Academic Periodical

The conceptual apparatus of modern Orthodox Missiology

Orthodox Mission among Indigenous Small Peoples: History and Modernity

The Change of the Attitude to Death as One of the Criteria of One’s Commitment to the Church

Image of Christianity in Perception of Contemporary Russians (in Connection to Aims of Christian Mission in Russia)

Distinctive Aspects of Missionary Message in Writings and Life of Archimandrite Spyridon (Kislyakov) during His Prison Ministry (1901–1905)

Internal Mission by St Nicholas the Wonderworker Brotherhood in Vyatka in the late XIX and early XX Century

Main Stages of Catechesis for Normal Catechumens: Major and Minor Aspects

The Consistency Principle As Realised in the Early Church Catechism

The Polemic about the Attitude to Heretics in Russian Church in the First Third of the XVI Century

Overview of Activity of the Fraternity Sts Peter, Alexis, Iona and Philip, Metropolitans of Moscow (1909–1917)

Paradigm of Precatechesis of People with Anomalies and Peculiarities in Mental and Physical Health (Severely Ill, Mentally Handicapped, or Goners): Practice of the Early Church and Present-Day Experience

Paradigms of Pre-Catechesis in the Pre-Nicene Period and Their Relevance to the Modern Pre-Catechetical Practices of the Orthodox Church

Baptismal Sponsorship in Early Church and Ways of Using this Experience in Modern Catechetical Practice

Preaching of Repentance as an Important Part of Ecclesial Mission in Contemporary Protestant Churches in Russia

Pre-Catechesis in the Ancient Church and in the Theory and Practice of the Transfiguration Fellowship of Minor Orthodox Brotherhoods

“Missionary presence” of Charles de Foucault

Aims and Conditions of Catechumenate in the Patristic Tradition and their Possible Application in Modern Church Practice

Antimission in the Russian Orthodox Church in the late XIX – early XX century (1887–1918) 

Problems of a Homilist Preparation for Preaching

The Issue of Preserving the Ethnic Diversity of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in the Works of Orthodox Missionaries Dionysius (Khitrov) and Veniamin (Blagonravov)

Missionary Work in the Yekaterinburg Diocese in the late XIX and early XX century (on the basis of the Yekaterinburg Diocesan Bulletin, 1886–1917)

Educational Mission. A Note in relation to the Preparation of the Concept of the Missionary Activities of the ROC

“Real catechesis yields free souls”: Chief editor’s foreword

Personal and Interpersonal Christian Anthropology. General Introduction

Vladimir Solovyev’s Mission

The History of Translations of Orthodox Liturgical Texts into Russian in XVII–XX centuries: Spiritual and Educational Aspect

The Resolution of the 1917–1918 Local Council “On Church Preaching”: Historical Context and Crucial Tasks

«New Course» (1943–1953) in Relations between the State and the Church: the Case of Tula Diocese

Orthodoxy in Japan: Aspects of the missionary work of St Nicholas of Japan

The Structure of Catechesis in the Ancient Church according to the Text of Didache

Problems of Style in Contemporary Church Preaching

The Russian Spiritual Mission in China in the Second Half of the XIX Century 

The Word of God: Catechesis and the Sacraments

Requirements for Becoming a Catechumen: Experience the Transfiguration Brotherhood in the Context the Catechetical Practice of Ancient Church

The Impact of the Russian Orthodox Church Local Council Decisions in 1917–1918 on Missionary Activities Across Parishes in the Tver Deanery of the Tver Diocese in 1991–2011

Premarital Catechesis in the Context of Modern Church Pastoral Mission

Basic Principles of Catechization (based on sources of the 2nd – 5th centuries)

The Significance of Liturgical Language for Engaging Church People in Worship

Preaching in Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century (based on the materials of the journal “Guide for Rural Pastors”)

The Evolution of the Activity of St. Gury of Kazan Brotherhood (in the late XIX and early XX Century)

Issues of Pre-Catechesis in the Missionary Practice of the Russian Diaspora in 1920-1930s

Testimony to the Enlightened about the Church in Preaching on the Creed (examples from mid-fourth and early-fifth century catechetical homilies)

Directions of Christian Prebaptismal Catechesis in the I Century in correlation with the Second Stage of Catechesis in the Patristic Age (according to New Testament sources)

The Characteristics of the Missionary Work of the Archbishop of Kazan and Sviiazh Vladimir (Petrov)

The Influence of the Orthodox Mission on the Cultural and Everyday Life of the Altai Peoples

Analysis of “Responses of the Diocesan Bishops on the Issue of Church Reform” (1905–1906) in relation to Parish Development and Improvements

Distinctive Aspects of W. F. Marcinkowsky’s Missionary Message Delivered to Children and Youth in Early XX Century

Re-imagining Adult Faith Formation in the Syriac-Maronite Catholic Church

Missionary Ministry of the Laity

Education of Ethnic Minorities as a Missionary Activity Illustrated by Writings and Practical Experience of Nikolay Ivanovich Ilminsky

Testimony to the catechumens of faith in the Church (on the example of early Christian sources from the 2nd to the 5th centuries)

Problems of the Synod Internal Mission Missionaries’ Activities (According to “Missionary Review” Magazine Materials of 1896–1916)

Main Principles of the Mission of Altai Missionaries of the Second Half of the XIX – Early XX Century

Pre-Catechesis: Major Tasks and Ways of Realization

St Paul and the Two Ways: Pre-baptismal Catechesis in Romans 12–13

Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) of Moscow and His Catechism of 1757–1758

Church and World: “Orthodoxy in relation to Modernity” in the works of Archimandrite Theodore (Bukharyov)

On the problem of missionary reception of religious images of Samoyed peoples in the mission of the Russian Orthodox Church at the present stage

On the possibility of applying the subject-object and subject-subject approaches in theoretical missiology

On the Missionary Experience of the Transfiguration Fellowship of Minor Orthodox Brotherhoods

Problem of Superstitious Beliefs Among Parishioners and Ways of Dispelling Them in the Process of Catechesis. Reflections of a Catechist Based on Practical Experience

Actual Problems of the Orthodox Mission among Members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Religious Organization in Modern Russia  

The Theological Basis, History and Current Practice of Church Mission and Catechesis. Interviews with Archpriest Alexander Sorokin, Fr Georgy Kochetkov, Fr Alexei Maximov, Dimitrios Keramidas

SFI Publications on Missiology, Catechetics and Homiletics

From the Editor