Roman Soloviy
Rector
Dr. habil. in Theology
Main research interests: contemporary Protestant theology, continental philosophy of religion, theology of hospitality, and postmodern Christianity.
Scopus Author ID: 57219449607
Web of Science Researcher ID: AAV-7824-2020
In 1999, Roman Soloviy graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University with a degree in the History of Ukraine. In 2000, he earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies after defending his dissertation titled “Confessional and Cultural-Educational Activity of the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church in Western Ukraine (1925–1939).” On April 28, 2017, he defended his dissertation for the Doctor Habilitatus (Dr. Hab.) degree in Theology.
From 2015 to the present, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology.
Since 2017, he has been an active member of the Ukrainian Christian Academic Society (UCAS).
Since 2018, he has served as the Chief Editor of the Book Series Contemporary Protestant Theology (with Ukrainian publisher "Duh i Litera" (eng. Spirit and Letter)).
Since 2019, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians.
Since 2019 he has been a member of the editorial board of the scholarly religious studies journal Religious Freedom.
Since 2020, he has been the rector and leading research fellow at the Eastern European Institute of Theology.
Since 2021, he has served as Regional Editor for Eastern and Central Europe at Langham Publishing.
Since 2022, he has been a member of the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies.
Under Dr. Soloviy’s supervision, three Doctor Habilitatus dissertations in theology have been defended: Sergiy Sannikov, “The Phenomenon of Water Baptism in the Context of Modern Baptist Sacramentology” (2018); Mykhaylo Mokienko, “Pentecostalism: Features of Theological and Social Identification” (2018); Fedir Stryzachuk, “The Renaissance of the Doctrine of the Trinity in Contemporary Western Theology” (2020). In addition, two Ph.D. dissertations have been completed under his guidance: Anatoliy Denysenko, “Liberation Theology: A Critical Analysis” (2019); Pavlo Shevchuk, “The Political Theology of Radical Orthodoxy” (2020).
The Phenomenon of the Emerging Church in the Context of Theological and Ecclesiological Transformations in Contemporary Western Protestantism (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2016).
Encountering the Mystery: Essays in Honour of Sergii V. Sannikov on His 70th Birthday. Edited by O. Geychenko, T. Dyatlyk, M. Raiber, J. T. Searle, R. Soloviy (Rivne: “Format-A”, 2020).
Light in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Edited by Roman Soloviy (Carlisle: Langham Publishing, 2025).
Beatitudes and Terror: Ukrainian Theological Response to Russian Aggression.Edited by Olexandr Geychenko, Roman Soloviy, and Yevgeny Ustinovich (Carlisle: Langham Publishing, 2025).
Pastoral Ministry During Wartime: The Ukrainian Experience. Edited by Olexandr Geychenko, Taras Dyatlyk, and Roman Soloviy (Carlisle: Langham Publishing). Forthcoming.
Hospitable Faith, Hostile Politics? Evangelicalism in Central and Eastern Europe in Search of a New Political Discourse. Edited by Roman Soloviy and Ciprian Gheorghe-Luca (Carlisle: Langham Publishing). Forthcoming.
“Reception of Paul Ricœur's Ideas of ‘Hermeneutics of Suspicion’ in the Merold Westphal’s Philosophy of the Religion.” Sententiae 29 (2013): 91-100.
“John Caputo's Post-Metaphysical Theology of Event.” Skhid 136 (2015): 66-75.“The concept of ontotheology in Kant and Heidegger and the possibility of religion: contemporary protestant interpretation.” KazNU Bulletin. Philosophy series. Cultural science series. Political science series 55 (2016): 273-280.
“Virtue, character, and community: the peculiarities of theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas.” Актуальні проблеми філософії та соціології 10 (2016): 141-144.
“Western Protestantism in the Postmodern Context: Theological and Sociological Interpretations of the Emerging Church Movement.” Ukrainian Religious Studies. Current religious problems 77 (2016): 82-88.
“The Challenge of Postmodernism to Christian theology: Methodological and Radical Strategies of Engagement.” Theological Reflections. Special issue “Reformation: East-European Dimensions” (2016) 222-233.
“John Caputo’s Teopoetics and Theopolitics.” Scientific Yearbook of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.17, N. 3(2017): 7–21.
Християнська традиція у світлі пророчої філософії релігії. Meeting the Mystery: a Collection of Articles in Honor of the Seventieth Anniversary of S. Sannikov / за ред. О. Гейченко, Т. Дятлик, М. Рейбер, Дж. Т. Серль, Р. Соловій. Рівне, 2020. С. 174-185.
“‘Messianicity without Messianism’: to the Place of Religion in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida.” Changing Societies and Personalities. Vol. 4, No. 2 (2020):158–171.
“The Challenges of Radical Hospitality for Evangelical Public Theology: The Ukrainian Case.” International Journal of Public Theology. 14 (2020): 276-295.
“Pentecostalism in Western Ukraine: Historical Development and Current Theological Challenges.” Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe. Vol. 40: Iss. 7 (2020), Article 7.
“Християнське свідчення у світі постправди.” Богомыслие: литеатурно-богословский альманах. Vol. 29 (2021): 8-17.
“Bottom of the Well Theology: A Christian Perspective from Ukraine.” Cultivate. – Fall (2022):8-11.
“Faith and Fear in Fragments: A Year of Russian Aggression against Ukraine through the Eyes of a Ukrainian Theologian.” Acta Missiologiae, Vol. 10 (2022): 93:102.
“Theological Education in Wartime: Ukrainian Evangelical Seminaries as Communities of Compassion, Reflection, and Hope.” InSights Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023):3-20.
“Zwei Jahre russische Aggression gegen die Ukraine. Glaube und Angst in Fragmenten.” Deutsches Pfarrerblatt, Vol. 4. (2024):179-186.
“The Church Amidst the War of Attrition: Ukrainian Evangelical Community in Search of a New Mission Paradigm.” Religions, 15 (2024): 1136. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/rel15091136.
“Challenges for Discipleship in the Context of the War of Attrition: The Ukrainian Case.” European Journal of Theology 34, no. 1 (March 1, 2025): 124–50. https://doi.org/10.5117/EJT2025.1.007.SOLO.