The journal is a peer-reviewed publication registered with the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (certificate ПИ #ФС 77-75143 of 19.02.2019, ISSN 2410-0153). The journal’s circulation area is the Russian Federation. It is published four times a year (quarterly).

The main headings of the journal are:

• Theology. Religious Philosophy
• Church and History of Russia
• Orthodoxy and Russian Culture
• Orthodoxy and Russian Education
• Church and Modern Russia
• Life of a Theological School
• Our Authors

The editorial board welcomes representatives of different scientific and theological schools and directions, institutions of spiritual and secular education, culture, and public organizations to contribute to the journal.

1. The material submitted for publication must be written in Russian, be original, not published earlier in other printed editions.
2. The electronic version of the manuscript must be a document with the extension “.doc” or “.rtf” in the text editor Microsoft Word. The file name should contain the author’s surname, first name, patronymic name (if available).
3. Format – А4; margins – 2 cm on all sides; font type – Times New Roman; font size – 14; line spacing – 1.5; alignment to width; indentation – 1.25 cm.
4. Structure of the manuscript:

1. UDC index.
2. The author’s / authors’ initials and surname(s) – lowercase boldface (centred). The number of authors should not exceed three.
3. The title of the article – lowercase boldface (centred). The title should not exceed three lines.
4. The abstract should not exceed 7 lines.
5. Key words should include no more than 6 terms.
6. The body of the article should not contain redundant spaces, manual hyphenation, line breaks. The use of underlining and spacing is undesirable. Internal headings should be marked in bold and spaced apart 1 space. If additional typeface is used, its file should be submitted to the editorial office.
7. Reference data are given as a numbered list in alphabetical order after the title References (author, book title, place of publication, publisher, year, number of pages).
8. The name of the organization from which the manuscript comes.
9. UDC, article title, author’s / authors’ initials and surname, abstract and key words in English.

5. References in the text should be foot-noted.

6. References to the Scripture are given in parenthesis in a Western style (abbreviated title, chapter number, colon and verse number); for example (Matt. 11:12).

7. The recommended text of the manuscript should be no less than 8 pages and no more than 15 pages. Articles of a methodological nature may be up to 20 pages. The editorial board reserves the right to edit articles.

8. The information on the author(s) should be submitted together with the manuscript: surname, first name and patronymic name (if available), place of work and position, academic degree and title, telephone number, postal (with postcode) and e-mail addresses for correspondence.

9. The text of the article / report / review is provided in electronic form. Contacts of the editorial board:

Telephone no. 8 (8412) 20-95-05, 20-94-99; e-mail: science@seminariapenza.ru, editorial board of the journal “The Lord’s Field. Bulletin of Penza Theological Seminary” (Archpriest Vadim Ershov; 8-903-324-09-03)