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 Permit me
to take but a moment of your time to introduce or re-introduce a
journal that may be of interest to you in your ongoing research and
publication thereof.
For over half a
century, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies has
been published in North America as a tri-lingual academic revue. Now
the flagship journal of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute
of Eastern Christian Studies at Saint Paul University, Ottawa,
Logos is devoted to all aspects of Eastern Christian studies,
emphasizing both Orthodox and Catholic Eastern Churches, with a
special, but not exclusive, interest in the Churches of Ukraine. The
journal publishes articles of original scholarship and book reviews
together with occasional historical documents. All the contents
pertain to the theological (especially patristic), spiritual,
liturgical, and canonical life of the Christian East in its
Catholic, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and related manifestations.
The journal is also very interested in ecumenical relations not only
among Eastern Christians but between and among Christians of Western
traditions also.
Logos is a
refereed journal, and abstracted in Religion Index One. The
Logos editorial board includes internationally renowned
specialists in Eastern Christian studies.
In 2005, the journal
underwent a period of extensive revision and has emerged in a much
stronger form, fully committed to regular publication twice yearly
on a fixed schedule. It continues to expand its subscriber base
across North America and indeed around the world, and is found in
major ecclesiastical centers such as Rome, Kiev and Constantinople
as well as distinguished universities and places of academic
research around the world. Ongoing promotion this year intends to
aggressively expand the subscriber base in both institutional and
individual forms.
In your own
research and writing, please bear Logos in mind as a place
for possible publication, both of full articles as well as shorter
essays, lectures, and comments. For details on deadlines, style, and
submissions, please see our Logos
Style Guide.
In addition, if your
library does not carry our journal, please refer them to our website
for details on how they may either subscribe or else arrange with us
for an “academic exchange” where possible. If you yourself wish to
subscribe, please return the enclosed form to us.
Finally, you will
note that one of the changes recently implemented in the journal was
an expansion of the book review section. This expansion has allowed
us to more than double the number of reviews we run as well as add
two new features: a “Briefly Noted” section and a “Books Received”
section.
The “Briefly Noted”
section will contain short reviews (c. 400 words) of books for
which, for a variety of reasons, it may not be possible to run
longer reviews but which are still deserving of notice. The “Books
Received” section will be a compiled list of all
the books received by Logos in the period between issues of
the journal, books for which we will not run regular reviews.
We wish to draw your
attention to the our policy whereby if books are sent, either by
authors themselves or their publishers, to Logos, and if
those books fall within the focus of the journal, we will, at a
minimum, advertise them for free in our “Books Received” list but,
wherever possible, will find a specialist in the field to write a
review of the book, which review we will then publish. Our newly
expanded book review section, then, is designed to take fuller
account of the burgeoning number of publications in the fields which
are of concern to our readers, and to promote greater interest in a
larger number of those books. This section should therefore be of
significant interest to publishers such as yourself, and of equal
interest, we trust hopefully, to our many readers.
Thank you for your
time and consideration, and we look forward to hearing from you in
due course.
Yours faithfully,
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky,
Editor-in-chief
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