Theologians and book lovers in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area can look for St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (SVS Press), the publishing house of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, at the Annual Meetings 2015, hosted by the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and held November 21-24, 2015.
“Exhibiting at the Annual Meetings is a highlight of the year for us,” commented Press Marketing Director Dn. Gregory Hatrak. “It gives us the opportunity to speak with the best religion scholars and connect with other theological publishers.”
The Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Langagues (SBL) is the largest gathering of scholars interested in the study of religion in the world. Approximately 10,000 members and exhibitors were present at last year’s meeting in San Diego, California.
“We are looking forward to sharing our recent releases with the Annual Meetings participants,” said Production Manager Michael Soroka. “Several of our series—including the well-known Foundations Series and our new Scholarly Monographs Series—have volumes released this year which make significant contributions to the study of Orthodox theology.” One of those new volumes is the much-anticipated work exploring the role of the Virgin Mary in the history of the Church: Gateway of Life: Orthodox Thinking on the Mother of God, by scholar Mary B. Cunningham.
The newest series at SVS Press, the Scholarship Monographs Series, aims to encourage the study of the Orthodox Church in academia through the publication of in-depth scholarship of the highest academic rigor. The first offering in this new series edited by seminary Dean The Very Reverend Dr. John Behr is Orthodox and Greek Catholics in Transylvania (1867–1916): Convergences and Divergences. It examines the relationship between the two Romanian communities by incorporating a wealth of archival information.
Other new and noteworthy releases include Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality, an important contribution to the field of ecclesiology by The Reverend Nicholas Loudovikos; and Prayer: Encounter with the Living God, a simple set of talkstranscribed and translated from television episodes presented on Russian television by His Eminence The Most Reverend Hilarion (Alfeyev), metropolitan of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations.
“We are also pleased to announce that our most exhaustive work on St. Isaac the Syrian will be formally released at the Annual Meetings,” continued Dn. Gregory. St. Isaac the Syrian and His Spiritual Legacy, edited by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), compiles papers delivered at the inaugural International Patristics Conference held in Moscow, 2013.
“For the first time, AAR/SBL will open the exhibit hall at the Annual Meeting to the public free of charge on Tuesday morning, November 24,” noted Deacon Gregory. “We hope this will give us an opportunity to catch up with many of our friends and seminary alumni living in the Atlanta area who may not be attending the conference.”
Visitors can find SVS Press at Booth 509 during the Annual Meetings 2015.
