breck and Lyn Breck, Stages on Life’s Way. Orthodox Thinking on Bioethics (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2005).
Alexander Schmemann, Church, World, Mission. Reflections on Orthodoxy in the West (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1979).
The first scholarly monograph on this issue in Russia is the collective work of three female Orthodox church historians: Elena Belyakova, Nadezhda Belyakova, and Elena Emchenko, Zhenshchina v pravoslavii: tserkovnoe pravo i rossiyskaya praktika (Woman in Orthodoxy: Canon law and Russian practice) (Moskva: Institut Rossiiskoy istorii Rossiiskoy Akademii Nauk, 2011).
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Briskina-Müller, A. (2014). The Search for a New Church Consciousness in Current Russian Orthodox Discourse. In: Krawchuk, A., Bremer, T. (eds) Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377388_5
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