Academic journal Logos undergoes makeover and restructuring (09/17/06)

Academic journal Logos undergoes makeover and restructuring

by Father Andriy Chirovsky

OTTAWA - The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at St. Paul University in Ottawa has recently published a new issue of Logos (Volume 46, 3-4), an academic journal devoted to all aspects of Eastern Christian studies, emphasizing both Orthodox and Catholic Eastern Churches, with a special, but not exclusive, interest in the Kyivan (Ukrainian) Churches of Ukraine.

Initiated in 1950 by the Yorkton Province of the Ukrainian Redemptorists, the journal is now published cooperatively by the Sheptytsky Institute, with continuing support from the Redemptorists.

Logos publishes articles of original scholarship and book reviews together with occasional historical documents. All the contents pertain to the theological (especially patristic), spiritual, liturgical and canonical life of the Christian East in its Catholic, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and related manifestations. The journal is also very interested in ecumenical relations not only among Eastern Christians, but also those between various Eastern and Western traditions.

After an exhaustive study by the editorial board, Logos has recently undergone an extensive restructuring and revisioning process and has emerged in a much stronger form, under the direction of Editor-in-Chief Father Andriy Chirovsky. He is aided by Associate Editor Adam DeVille and Managing Editor Father Andrew Onuferko, and supported by a closely engaged editorial board and a broader editorial committee, that functions in a more advisory capacity and includes world-renowned scholars.

The journal is now fully committed to regular publication twice yearly. It continues to expand its subscriber base across North America and indeed around the world, and is found in major ecclesiastical centers such as Rome, Kyiv and Constantinople, as well as distinguished universities and venues of academic research around the world.

Logos publishes primarily in English, but also features occasional articles and reviews in French and Ukrainian. In addition, major articles in English are followed by abstracts in Ukrainian summarizing the key points of the article. Articles in Ukrainian or French carry similar abstracts in English.

While Logos is a peer-reviewed academic journal, its interests and focus are not exclusively academic. It seeks to be accessible to, and relevant for, a generally educated audience of Eastern Christians and others involved or interested in the life and renewal of the Christian Churches.

One of the changes recently implemented in the journal is an expansion of the book review section. This expansion has allowed Logos to more than double the number of reviews as well as to add two new features: a "Briefly Noted" section and a "Books Received" section.

The newly expanded book review section is designed to take fuller account of the burgeoning number of publications on Eastern Christianity and to promote greater interest in a larger number of these new books. This expanded bibliographical section also allows readers to follow the expansion of library holdings in Eastern Christian Studies at St. Paul University's renowned Jean-Léon Allie Library, one of the best theological libraries in North America.

Subscription rates (two issues per year are: in Canada, $45; outside Canada, $40 - for airmail add $15.

For more information contact: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, St. Paul University, 223 Main St., Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4; 613-236-1393, ext. 2332; [email protected] or visit www.ustpaul.ca/sheptytsky.

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