Three highlights of this year remain in my mind:

– the visit to Oxford in February, with memorable lectures in St Benet’s Hall and C.S. Lewis Society

– the trip with seven doctoral students and post-docs to Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Leuven in June, with lots of fascinating seminars and sightseeings

– the decision of the Academy of Finland to establish a Centre of Excellence “Reason and Religious Recognition” under my direction, operating from 2014 to 2019

I have met so many interesting people and gained so many intellectual insights that I feel myself deeply privileged. I now wish everybody a peaceful Christmas and a Good New Year!

I have now updated most of my raw material regarding publications, Luther studies and Lutheran-Orthodox site until 2013. Some interpretative items are still missing, e.g. a brief description of ongoing L-O dialogues (but the basic data about them has been added until this day). Most of the fulltexts to TUHAT have been added, some of them (dating from 2011, 2012) will have their embargo lifted on January 1, 2014. I welcome all kinds of suggestions, please communicate them primarily to my Helsinki email account.