The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute

The purpose of our journal is to promote the continuity and originality of Russian theological thought and its development in the context of the achievements of modern knowledge of the humanities. The journal aims to publish studies in the field of Christian Dogmatic Theology, Ecclesiology, Missiology, Catechetics, Church History, Liturgics, Patristics, and other theological disciplines. We also aim to keep our readers informed about new relevant publications and academic conferences, as well as involve young colleagues in the professional community. The Journal publishes scholarly articles in Theology, materials from round table discussions, forums, and seminars, as well as new source material, archival documents, overviews, reviews, and translations.

The Quarterly Journal of Saint Philaret’s Institute is a peer-reviewed journal listed by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles under the rubrics “Theoretical Theology” (5.11.1),“Historical Theology” (5.11.2), and “Practical Theology” (5.11.3).

Journal Name in Transliteration: Vestnik Sviato-Filaretovskogo instituta. 
International (English language) Name: The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute. 
Publisher: St Philaret’s Institute.
Mass Media Registration Certificate: ПИ № ФС77-75308, registration date 15.03.2019. 
Frequency: Quarterly, since 2014. 

Each issue comes out in the final month of the season (winter in February, spring in May, etc.). Materials for publication must be presented by the beginning of the previous season, e.g. by 1 June for publication in the autumn issue, by 1 September for publication in the winter issue, etc.). 

Materials in both Russian and English are considered for publication. Every article receives an individual publication number (DOI). Publication is free-of-charge.

The Journal was first published in 2007; prior to spring 2019, it was published under the title The Light of Christ Enlightens All: Academic Peer-reviewed Journal of Saint Philaret’s Institute.

For any questions related to the periodical, please write to us at: sfi_journal@sfi.ru

Public Access Policy. Licensing

All the Journal’s issues are publicly available, free of charge. Directly after publication of a given issue, its electronic version appears in the publicly available archive of journal issues on the official website and also:

• on the KiberLeninka public research library resource;
• on the elibrary.ru portal.

Materials from the website may be used under license according to the following conditions: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Indexing

The Journal is indexed in the following databases: