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Serafim Seppälä

Serafim Seppälä

Professor

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

School of Theology, Philosophical Faculty

[email protected] | +358 50 346 7825

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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

Latest research:

  • Religion and Spirituality in the Memoirs of Child Survivors of the Armenian Genocide (International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 2025)
  • Animals as αλόγα: A Critical Appraisal of a Murky Concept (Ortodoksia, 2025)
  • Two brides in dispute: the Synagogue and the Church in Syriac Dialogue Poems (Brill 2025)
  • Parables in Ephrem the Syrian’s Commentary on Diatessaron (MohrSiebeck 2025).

 

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

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