Nicholas Denysenko / Ukraine, Russia, and the Church’s Unholy War

Theology Mill

Nicholas E. Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and Chair at Valparaiso University. He is the author of The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation (2018) and most recently of The Church's Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023) and This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made: The Liturgical Year in Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023).

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PODCAST LINKS:

The Church’s Unholy War: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666748154/the-churchs-unholy-war/

Prof. Denysenko’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicholasDenyse1

Prof. Denysenko’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-denysenko-03869811/

Prof. Denysenko’s academia.edu page: https://valpo.academia.edu/NicholasDenysenko

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SOURCES MENTIONED:

Denysenko, Nicholas. The Church’s Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy.

———. The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation.

———. This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made: The Liturgical Year in Orthodoxy.

OUTLINE:

(01:32) – From liturgical theology to Ukrainian (and Russian) church history

(06:32) – Personal experiences of Ukraine

(07:40) – Roundtable: Alexander Schmemann, Maria Skobtsova, Nicholas Afanasiev

(14:24) – Who’s involved: the Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia

(29:02) – Patriarchs Filaret, Bartholomew, and Kirill

(46:27) – Metropolitans Onufriy and Epiphaniy

(01:02:42) – The Maidan Revolution of Dignity and the creation of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

(01:08:56) – Why the Russian Orthodox Church justifies the war in Ukraine

(01:16:09) – Responses to the war from other Orthodox around the globe

(01:19:38) – What’s next for the global Orthodox churches

(01:24:02) – What’s next for Prof. Denysenko