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Pauliina Pylvänäinen

At Insitutum Patristicum Augustinianum

Personal information

Born: 1985
Spouse: Juho, M. Sc., MSc Techn

Research interests and projects

Early Christian church orders, esp. the Apostolic Constitutions
Deacons in the Early Church
The cross-cultural context of the Apostolic Constitutions

Some publications

More Than Serving: The Tasks of Female Deacons in The Apostolic Constitutions and The Letters to Olympias. – Phronema 33. 73–90.
Deacons as Agents in Early Christian Charity. – Diaconia Christi 53. 167 –170.
Agents in Liturgy, Charity and Communication. The Tasks of Female Deacons in the Apostolic Constitutions. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Diss. Joensuu. September 2017.

Vartioi ja tee tilaa: Antoiko Apostoliset konstituutiot naisdiakoneille liturgisen roolin? - Studia Patristica Fennica 6. 39–53.

Varhaiskristilliset diakonit kohtasivat erilaisia vakaumuksia. Diakonia 4/2017. 28-29.
Nainen kleeroksessa? Writing in Diakonian tutkimus 1/13. 66-75.

Nainen kleeroksessa? Naisdiakonin asema seurakunnassa Kahdentoista apostolin konstituutio -kirkkojärjestyksessä. Master's thesis, UEF, 2011.

Education and degrees

Doctor of Theology, University of Eastern Finland, 2017

Master of Theology, University of Eastern Finland, 2011
- Systematic theology (Western)
- Studies in Psychology and Philosophy
- Teacher's pedagogical studies

Matriculation Examination, Reisjärvi high school, 2004

Professional appointments

University of Eastern Finland

Junior researcher, April 2014 - March 2017

Grant Researcher

Grant awarded by The Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 10 months (part-time), 2019
Grant awarded by Church Research Institute, 9 months, 2017
Grant awarded by University of Eastern Finland, Philosophical Faculty, 4 months, 2013
Grant awarded by Finnish Concordia Fund, 3 months, 2013

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

Theologian in youth work, Reisjärvi parish, 2011-2013

Municipality of Reisjärvi

Subject teacher (Religion and Psychology) in Reisjärvi high school, 2011-2013

Conference Presentations

”Teidän Aaroninne ja Mooseksenne”, Piispan ja diakonin vanhatestamentillinen analogia Apostolisissa konstituutioissa. - Patristinen päivä, November 2020, Helsinki
”Imitators of Christ. The Parallel Functions of Deacons and Christ in the Apostolic Constitutions 3, 19.” - What did deacons do? symposium, May 2020, online.
Agents in Liturgy, Charity and Communication. The Function of Deaconesses in the Apostolic Constitutions - XVII Conference on Patristic Studies, August 2019, Oxford, UK.
Teologian väitöskirja naisdiakonien roolista varhaisessa kirkossa - Diakonian tutkimuksen päivä, November 2017, Helsinki.
Women in the Apostolic Constitutions - Lecture in Summer Patristics Study Program organized by Pappas Patristic Institute, July 2017, Brookline, MA, USA.
Riveiltä ja niiden välistä. Varhaiskristillistä kirkkojärjestystä tulkitsemassa - Ortodoksisuuden tutkijana -symposium, April 2017, Joensuu.
Charitable Service? The Tasks of the Female Deacons in the Apostolic Constitutions - St Andrew's Patristic Symposium, September 2016, Sydney, Australia.
"Diakonia" of the Early Christian Female Deacons - The Sixth Biennial ReDi Conference, September 2016, Helsinki.
A Common Purpose for Paul and the Female Deacons? - The Sixth British Patristics Conference, September 2016, Birmingham, UK.
Onko naisdiakoneilla liturgisia tehtäviä Apostolisissa konstituutioissa? - Symposium Patristicum Fennicum Quartum, May 2016, Helsinki.
Diakonissojen tehtävät Apostolisissa konstituutioissa. Deaconesses' Tasks in the Apostolic Constitutions - What Did Deacons Do? International Theological Seminar on diakonia, September 2015, Joensuu.
A Non-Mainstream Perpective to the Research of the Canon Law - Religion in a Global Age. The Annual Symposium of the Finnish Doctoral Programme of Theology, September 2015, Helsinki.
Searching for the Roots of the Apostolic Constitutions - Otherness and Difference Challenge Theology. The Annual Symposium of the Finnish Doctoral Programme of Theology, October 2014, Turku.
Tutkimusprosessin käynnistämisen paradokseja - Diakonian tutkimuksen päivä, November 2013, Helsinki.
Apostoliset konstituutiot ja diakonia - Diakonian tutkimuksen päivä, November 2011, Helsinki.