To highlight the long-awaited publication of The Journal of Joy, St Vladimir’s Seminary will host a book launch and public lecture.

On Thursday, February 20 at 6:30 p.m., in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium, Dr Răzvan Porumb, the author of the Foreword to the Journal of Joy, will deliver the lecture, “An Orthodox Spirituality for Today: Reading Steinhardt's Journal of Joy in Context.”

Following Dr Porumb’s talk will be a first-hand account describing the personality of Fr Nicolae Steinhardt given by Fr Ștefan Iloaie, professor of Orthodox Spirituality and Bioethics at the Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca), Romania.

Other distinguished guests who will be present for this event include His Grace, Bishop Andrei (OCA - ROEA), Archimandrite Macarie, the abbot of Rohia monastery, the Rev. Dr Radu Preda, professor of Theology at the Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca), Romania, and Mr Kenan Wang, Ph.D student in History at the University of Bucharest. 

Following the presentations, seminarians and guests will have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A session with the speakers about Fr Nicolae Steinhardt’s Journal of Joy and its witness to Orthodox spirituality. 

You are invited to attend the book launch and lecture in person or watch live online. You will receive one link to watch both after you register. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Light reception to follow the lecture. 

Online registration for this event has now closed.

 

About Dr Răzvan Porumb:

Dr Porumb is the Vice-Principal and Director of Research of the Institute for Orthodox Studies, in Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Orthodoxy and Ecumenism. Towards an Active Metanoia (Peter Lang, 2019) and a number of journal articles and essays among which are the following: "N. Steinhardt’s ecumenism and the impossible that is asked of us," in Tendances et directions dans les recherches actuelles des théologiens orthodoxes roumains de la diaspora, ed. C. C. Apintiliesei and C. Pogor (Cerf, 2022), 237-259; "The priorities of justice and freedom: re-learning Christianity with N. Steinhardt," St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 65 (2021): 191-206; "Assaulted by Joy. Nicolae Steinhardt (1912-1989)," Forerunner. Journal of the Orthodox Fellowship of St John the Baptist (2017). Prior to his relocation to the UK, he worked for the Metropolitanate of Moldavia (Iasi, Romania) as Editor-in-Chief at Trinitas Press, where he supervised and was involved in the publication and translation of numerous books and journals.