SERAFIM SEPPäLä

Professor

Area: two millenia of thoughts and ideas of Eastern Christendom!

Research interests: Encounter of Islam and Christianity (600-800), Syriac mystical theology, Early Byzantine ascetic literature, Byzantine & Syriac liturgical commentaries, Mariology, Aesthetics & Angelology in early Byzantium, Non-dogmatic patristic topics from second to fourth century, idea of Jerusalem, Jewish angelology, Post-holocaust Jewish theology, Cultural heritage of the Armenian genocide, Rabbi Kook

Contact info

Organization

School of Theology, Orthodox Theology

Email

serafim.seppala@uef.fi

Phone

+358 50 346 7825

Keywords

aesthetics angelology Armenia Byzantium cinema genocide islam judaism mariology orthodoxy patristics Syria

Teaching Activities

Biblical Hebrew
Classical Syriac
Introduction to Early Christian literature
Concept of God in the East
Eastern Christianity, Judaism and Islam: Comparative perspectives
Genocide as theological question
Special courses in Systematic theology and patristics

Publications

Files

CV (Including relevant publications)