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Audiocassettes are available from the 4-5 October 1996 meeting of the Society for the Study of Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism featuring Dr. Thomas Oden and Fr. Stanley Harakas.

• "Doing Theology:  An Historical Overview of Orthodox and Evangelical Approaches"  ($8).  Fr. Harakas describes the Orthodox theological method as a mosaic of different resources:  the Scriptures, the liturgy, the theological affirmations, etc:  "No one image can tell the whole story."

    Dr. Oden develops some of his thoughts on the "consensual approach to truth" that is built on the Fathers of the early centuries of the church.
• "Theological Method in the 1990s" ($8).  Dr. Oden feels that a recovery of the texts of early Christianity as a shared tradition is crucial to theological method and dialogue.  He describes some of his efforts to publish a series of ancient Christian commentaries on the Scriptures.  Fr. Harakas describes the recovery of a genuinely Orthodox theological method that has taken place through the work of scholars like Fr. Georges Florovsky and Fr. John Romanides.  Above all, he argues, the recovery of a holistic approach is necessary, as opposed to the reductionism of those who try to extract one part of the "grand mosaic" and consider it to be the core.
• "Orthodox and Evangelical Methods in Dialogue" ($8).
• Dr. Bradley Nassif, "A Global Perspective on Orthodox-Evangelical Relations" ($4).  Dr. Nassif provides an overview of organizations and individuals that are helping Orthodox and Evangelicals understand each other, including a report on his trip to Cairo, Egypt, for a World Council of Churches consultation on Orthodoxy and Western proselytism.
• Complete set ($25).

The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, an academic center for Eastern-Rite Catholic studies, announces the availability of new videos:

• "The Catholic Church in Ukraine:  A Documentary for School Children," narrated by Fr. Peter Galadza, provides "an introduction to the martyrdom and resurrection of the Greco-Catholics of the Church of Kyiv"  (17 minutes, NTSC, $12).
• "The Iconography of Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Church in Chicago" offers "a theological commentary by Fr. Andriy Chirovsky on the iconographic program of a properly decorated Byzantine Church."  Available in English and Ukrainian (45 minutes, NTSC, $25).
• For a description of the Institute's six-hour video, "To Write an Icon" ($100), see the East-West Church & Ministry Report 2 (Summer 1994), 14.

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New titles in East European languages published by Operation Mobilization's Greater Europe team based in Austria include Larry Burkett, How to Manage Your Money (Bulgarian);  Tony Evans, Guiding Your Family in a Misguided World (Russian; Ukrainian forthcoming); Tony Evans, Gambling and the Lottery (forthcoming in Russian and Bulgarian); Doris Van Stone, Dorie, the Girl Nobody Loved (Romanian and Ukrainian; forthcoming in Russian  and Czech); Neil Anderson, Victory Over the Darkness (Romanian and Bulgarian); Josh McDowell, The Deceivers (Albanian and Russian; forthcoming in Ukrainian);  Navigators, How to Lead Small Group Bible Studies (Albanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian); and Patrick Johnstone, Operation World (Russian).

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© 1997 Institute for East-West Christian Studies
ISSN 1069-5664