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
