Syndoxia: A Journal of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christian Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to scholarship on the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox traditions, both in their distinct expressions and at their points of encounter.
The journal's name is a nominal coinage from the Greek σύν ("together with") and δόξα ("glory"), reflecting a commitment to recovering and articulating the shared theological inheritance of the two communions. Syndoxia seeks to provide a serious scholarly venue for the full range of disciplines that constitute Orthodox Christian studies — patristics, theology, liturgics, history, ecclesiology, hagiography, ecumenical dialogue, and more — and to gather these contributions across the boundary that has historically separated the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox communions.
A Multi-Genre Scholarly Journal
Syndoxia publishes scholarly contributions, creative work, lived testimony, and community recommendations in a range of forms. Beyond traditional research articles, the journal welcomes scholarly essays, primary source editions and translations, book reviews, ecumenical exchanges between scholars of the two communions, theological reflection from clergy and monastics, contributions from emerging scholars and laypeople, accounts of cross-traditional encounter, original poetry and creative work, and resources for the broader Orthodox community.
The journal is committed to scholarship that is theologically and doctrinally consonant with the apostolic faith as received by the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox communions, while engaging rigorously with historical, philological, and comparative methods. We welcome contributions from scholars of any background.
Diamond Open Access
Syndoxia is fully open access. All published content is freely available immediately upon publication, without subscription, paywall, or registration requirement. The journal does not charge submission fees, article processing charges, or any other costs. Readers and authors alike pay nothing.
Get Involved
The journal welcomes engagement at every level:
- Authors are invited to submit original work across our fifteen sections. Please consult our Submission Guidelines and Aims and Scope before submitting.
- Reviewers who would like to be added to our network of peer reviewers are warmly invited to write to editorial@syndoxia.org with a brief note about their areas of expertise.
- Editorial Board members — we are actively constituting our editorial and advisory boards. Inquiries from established scholars in Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox studies are welcome.
- Readers are invited to register with the journal for updates on new issues, announcements, and calls for contributions.
For all editorial inquiries, please write to editorial@syndoxia.org. For general inquiries, please write to info@syndoxia.org.
