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  How Can We Achieve Church Unity?

  Theologians from 14 countries and 7 churches discuss this issue at a recent SFI conference

  13 April 2021
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  Is Knowledge Power? Scholar Aleksej Starobinskij Questions Theologians

  Physicists and theologians speak about creativity and spiritual power (Part 2)

  06 April 2021
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  Can We Expect a Burst of Energy Similar to the Birth of Christ in the Near Future?

  Physicists and theologians speak about creativity and spiritual power (Part 1)

  06 April 2021
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  Angels Helped to Build this House

  Saint Philaret’s Institute Opens a New Academic and Administrative Building

  23 September 2020
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  SFI Opens its new Faculty of History

  The new History Faculty seeks to become a laboratory for making sense of 20th century Russian history – in terms of both church and society

  15 September 2019
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  The Church is Made of Faith

  Participants of SFI’s Annual Theological Conference discuss the church’s ministry and her structure

  22 June 2019
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  Using Theology’s Nuclear Potential Peacefully

  What is the basis for contemporary thought in theology, what are modern theologians striving for and from what are they seeking to distance themselves? Expert Poll

  05 June 2019
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  The Human Person as Momentum

  Bose Conference Participants think about tendencies in modern Theological Thought

  22 September 2018
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  Forge Spiritual Bonds in Community!

  How the Russian church is responding to Patriarch Tikhon’s call 100 years after the fact

  13 February 2018
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  A Second “Fall of Man”

  100 years ago began a great period of experimentation on the “human material” of the Russian nation; what next?

  04 January 2018
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  Khomyakov – an Amateur Theologian of Great Value

  Where the first Russian theologian found the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic”

  27 November 2017
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  Four Days in the Company of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  SFI Student Ksenia Tsvetkova reports on how his native city preserves the memory of this well-known theologian and martyr

  09 October 2017
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  In Search of the Aristocratic in Spiritual Experience

  Revisiting the pilgrimage to Italy, recently made by Fr. Georgy Kochetkov and a group of staff from St. Philaret’s Institute together with members of the Transfiguration Brotherhood

  04 July 2017
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  Between Eucharistic Ecclesiology and the Reality of Parish Life

  An International Theological Symposium on Ecclesiology run by St Philaret’s Institute (+Video)

  31 May 2017
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  The Boundaries of the Church, the Role of Laypeople and Church-State Relations: Key Questions in Contemporary Ecclesiology

  A panel of experts on the key questions for contemporary church life and theology

  31 May 2017
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  A Pilgrimage to a Land Across the Sea

  The SFI Rector, lecturers and students take a trip to Cyprus

  20 July 2016
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  An Orthodox Knight from a Memling painting

  In blessed memory of Archpriest Ignace Peckstadt

  12 May 2016
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  Christ is Risen!

  01 May 2016
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  Turning Toward the Human Person

  Experts speak on some major themes in contemporary theology

  13 October 2015
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  Physicists and Theologians in Pursuit of the Meaning of Life

  St. Philaret’s Institute holds another ‘Physics and Theology’ conference

  30 December 2014
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  Memorial Day

  Victims of Soviet Repressions Remembered in Prayer at St Philaret’s Institute

  01 November 2014
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  Olga Sedakova Delivers a Lecture on ‘Poetry and Anthropology’ at St Philaret’s Institute

  02 September 2014
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  Christ Provides No Guarantees

  St Philaret’s Institute held its international conference “Catechesis in the Tradition of the Holy Fathers: The Theme of Mankind on the Main Stage of Catechesis”

  23 May 2014
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  God Does Not Commit Evil

  Catechists discussed the Fall and its consequences

  21 May 2014

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