About Journal
"Theological Bulletin" is an all-departmental Journal of the Moscow Theological Academy, a periodical specialising in the publication of scientific research in three specialities:
VAK specialties:
- 5.11 - theology;
- 5.7.9 - philosophy of religion and religious studies;
- 5.9.7 - Classical, Byzantine and New Greek philology.
ISSN - 2500-1450
Alternative title in English is Theological Bulletin.
Abbreviated name - ThB. Scientific journal of the Moscow Theological Academy.
Frequency/Schedule of publication - 4 times a year / No. 1 - 15 March; No. 2 - 15 June; No. 3 - 15 September; No. 4 - 15 December.
E-mail of Editorial Board - vestnik@mpda.ru
Founder and publisher - Religious organization - Spiritual Educational Institution of Higher Education "Moscow Theological Academy of Russian Orthodox Church", Sergiev Posad.
History of the Journal
The Journal is published by Moscow Theological Academy since 1892, with a break in 1919-1992. The publication resumed in 1993, when the first occasional issues began to appear. Since 2016, the Theological Bulletin has been published on a permanent basis, with four issues a year.
It publishes materials on a wide range of issues in Theology and Philosophy, Religious Studies, the History of the Christian Church, Patrology, Liturgics, Philology and Church Art. Each issue contains reviews of the latest scholarly literature published in Russia and abroad.
The Journal is published four times a year on a total volume of 40 to 80 author's sheets (600 to 1200 pages).
"The Theological Bulletin is included in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). The articles of the journal are counted in the authors' ranking as publications in a peer-reviewed journal with a non-zero impact factor.
All publications of the journal since 1993 are indexed in RSCI and available for free downloading in pdf format on the site of Scientific electronic library following the link: eLIBRARY.RU.
We will be glad to see your researches, articles and publications on the pages of our all-academic edition.
SECTIONS OF THE JOURNAL:
- Hagiography
- Apologetics
- Archival Materials
- Asceticism
- Biblical studies
- Theology and philosophy
- Homiletics
- Church history
- History of Russian Church: the most modern period
- History of the Russian Orthodox Church: prerevolutional period
- History of Western Confessions
- Churchwide history
- Source Study
- Canonical Low
- Liturgics
- Conference proceedings
- Moral theology
- Pastorology
- Patrology
- Translations of the Holy Fathers
- Religious Studies
- Reviews
- Sectology
- Comparative theology
- Philology
- Classical philology
- Arabic philology
- Russian spiritual literature
- Church Art
- Timeline
- Eschatology
- Viri docti