Orthodox Anthropology in Contemporary Missionary Dialogue: Burnt Offering, Cremation and Ecotheology

1. Fire from an Old Testament perspective; 2. Christian cremation and martyrdom; 3. The value of the body in Orthodoxy; 4. The practice of cremation and non-Christian occult organizations; the pro-cremation position; 5. The Roman Catholic Church's current position on cremation; 6. The current position of the local Orthodox Churches regarding cremation; 7. Cremation in the interwar and communist periods; 8. The practice of incineration in the post-December period; 9. The desacralization of nature; 10. Ecology, mission and the 21st century's challenges; 11. The environmental subject as an existential problem; 12. Patriarch Bartholomew's vision of ecotheology.

Ability of applying the principles for understanding a missiological document in an appropriate manner, respectively, to take into account all elements involved (linguistic, socio-cultural, religious), and interpret both in a synchronous and diachronic mode; critical reading skills on bibliographic sources and ability to initiate own research.