Eastern and Oriental Christianity in the Diaspora

edited by H.G.B. Teule and J. Verheyden

Book cover: Eastern and Oriental Christianity in the Diaspora

Extent: 237 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Eastern Christian Studies

Series volume number: 30

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2020)

ISBN: 9789042939776

Price: $98.00

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(May 2020)

ISBN: 9789042939783

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This volume contains a selection of papers read at an international colloquium on the way Eastern and Oriental Christianity has accommodated itself to a Diaspora situation. The colloquium was held at the KU Leuven in December 2016. Contributors focused on liturgical issues, ecclesiological and juridical questions, the way the Orthodox churches are trying to adapt to these and other challenges of modern West-European and North American society as this was addressed in the recent Council of Crete, and the attitude of Middle Eastern Diaspora Christians towards Islam. In an epilogue, one also gets an inside view on a recent initiative to establish a theological seminar for Syriac speaking Christians.


This volume contains a selection of papers read at an international colloquium on the way Eastern and Oriental Christianity has accommodated itself to a Diaspora situation. The colloquium was held at the KU Leuven in December 2016. Contributors have focused on liturgical issues (B. Groen, D. Galadza), ecclesiological and juridical questions (A. Kaptijn, V. Pnevmatikakis), the way the Orthodox churches are trying to adapt to these and other challenges of modern West-European and North American society as this was addressed in the recent Council of Crete (P. Kalaitzidis, P. Vlaicu), and the attitude of Middle Eastern Diaspora Christians towards Islam (A. Schmoller). In an epilogue, one also gets an inside view on a recent initiative to establish a theological seminar for Syriac speaking Christians (A. Shemunkasho).

  • Edited by HGB Teule
  • Edited by J Verheyden