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      Orthodox TheologyJohn ZizioulasChristologyTrinitarian Theology
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      Orthodox TheologyReligious PluralismJohn ZizioulasOrthodox Christianity
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
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      AristotleÉmmanuel LévinasByzantine StudiesModern Greek History
A book review about the relation between Orthodox theology and liberal democracy
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      Postcolonial StudiesLiberalismRadical Orthodoxy (Theology)Orthodox Theology
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      Orthodox TheologyChristologyChristos Yannaras
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      PhilosophyOntologyEpistemologyApophaticism
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
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      OntologyOrthodox TheologyChristos YannarasEssence Energies Distinction
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
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      PhilosophyOntologyEpistemologyOrthodox Theology
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      GnosticismLogicAtheismAristotle
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
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      Late Antique and Byzantine StudiesChristian MysticismHermeneuticsOrthodox Theology
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
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      PersonhoodJohn ZizioulasGregory PalamasChristos Yannaras
Cover, contents, editor's introduction, translator's note, author's preface and first chapter. The book will soon be available as a free downloadable eBook and print on demand paperback from Winchester University Press.
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      MetaphysicsOntologyEpistemologyLanguages and Linguistics
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
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      Russian StudiesGreek HistoryOrthodox TheologyRussian Orthodox Church
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      PhilosophyOrthodox TheologyMartin HeideggerJohn Zizioulas
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      PersonhoodApophaticismOthernessGregory Palamas
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
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      OntologyHagiographyPhilosophical TheologyOrthodox Theology
Paper given  at the "Ontogy and History" Conference in Delphi, May 2015.
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      John ZizioulasOrigenMaximus the ConfessorChristos Yannaras
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      EpistemologyAtheismPhenomenologyRadical Orthodoxy (Theology)
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      Doctrine of the TrinityChristos YannarasVladimir LosskyEastern Orthodoxy
Guest Lecture, Patriarchal Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy, 18 November 2019.
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      Orthodox TheologyJohn ZizioulasModern Greek TheologyModern Theology
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      TechnologyPhilosophical TheologyEastern ChristianityHellenism
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
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The article uses Eastern Orthodox thinker Christos Yannaras' conception of personhood as a theological criterion for examining the ethical use of new information technologies.
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      Information TechnologyEthicsTheologyChristos Yannaras
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      PhilosophyTheologyOrthodox TheologyJohn Zizioulas
The essay deals with the development of personalist thought in the greek orthodox theology of the last century
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      John ZizioulasChristos Yannaras
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
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      HagiographyDeconstructionContinental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy)Orthodox Theology
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
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      Political TheoryModern Greek HistoryModern Greek PoliticsPolitical Theology
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
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      Orthodox TheologyPersonhoodPolitical TheologyTrinity (Theology)
Christos Yannaras (born 1935 in Athens, Greece) has been proclaimed 'without doubt the most important living Greek Orthodox theologian' (Andrew Louth), 'contemporary Greece's greatest thinker' (Olivier Cl ment), 'one of the most... more
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      PhilosophyTheologyPolitical ScienceOrthodox Theology
Chapter 7 of Elements of Faith (T&T Clark: Edinburgh, 1991), pp. 53-88.
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      Orthodox TheologyChristos Yannaras
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
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      Media and Cultural StudiesMedia EcologyEastern ChristianityHistory of Roman Catholicism
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      Orthodox TheologyOrthodox ChristianityModern Greek TheologyGreek Orthodoxy
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
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      Christos YannarasΠολιτική φιλοσοφίαΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΗΘΙΚΗ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑΣπινόζα
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
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      AnthropologyJohn ZizioulasCultural AnthropologyChristos Yannaras
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
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      Orthodox TheologyChristos YannarasProtology
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
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      Benedict de SpinozaSpinozaChristos YannarasΠολιτική φιλοσοφία
Greek translation of Polis, Ontology, Ecclesial Event: Engaging with Christos Yannaras’ Thought ed. Sotiris Mitralexis Cambridge: James Clarke & Co, 2018 Ακαδημαϊκή επιμέλεια: Σωτήρης Μητραλέξης Μετάφραση: Γιάννης Πεδιώτης και οι... more
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Christos Yannaras is one of the most significant Orthodox theologians of recent times. His work engages not only with issues of philosophy and theology, but also takes in wider questions of culture and politics. With contributions from... more
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      PatristicsOrthodox TheologyTheological AnthropologyTheology and Culture
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
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      Christos YannarasGreek TheologyThe Song of SongsTheology and Poetry
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
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      HagiographyPhilosophical TheologyDeconstructionOrthodox Theology
An analysis of Yannaras' relational ontology and account of desire, read through Levinas and recent feminist accounts of vulnerability.
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      OntologyPhilosophy Of ReligionÉmmanuel LévinasDesire
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
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      OntologyEpistemologyRelationalismChristos Yannaras
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      Political PhilosophyPhilosophy Of LawChristos Yannaras
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
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      OntologyTheologySystematic TheologyJohn Zizioulas
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
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      Philosophy Of ReligionChristos Yannaras
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
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      MissiologyChristian Orthodoxy and NationalismModern Greek TheologyChristos Yannaras
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      Sociology of ReligionOrthodox TheologyPolitical TheologyReligious Studies
This book explores the relationship between being and time —between ontology and history— in the context of both Christian theology and philosophical inquiry. Each chapter tests the limits of this multifaceted thematic vis-à-vis a wide... more
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      MetaphysicsOntologyOrthodox TheologyMartin Heidegger