The Academy hosted a conference “Exegesis and Hermeneutics of Holy Scripture in the Light of Orthodox Tradition”

On November 13 and 14, 2024, the autumn session of the annual scientific and practical conference of the Biblical Studies Department “Exegesis and Hermeneutics of the Holy Scriptures” took place at the Moscow Theological Academy. On the first day of the conference there were lecturers both from religious and secular universities as well as independent researchers. On the second day, students’ reports were heard. Participants were representatives of the Moscow, Sretenskaya and Minsk Theological Academies, OCAD, Orthodox St. Tikhon's Humanitarian University, Saratov, Kolomna, Kaluga, Ekaterinodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Barnaul, Kazan, Don, Ekaterinburg, Perervinsk and Novosibirsk theological seminaries, the Moscow State University named after M .N. Lomonosov, the National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevskiy.

Archpriest Oleg Mumrikov, Head of the Biblical Studies Department of the Moscow Theological Academy, opened the conference and addressed the participants with a welcoming speech. He noted that 2024 is a 20th anniversary for the Biblical Studies Department.

The plenary session was opened by Archpriest Oleg Mumrikov’s report on “The Orthodox doctrine of creation and modern theology of evolution: is a dialogue possible?” The author stated as preliminary concepts that evolutionism today is one of the basic concepts of modern natural science. When it comes to theological understanding of a number of modern natural scientific issues, it faces the problem of natural evil, e. g. the possibility of men’s suffering and death. The patristic tradition notes the creation as a special state of the world, which was lost, while the science approaches it differently.

At the end of the plenary session, two sections started its work. The first one was held in the Great Hall of the Moscow Theological Academy, the second one at the Biblical Studies office.

Read more about the work of the sections at the website of the MThA Department of Biblical Studies