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SUMMARY: The Uniates and the Invention of Eastern Orthodoxy: Late Byzantin
 e and early Ukrainian Advocates of Church Union in the Crossfire between R
 ome\, Constantinople\, and Moscow  - Dr Yury Avvakumov\, Assistant Profess
 or of Theology\, University of Notre Dame\, Indiana
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DESCRIPTION:*The Second Annual Public Lecture in Medieval and Early Modern
  Slavonic Studies*\n\nThe concept of “Eastern Orthodoxy\,” as a counte
 rpart to “Roman Catholicism” and “Protestantism\,” is a product of
  a much later development than most of us are wont to think today. Applyin
 g the contrasting binaries of “Catholic—Orthodox” and “Protestant
 —Orthodox” to the study of Byzantine and early Slavonic religious hist
 ory is particularly problematic. Such dichotomies anachronistically projec
 t the clear-cut denominational map of present-day Christianity into the la
 te Medieval and Early Modern era. In this context\, Byzantine and Slavonic
  intellectuals and ecclesiastical figures who advocated union with the Rom
 an Church in the period from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth cen
 tury present a special challenge for historical exegesis. Stigmatized as 
 “traitors” by their contemporaries and caught in the crossfire of reli
 gious disputes and quarrels of their day\, the “uniates\,” as an intel
 lectually coherent group\, have hardly received the attention they deserve
  in modern research. Historians have often proved to be clueless when conf
 ronted with a reality that does not fit into the conventional confessional
  paradigm. \n\nThis lecture offers a critical re-evaluation of the scholar
 ship and suggests new approaches and research questions within this though
 t-provoking area of study. Engagement with the historical destiny of the u
 niates leads to a reconsideration of the influential “confessionalizatio
 n paradigm” (Konfessionalisierungsparadigma) in Eastern European context
  and casts new light on the birth of “Eastern Orthodoxy” as ecclesial 
 reality and theological idea. \n\n*Yury P. Avvakumov* teaches history of C
 hristianity in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame\
 , IN. He specializes in the history of medieval Christianity\, with a focu
 s on Latin-Byzantine relations\, and in the religious history of Ukraine a
 nd Russia of the Early Modern and Modern periods. He is also broadly engag
 ed with history of the Byzantine-rite Catholic Churches from their medieva
 l beginnings to the present day. \n\nDr Avvakumov completed his studies in
  Orthodox theology in St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and his doctorate in Catho
 lic theology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich\, Germany.  Prior t
 o coming to Notre Dame in 2010\, Prof. Avvakumov held numerous academic po
 sitions in Germany\, Ukraine\, and Russia\, including six years at the Ukr
 ainian Catholic University in Lviv where he served as Dean of Humanities a
 nd the founding chair of the Department of Classical\, Byzantine\, and Med
 ieval Studies. He was also a member of the Board of Theological Experts at
  the Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church in Kyiv\, Uk
 raine\, in 2007-2011.\n\nAvvakumov’s publications include a monograph on
  the medieval controversies between Latins and Byzantines (_Die Entstehung
  des Unionsgedankens. Die lateinische Theologie des Hochmittelalters in de
 r Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ritus der Ostkirche_. Berlin 2002)\, which ap
 peared in Ukrainian translation in 2011\, and an edition of the documents 
 related to the history of Byzantine-rite Catholics in Ukraine and Russia f
 rom Ukrainian archives (_Mytropolyt Andrei Sheptytskyi i hreko-katolyky v 
 Rosiji\, 1899-1917_. Lviv 2004). He has also contributed numerous chapters
  to volumes on history of Latin\, Byzantine\, and Slavic Christianity\, as
  well as articles to such scholarly journals as _Ostkirchliche Studien_\, 
 _Una Sancta_\, _Communicantes_\, _Kovcheh_ (Lviv)\, _Bogoslovskie Trudy_ (
 Moscow)\, _Bohoslovja_ (Lviv)\, and others.\n
LOCATION:Latimer room\, Clare College\, Cambridge
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