Faculty Role: Senior Lecturer
EuNC Learning Centres involved in: Digital Campus, Russian speaking Learning Centres

• Theology, Tradition and Identity

Education:

• MA in Theology, PhD in Theology (Manchester University)

Publications:

• A book: The Ecclesiology of St. Basil the Great: A Trinitarian Approach to the Life of the Church, Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2016.
• An article: A NOTION OF RECONCILIATION IN THE 4TH CENTURY CHRISTIAN CAPPADOCIA:CONSIDERING ST BASILÕS APPROACH TO THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH, Didache: Faithful Teaching 16:1 (Summer 2016)
• An article: RESPONSE TO JORGE JULCA AND GIFT MTUKWA Didache: Faithful Teaching17:2 (Winter 2018)
• A chapter in a book: "WHY DIALOGUE WITH THE PAST? A Russian Understanding of Holiness" in Why Holiness? Editor Carla Sunberg. Published in 2019

Biography:

In 1986 Olga graduated from Volgograd State University with an MA in Science. Later in life she became a minister for the Church of the Nazarene, ordained in 2009, and for several years she served in the Volgograd region as a deacon. In 2005, she received her BA in Religion from European Nazarene College, and in 2006 she completed an MA in Theology at Nazarene Theological College. As partial fulfillment of the university requirements she submitted a dissertation entitled: 'Deification of Community: Life in the Christian Community as a Way of Salvation in I John'.

Completing her Ph.D. in 2015, she now lives in Belgrade, Serbia, serving as a missionary/church planter in this pioneer area. In addition, she works as a Senior Lecturer and a Cluster Chair of Theology Cluster for European Nazarene College. Her NTC thesis was published by Pickwick as 'The Ecclesiology of St. Basil the Great: A Trinitarian Approach to the Life of the Church'.