The Centre for Anthropology and Ethnography of Orthodox Christianity (CAEO)
The Centre for Anthropology and Ethnography of Orthodox Christianity (CAEO) is an international, inter-institutional research centre bringing together the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge (IOCS) and Department of Anthropology, University College London, in a formal knowledge exchange partnership. The Centre studies Orthodox Christianity — both Eastern and Oriental — from an interdisciplinary anthropological and ethnographic perspective. It focuses on the phenomenon of being human, both in the specifics of the human person and in the wider context of being in relation and society.
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Contact: Revd Dr Boniface (Timothy) Carroll (Visiting Professor IOCS) at: t.carroll@ucl.ac.uk
The Cambridge Centre for Orthodox Studies in Ecumenism (CCOSE)
The Cambridge Centre for Orthodox Studies in Ecumenism (CCOSE) is functioning under the aegis of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge and has an international, inter-denominational and pan-Orthodox (both Eastern and Oriental) reach. The purpose of the Centre is to research ecumenical paradigms and developments in order to formulate and articulate a theology that rediscovers and reasserts ecumenism as an intrinsic essential aspect of the Christian faith. CCOSE aims to do this with regard to Orthodox theology in particular, but it also seeks to encourage new ways of incorporating ecumenism in the theologies of other traditions.
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Contact: Dr Razvan Porumb (Director of Research, Vice-Principal IOCS) at: grp29@iocs.cam.ac.uk
The Centre for Theology and Philosophy in Eastern Orthodoxy
The Centre for Theology and Philosophy in Eastern Orthodoxy investigates the relationship between theology and philosophy in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Its main purpose is to find answers to the challenges of modernity and postmodernity. It seeks alternatives that transcend the common dichotomies between an instrumental and a foundational use of philosophy, between onto-theology and post-metaphysical theology, and between rationalism and fideism. These approaches tend to either undervalue or overvalue reason and philosophy and thus fail to envisage their specific mediatory function in Christian thought.
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Contact: Dr Christoph Schneider (Academic Director IOCS) at cs300@iocs.cam.ac.uk