http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/index.php/2415-783X/gateway/plugin/AnnouncementFeedGatewayPlugin/atom Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology: Announcements 2025-04-04T19:38:34+03:00 Open Journal Systems <p><em>Theological Reflections: The Eastern European Journal of Theology</em> is a peer-reviewed, open access journal founded as a forum for open discussion of current theological issues, especially but not exclusively concerning the Evangelical Protestant tradition in Central and Eastern Europe. The journal publishes original theological research in biblical studies, systematic, historical and practical theology, missiology, public and political theology, ecumenical studies, etc.</p> http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/announcement/view/1794 Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Issue 23.2 (2025) on Diaspora Theology 2025-04-04T19:38:34+03:00 Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Eastern European Journal of Theology is pleased to announce a call for papers for the issue on Diaspora Theology, exploring the theological implications of the global movement of peoples, cultures, and religious identities. We invite scholars to submit original research that engages with diaspora communities and examines how migration, displacement, and cultural exchange shape religious practices, beliefs, and theological reflections.</span></p> <p><strong>Topics may include, but are not limited to:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biblical perspectives on migration and exile</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identity, religion, and belonging in diaspora communities</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Migration and mission: practical challenges and theological responses&nbsp;</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intersection of culture, ethnicity, and religion in shaping theological expressions in diaspora settings</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diaspora Christians and theological education</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diaspora and postcolonial theological readings</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In/Hospitality in times of migration: theological and philosophical insights</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The role of diaspora churches for interreligious dialogues and ecumenical relationship</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Russian aggression against Ukraine and the theological and ethical challenges for the Ukrainian evangelical diaspora</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Submission Guidelines:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We accept papers in English and Ukrainian languages.</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A paper must include a title, abstract, keywords, list of references, and the author’s full name and affiliation.</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abstracts 200 words.</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full papers 5,000-6,000 words without references.</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We accept articles in the Chicago Manual of Style </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">18 ed. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first time a source is cited, provide a full footnote citation; for subsequent citations of the same source, use a short version.</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please submit papers via the website </span><a href="http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/login"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/login</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. If you need help with submission, contact us </span><a href="mailto:reflections@eeit-edu.info"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reflections@eeit-edu.info</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Please note that the system accepts article metadata in both Ukrainian and English. If you cannot submit it in both languages. Use one language for both fields.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For further details, please see </span><a href="http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/guidelines"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/guidelines</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>The deadline for submitting materials is Sep 15, 2025.</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We look forward to receiving your contributions on this timely and important topic.</span></p> 2025-04-04T19:38:34+03:00 http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/announcement/view/1712 Call for Papers: The editorial board invites to submit articles for publication in the issue 23.1 (2025) Theology of Memory in the Context of Experiencing Trauma and Collective Violence 2024-07-24T07:25:17+03:00 Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Memory plays a key role in forming and preserving personal, social, and cultural identity. It is no coincidence that the Book of Revelation chastises those who have forgotten their first love. There are different ways of reconstructing the past, but they all involve a complex interweaving of the past with the present and the future. The fragility and fragmentation of memory link the concept of the past to two other concepts: remembering and forgetting.&nbsp; This issue of the journal aims to explore the intersections of remembering and forgetting from different theological perspectives, as well as the relation between other complex processes of memory, such as disregard, denial, alienation, and imagination, the recovery of memories, and the individual and collective reconstruction of relations with the past. Given the interdisciplinary nature of memory studies, we will accept for publication in this issue not only theological studies but also articles that consider philosophy, anthropology, sociology, neurophysiology, cognitive science, literary studies, and other disciplines.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a theological reflection on these issues, the Editorial Board invites authors to submit articles that address the following topics:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Memory, tradition, and text: social memory theory and its impact on biblical studies</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">God, remembering and forgetting in the Old Testament</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biblical understanding of the experience of war and collective violence</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collective memory and identity in early Christianity</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">St. Augustine on inner memory (</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">memoria interior</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">) as the foundation of inner experience and knowledge of God</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Lord's Supper: theological and liturgical meanings of the Commemoration of Christ's death</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The end of memory? Miroslav Wolf on the peacemaking role of remembering and forgetting&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the shadow of trauma: remembering the reality of traumatic experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wrestling with the past: theology and politics of memory&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Johann Baptist Metz and the “dangerous memory” of the victims of history as a space for creative thinking and seeds of change</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Places of memory, their material, symbolic, and functional meanings</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dementia as a theological and ethical issue</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The future of memory in the age of artificial intelligence</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recollection and memory of victims in the theology of William T. Kavanaugh</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We accept original and overview articles, as well as reviews, covering this complex topic. The article's length should not exceed 5,000 words.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The deadline for submitting materials is February 15, 2025. The date of publication of the issue is May 15, 2025.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To submit an article, please upload it on the journal's website: </span><a href="http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/about/submissions"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/about/submissions</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guidelines for authors are available here: http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/guidelines&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For additional questions and suggestions, please contact reflections@eeit-edu.info.</span></p> 2024-07-24T07:25:17+03:00 http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/announcement/view/1703 Eastern European Journal of Theology calls for papers for the next issue 22.2 "Disability Theology: Eastern European Context" 2024-06-17T20:22:25+03:00 Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues, the Editorial Board of “Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology ” invites papers that reflect on disability in Eastern European context.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The problems of people with disabilities affect not only doctors and therapists. In the twentieth century, they drew attention of sociologists, philosophers, and cultural critics. What began as a movement for a decent independent life for veterans of the two world wars turned into a movement for the rights of a minority that was systematically pushed to the periphery of public life. This resulted in changes in the legal and social spheres. In the early 1980s, the foundations were laid for a whole new field - disability studies. And in the 1990s, the field attracted attention of theologians.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking about Ukrainian reality, according to official statistics, 2.7 million people with disabilities were registered in Ukraine before the full-scale invasion. According to the available data, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the number of such people has increased by at least 300,000 of those who became disabled due to the war. This number is likely to grow as the fighting continues.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All this raises a serious question: are the churches of Eastern Europe and Ukraine ready for this new reality? To what extent do our theology and church practices take into account such people? Are we ready not only to see them on our streets in everyday life but also to accept them on their terms, according to their capabilities? What do we consider "normal" and why?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The editorial board would like to dedicate the next issue of the journal (22.2, 2024) to the discussion of disability from biblical, theological, historical, and practical perspectives. We invite theologians, Christian philosophers, pastors, and practitioners to contribute. Articles may address but are not limited by the following topics:</span></p> <ul> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disability theology as a critique of “normality” and “ableness”</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disability in the Old and New Testaments</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Healing in the New Testament: a perspective from disability theology</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The fall, broken creation, and disability</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The cross of Christ and disability theology</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disability and Imago Dei</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disability and the resurrection of the body</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusivity, accessibility, and accepting the Other</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People with disability in Church history</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Church as the Body of Christ: implications for disability theology</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Church of all and for all?</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open community and open table: liturgical and ecclesiological aspects of disability</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ministering to others or ministering with others?</span></li> <li class="show" style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disability in mass culture</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We consider original papers, overview papers, and reviews on this complex subject. The paper should not exceed 5,000 words.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The deadline for submission –&nbsp;September 15, 2024. The estimated date of publication&nbsp;is December 15, 2024.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To submit the paper, you need to upload it on the journal’s website: http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/about/submissions. The author’s guidelines should be consulted at the link </span><a href="http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/guidelines"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/guidelines</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Should you have additional questions or suggestions, write to us at </span><a href="mailto:reflections@eeit-edu.info"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reflections@eeit-edu.info</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> 2024-06-17T20:22:25+03:00