Nicholas Denysenko / Ukraine, Russia, and the Church’s Unholy War

Nicholas E. Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and Chair at Valparaiso University. He is the author of The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation (2018) and most recently of The Church's Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023) and This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made: The Liturgical Year in Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023).

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PODCAST LINKS:

The Church’s Unholy War: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666748154/the-churchs-unholy-war/

Prof. Denysenko’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicholasDenyse1

Prof. Denysenko’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-denysenko-03869811/

Prof. Denysenko’s academia.edu page: https://valpo.academia.edu/NicholasDenysenko

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SOURCES MENTIONED:

Denysenko, Nicholas. The Church’s Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy.

———. The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation.

———. This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made: The Liturgical Year in Orthodoxy.

OUTLINE:

(01:32) – From liturgical theology to Ukrainian (and Russian) church history

(06:32) – Personal experiences of Ukraine

(07:40) – Roundtable: Alexander Schmemann, Maria Skobtsova, Nicholas Afanasiev

(14:24) – Who’s involved: the Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia

(29:02) – Patriarchs Filaret, Bartholomew, and Kirill

(46:27) – Metropolitans Onufriy and Epiphaniy

(01:02:42) – The Maidan Revolution of Dignity and the creation of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

(01:08:56) – Why the Russian Orthodox Church justifies the war in Ukraine

(01:16:09) – Responses to the war from other Orthodox around the globe

(01:19:38) – What’s next for the global Orthodox churches

(01:24:02) – What’s next for Prof. Denysenko