A Communion in Faith and Love Doxa & Praxis Exploring Orthodox Theology PANTELIS KALAITZIDIS, series editor In light of the current challenges faced by global Christianity, Doxa & Praxis, a collaborative effort of the Volos Academy and WCC Publica- tions, invites creative and original reflection that reappraises, reappro- priates, and further develops the riches of Orthodox thought for a deep renewal of Orthodox Christianity and for the benefit of the whole oikoumene. Board of Editorial Consultants Metropolitan of Pergamon JOHN ZIZIOULAS, Ecumenical Patriarchate Metropolitan of Mount-Lebanon GEORGES KHODR, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch Rev Dr EMMANUEL CLAPSIS, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston Dr TAMARA GRDZELIDZE, Ambassador of the Republic of Georgia at Vatican City, Former Program Executive, Faith and Order, WCC Dr ALEXEI BODROV, Rector, St Andrews Biblical Theological Institute, Moscow Dr ANGELIKI ZIAKA, Assistant Professor at the School of Theology, Thessaloniki University Dr PETER BOUTENEFF, Associate Professor, St Vladimir’s Theological Seminary, New York Dr RADU PREDA, Associate Professor of Cluj-Napoca University, Direc- tor of the Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter-Confes- sional, Inter-Religious Studies (INTER) Dr JULIJA VIDOVIC, Member of the Central Committee of the Confer- ence of European Churches (Orthodox Serbian Church) AIKATERINI PEKRIDOU, MTh, Research Associate, Institute for Missiol- ogy and the Study of Theologies beyond Europe, Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Münster, and the Academy for Theolog- ical Studies, Volos A Communion in Faith and Love Elisabeth Behr-Sigel’s Ecclesiology Edited by SARAH HINLICKY WILSON and AIKATERINI PEKRIDOU A COMMUNION IN FAITH AND LOVE Elisabeth Behr-Sigel’s Ecclesiology Doxa & Praxis series Copyright © 2017 WCC Publications. 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Typesetting: Costis Drygianakis, Volos Academy for Τheological Studies Cover: Adele Robey, Phoenix Graphics ISBN: 978-2-8254-1688-4 World Council of Churches 150, route de Ferney, P.O. Box 2100 CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland http://publications.oikoumene.org C O N T E N T S Contributors vii Foreword xi AIKATERINI PEKRIDOU Introduction 1 SARAH HINLICKY WILSON Chapter 1 – Behr-Sigel’s Theological Education 12 and Ministry in Strasbourg ELISABETH PARMENTIER Chapter 2 – The War Years in Nancy: 27 Behr-Sigel’s Theology in Action OLGA LOSSKY Chapter 3 – The Religious Thought of Alexander Bukharev 37 (1824-1871) and Elisabeth Behr-Sigel MICHEL EVDOKIMOV Chapter 4 – Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Celia Deane-Drummond, 43 and Sophiology ANTOINE ARJAKOVSKY Chapter 5 – According to the Whole: 50 Behr-Sigel’s Ecclesiological Vision TEVA REGULE Chapter 6 – Patristic Gender Anthropology in Behr-Sigel 68 VALERIE A. KARRAS Chapter 7 –The Hands of a Woman: 86 Person, Image, and Ordination MARIA MCDOWELL Chapter 8 – The Living Faith: 113 Behr-Sigel Reading the Signs of Our Times AMAL DIBO Chapter 9 – Risk-Takers in a World That Cries for Salvation: 127 Behr-Sigel on Suffering and Kenosis HELEEN ZORGDRAGER Chapter 10 – Behr-Sigel’s New Hagiography 140 and Its Ecumenical Significance SARAH HINLICKY WILSON Chapter 11 – Juliana Lazarevskaya: 158 A Lay Saint at the Dawn of Modern Times ELISABETH BEHR-SIGEL C O N T R I B U T O R S ANTOINE ARJAKOVSKY is Director of Research at the College des Bernardins, Paris. For nearly two decades he lived in Russia and Ukraine, where he directed the French University College of Moscow, the French Institute of Ukraine at Kiev, and the Institute of Ecumeni- cal Studies at Lviv, Ukraine. In recent years he has published Russie- Ukraine, de la guerre à la paix? (Parole et Silence, 2014) and The Way: Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Jour- nal, 1925–1940 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013). AMAL DIBO served as an expert in three United Nations agen- cies – UNICEF, ILO, and ESCWA – in emergency operations, devel- opment, combating child labor, and integrating women in the world of work, mainly in the Arab countries of Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Jor- dan, Syria, and the Sudan from 1980 to 1998. She was a co-founder of the Non-Violence Movement in Lebanon in 1986. Since 1998 she has taught Cultural Studies at the American University of Beirut in the Civilization Sequence program. She has participated in and organized many conferences about Behr-Sigel and is presently preparing a book on Behr-Sigel in Arabic. MICHEL EVDOKIMOV was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Poitiers for nearly 30 years, and for 25 years served as the national delegate of the Orthodox Church in France for ecumenical and inter-religious relations. Ordained in 1979, he found- ed French-speaking Orthodox parishes in Châtenay-Malabry and Poi- tiers. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Pèlerins russes et vagabonds mystiques (Cerf, 2004) and Le Christ dans la tradi- tion et la littérature russes (Desclée-Mame, 2007), and has translated books by Metropolitan Antony Bloom and Father Alexander Men. VALERIE A. KARRAS has been a Professor of Historical Theolo- gy and Church History for over 20 years, having served on the facul- ties of Southern Methodist University, St Louis University, Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, and St James of Jerusalem School of Theology. She has co-edited with Perry VIII | CONTRIBUTORS Hamalis a collected volume of Orthodox perspectives on war, which will be released by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2017. Her first book, Women in the Byzantine Liturgy, will be published by Ox- ford University Press. OLGA LOSSKY holds a degree in literature and works as a pub- lisher, managing various kinds of projects. She wrote the biography of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, Vers le jour sans déclin: Une vie d’Elisabeth Behr- Sigel (Cerf, 2007), which has also been translated into English as To- ward the Endless Day: The Life of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). She has also written and published three novels: Requiem pour un clou (Gallimard, 2004), La révolution des ci- erges (Gallimard, 2010), and La Maison Zeidawi (Denoël, 2014). MARIA MCDOWELL holds a doctorate in Theological Ethics from Boston College, where she wrote her dissertation on “The Joy of Embodied Virtue: Toward the Ordination of Women to the Eastern Orthodox Priesthood.” She has presented papers at the Huffington Ecumenical Institute, the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Ameri- can Academy of Religion, and publishes in a variety of academic jour- nals. She blogs on theological and pastoral issues at deiprofundis.org and is a regular contributor at womenintheology.org. ELISABETH PARMENTIER is a Lutheran pastor and Professor of Practical Theology at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Ge- neva. In addition, she serves as Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg. She is the editor and co-author of a number of books, including most recently Croire hors les murs (Lit Verlag, 2014), La passion de la grace (Labor et Fides, 2014), and Marthe et Marie en concurrence? Des Pères de l’Eglise aux commen- taires feminists (Mediaspaul Canada, 2012). AIKATERINI PEKRIDOU is a member of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies. She works as Research Associate and Project Co- ordinator at the Institute for Missiology and the Study of Theologies beyond Europe in the Catholic Theological Faculty of Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster while completing her doctoral de- gree at the Irish School of Ecumenics of Trinity College, Dublin. She CONTRIBUTORS | IX has worked with the Faith and Order Commission and served on the Churches in Dialogue Commission of the Conference of European Churches and the Dublin Council of Churches. Her research interests lie in the areas of ecumenical ecclesiology, missiology, ecumenical theological education, and disability and the church. TEVA REGULE holds a Master of Divinity degree from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and is currently pursuing a doctorate in liturgical theology at Boston College. For over 15 years she served as managing editor of the St. Nina Quarterly, a publication dedicated to exploring the ministry of women in the Orthodox Church, and has served as an Orthodox consultant for a number of consultations sponsored by the World Council of Churches. SARAH HINLICKY WILSON is a Lutheran pastor, Adjunct Profes- sor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, and editor of the quarterly theological journal Lutheran Forum. She is co-editor of the volume Discerning the Signs of the Times: The Vision of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001) and au- thor of Woman, Women, and the Priesthood in the Trinitarian Theolo- gy of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (T & T Clark, 2013). She has published more than a hundred articles on theological topics in both popular and scholarly venues. HELEEN ZORGDRAGER is Professor of Systematic Theology and Gender Studies at the Protestant Theological University in Amster- dam. Ordained in 1991, she was from 2005 to 2010 program manager in service of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands for missional cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe.