Christos Yannaras
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Η σύνδεση του αριστοτελισμού με την ορθόδοξη θεολογία είναι προϊόν της σύγχρονης νεοελληνικής ανάγκης να δομηθεί ένας «ελληνοχριστιανικός» λόγος που να γεφυρώνει ή, ακόμη καλύτερα, να εκμηδενίζει την απόσταση ανάμεσα στην «νεορθοδοξία»,... more
A book review about the relation between Orthodox theology and liberal democracy
The article by Father Juan-Miguel Garrigues, L'énergie divine et la grâce chez Maxime le Confesseur (published in the journal Istina, vol. 19, no. 3 [1974] pp. 272-296), is an interesting occasion for one to prove how critically important... more
Examining Christos Yannaras’ work has not been the easiest of tasks for non-Greek speaking researchers, mainly because of (a) the absence of translations for the whole spectrum of his contributions –most English translations are quite... more
This essay outlines the key stages in the study of Dionysius in twentieth-century Greek Orthodox theology and scholarship. After an introductory overview of this topic, the complexities of the Greek scene are presented since there is... more
The marginalization of divine being, who is the source of energies, makes Ioannis Zizioulas to actually ignore the divine energies in his Eucharistic and personalist theological vision. On the other hand, Christos Yannaras gives a certain... more
So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor. 13:13) Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he... more
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of the stages of development in modern Greek academic theology and the role of the Areopagitic writings in the construction of an orthodox "philosophical theology" within the modern Greek... more
Paper given at the "Ontogy and History" Conference in Delphi, May 2015.
Guest Lecture, Patriarchal Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy, 18 November 2019.
Antik geleneğe göre gladyatörler, yasal olarak ölümü hak etmiş görülen, hayatta kalma şansı tamamen arenadaki dövüş becerisine bağlı, dövüş zamanlarının dışında kendileri için hazırlanmış olan, oldukça sıkı ve bir o kadar da kötü... more
The article uses Eastern Orthodox thinker Christos Yannaras' conception of personhood as a theological criterion for examining the ethical use of new information technologies.
The essay deals with the development of personalist thought in the greek orthodox theology of the last century
Φιλοσοφεῖν: ἐπιστήμη, εὔνοια, παρρησία Ιανουάριος 2017 (15) 1 Βλ. Ν. Russell, «Christos Yannaras», Key Theological Thinkers: From Modern to Postmodern, edited by S.J. Kristiansen and S. Rise (Αldershot; Farnham, VT: Ashgate, 2013), 726 κ.... more
A revised and expanded version of a conference paper by the same name given at the University of Cambridge in 2017 and now published in the volume Polis, Ontology, Ecclesial Event: Engaging with Christos Yannaras' thought (James Clarke &... more
Eastern Orthodox political theology has not received sufficient attention by the largely Protestant- and Catholic-dominated field of political theology. One of the Orthodox world’s most important thinkers, Christos Yannaras, who has... more
Chapter 7 of Elements of Faith (T&T Clark: Edinburgh, 1991), pp. 53-88.
McLuhan's references to Eastern Christianity in The Medium and the Light reveal an ambivalence that raises challenging questions about both of them. If the Reformation was the product of the technology of print that undermined... more
Ο Μπαρούχ Σπινόζα και ο Χρήστος Γιανναράς, εκκινούν τη θεμελίωση της σκέψης τους, από την "Οντολογία της Σχέσης", της κίνησης και του γίγνεσθαι. Το "κακό" αναδύεται για τους δύο στοχαστές, μέσα στις ανθρώπινες σχέσεις, ως εκείνο το... more
The article, in Romanian, begins by highlighting some of the issues pertaining to modern anthropocentrism and secular naturalism, like the dissolution of the inner life and of society. It then explores the main elements of ecclesial... more
According to Ch. Yannaras it is necessary that the universal Church through a synod offer a renewed hermeneutics of the problem of evil, sin and fall, and consequently also of the reality of the angelic world, of hell and eternal... more
Ο Μπαρούχ Σπινόζα και ο Χρήστος Γιανναράς, εκκινούν από τη θεμελίωση της σκέψης τους, στην "Οντολογία της Σχέσης", της κίνησης και του γίγνεσθαι. Το "κακό" αναδύεται για τους δύο στοχαστές, μέσα στις ανθρώπινες σχέσεις, ως εκείνο το... more
In this article I am looking at the use and appropriation of language and style in Christos Yannaras' "Variations on the Song of Songs". Yannaras is one of the most prolific and influential theologians and philosophers in modern Greece.... more
This bipartite paper engages with the early development of the Christian philosopher, Christos Yannaras (1935- ), as outlined in Heidegger and the Areopagite (1967, rev. ed. 1988), focusing on the question of whether Yannaras’ reading of... more
An analysis of Yannaras' relational ontology and account of desire, read through Levinas and recent feminist accounts of vulnerability.
The critical ontology proposed by Christos Yannaras is not a new name for an old theory. Its author views it as a consistent attempt to transcend the limitations imposed by Kant upon metaphysics and to construct a comprehensive... more
The research studies the original and controversial reflection of the Metropolitan of Pergamon Ioannis Zizioulas (1931) on the ontological freedom of God, as the cause and cipher of His being, related to a personalist conception of the... more
Το βιβλίο αποτελείται από έξι κεφάλαια. Το Α΄ («Η θρησκευτικότητα») αναφέρεται στα ουσιώδη γνωρίσματα της θρησκείας ως πανανθρώπινου και διαχρονικού φαινομένου. Το Β΄ («Το εκκλησιαστικό γεγονός») επικεντρώνεται στη γένεση και την ουσία... more
When preparing my paper, originally I thought that I had two options; either to emulate the address of the German mathematician David Ηilbert to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, in which case I would have to... more