Cultural Practices

“Theologians” – is a series shot in the summer camp of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University’s Theological faculty in July 2021. Its participants are mainly – the undergraduate, postgraduate students and professors. It’s situated near St. John the Theologian’s monastery in Ryazan region. Here students of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University’s Theological faculty get to know each other in a new way, become a single community. The camp combines the theory and practice of theology: lectures and classes are combined with constant prayer, confession and liturgy. Apparently, it’s an artistic license to call all the camp’s participants – “the theologians”. In the Orthodox tradition there has only been three people who awarded the title of “the Theologian”: the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, Gregory the Theologian and Symeon the New Theologian, let alone the ordinary students. In this project – it’s the spirit of the youth’s romance that matters, – the desire to delve into the ancient texts and the audacity to speak on the most important and mysterious – on God and the divine world-order.