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Academy of Theological Studies 2000 - 2001, "Church and Eschatology" 2001 - 2002, "Orthodoxy and Modernity" 2002 - 2003, "Gender and Religion. The place of women in
Church" 2003 - 2004, "Orthodoxy and Multiculturalism" 2004 - 2005, The participation of laity in the life of Church Review
of Activities November 2000 - September
2005 At the end of the academic year 2004-2005 the Winter Program of the Academy of Theological Studies completes five years of activities. The program was established by his Eminence Metropolitan of Demetrias Ignatius, with the aim to nurture theological self-consciousness in the area of the wider pastoral work. The coordinator of the program is Pantelis Kalaitzidis. The Academy functions as an Open University. It consists of a series of meetings and presentations within each speakers present and discuss multitasked aspects of the year’s theme. The winter program is hosted at the FORUM Council Center (Deligiorgi 9-Polimeri Street) and the entrance is free for the public. A series of parallel events accompanies the winter program.
The chosen subject’s goal is the consciousness of emerge problems for the Church and the theology, the productive questioning and the liberated and the open-minded argumentation, with sentiment of responsibility, as an opening to the future. These four years, the Academy of Theological Studies operated as a pole for contacting of the local community of Volos with people from all over Greece, theologians and not theologians, as the Metropolis of Demetrias offered pleasantly hospitality.
ü The theme of the Academic Year 2000-2001 was Church and Eschatology The program was as follows: Sunday November 11th 2000 Petros Vasiliadis, Ph.d, Professor, Aristotle
University of Thessalonica “Eschatology,
Church and Society” Vasilis Adrachtas, Theologian, Director of the
Scientific Quarterly for the Study of Religiosity “Religious Studies-Sacred/Profane” “The
political dimension of Eschatology” Sunday December 9th 2000 Stelios Papalexandropoulos, Ph.d, Professor, National and
Kapodistriac University of Athens “New
Age, new religiosity and eschatology” Stauros Yiangazoglou, Ph.d, Theologian, Director of the
culture review “Indiktos” “Deifying
community-eschatological community in the theology of Gregory Palamas” Sunday January 20th 2001 Marios Begzos, Ph.d, Professor in Comparative
Philosophy of Religion, National and Capodistriac University of Athens “Christian
and Judaic Eschatology” Demetres Arkadas, Ph.d Candidate, School of
Theology, Aristotle University of Thessalonica “The end
of history in the eschatology of the Gospel of John” Alexandros Kariotoglou, Ph.d, Theologian, Religions
specialist “Aspects
of Islamic Eschatology. The case of Al Ghazali” Sunday February 24th 2001 Metropolitan of
Pergamos John Zizioulas, Member of the National Academy, Professor, King’s College, formerly
Professor at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Thessalonica “Church
and Eschatology” Thanasis Papathanasiou, Ph.d, Theologian, Editor of the
theological review Synaxi Demetres Moschos, Ph.d, Theologian, M.A. in
Byzantine Civilization “The
Eschatology and the extreme end. Monasticism and Mission” Sunday March 10th 2001 George Patronos, Ph.d, Professor, National and Capodistriac
University of Athens “The
human being as a person in protology, history and eschatology” George Skaltsas, Ph.d, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
(Paris) “The
dynamics of social realization of eschatology according to Gregory of Nyssa” Sunday April 28th 2001 Pantelis Kalaitzidis, DEA Philosophy, University of Sorbonne “Church and Nation in
eschatological perspective” George Pavlos, Ph.d, Professor, Polytechnic School in Xanthi “Physical
and eschatological time: Homer, tragical poetry, Maximus the Confessor,
Einstein, Heisenberg, Prigogin, Hawking” Sunday May 12th 2001 fr. Evangelos Ganas, “Eschatological points in modern
European and Greek Literature” Christos Giannaras, Ph.d, Professor, Panteion University “The
language of metaphysical eschatology” The lectures of the Academic Year 2000-2001
were published by the Kastaniotis Publications (September 2003). There is an
agreement for an edition in English with the Holy Cross Orthodox Press,
Brookline Massachusetts and World Council of Churches Publications, which is
expected in 2004. *** ü The theme of Academic Year 2001-2002 was Orthodoxy and Modernity. The program was as follows: Sunday November 17th 2001 “Christian
theology and modernity” Petros Vasiliadis, Ph.d, Professor, Aristotle
University of Thessalonica Thanos Lipovac, Ph.d, Professor in Political
Psychology, Panteion University Sunday December 15th 2001 “Orthodoxy
and religious alterity” Metropolitan of Gera
Ephesus Chrysostomos Constandinides, Ph.d, Professor, Theological School of Halke “Orthodoxy
and Human Rights” Antonis Manitakis, Ph.d, Professor in Constitutional
Law, Aristotle University of Thessalonica Sunday December 26th 2002 “Reason
and Enlightment. Apophatic and eschatological reason” Demetres Oulis, Theologian, Ph.d Candidate in the
Byzantine Philosophy, National and Kapodistriac University of Athens “Nation,
State, Church” John Petrou, Ph.d, Professor in Sociology,
Aristotle University of Thessalonica fr. Antonios
Pinakoulas,
Theologian and Lawyer, Vicar priest of the Holy Temple of Saint Panteleimon in
Halandri Sunday February 16th 2002 “Christology
and Modernity” Kostas Agoras, Ph.d, University of Sorbonne,
academic director of the program “Studies in Orthodoxy” of the Greek Open
University “Theology,
Psychology and Psychoanalysis” fr. Vasilios Thermos, Ph.d, Theologian, Child
Psychiatrist Sunday March 9th 2002 “Church
and the Left” Alekos Alavanos, member of European Parliament Stauros Zoumpoulakis, Editor of the literary magazine Nea Hestia Pantelis Boukalas, Journalist at newspaper Kathimerini Kostas Mygdalis, Architect, Counselor of
Interparliamentary Assembly for Orthodoxy Thanasis Papathanasiou, Ph.d, Theologian, Editor of the
theological review Synaxi Sunday April 6th 2002 “From
modernity to postmodernity. The discourse of Theology and Church” fr. Evangelos Ganas, Theologian, Mechanical engineer, N.T.U.A., Vicar priest of the Holy Temple of saint
Meletius in Sepolia Miltiadis Konstantinou, Ph.d, Professor in Old
Testament Hermeneutics, Aristotle
University of Thessalonica Marios Begzos, Ph.d, Professor in Comparative Philosophy of Religion, National and
Capodistriac University of Athens Demetres Bekridakis, Mphil, Religious Science, Director
of the Scientific Quarterly for the Study of Religiosity “Religious Studies-Sacred/Profane” The lectures of the Academic Year 2001-2002
will be published by the Indiktos Publications (2004). There is an agreement
for an edition in English with the Holy Cross Orthodox Press, Brookline
Massachusetts and World Council of Churches Publications, which is expected in
2004. The winter program of the Academy of
Theological Studies in the academic Year 2001-2002 carried out interested
events parallel to the main outlook Orthodoxy and the Modernity. A round table discussion on “Islam and Fundamentalism. Orthodoxy and
Globalization” took
place at the “Spierer” building, Monday November 12th 2001, 19:00 in
collaboration with the newspaper Thessalia.
The coordinator was the editor of the newspaper journalist Thanasis Samaras The participants were: His Eminence
Metropolitan of Demetrias Ignatius Andreas Andrianopoulos, member of the Parliament and ex Minister Hasan Badaoui, Ph.d, Professor in History,
Aristotle University of Thessalonica Marios Begzos, Ph.d, Professor in Comparative Philosophy of Religion, National and
Capodistriac University of Athens The lectures of this event were published by
the Indiktos Publications (January 2004) A theological workshop on «Fear
and Freedom in the life of the Church» took
place at the Spiritual
Center of Holy Temple of Christ’s Ascent in Volos, Saturday December 1st
2001, 9:00, in collaboration with the theological review Synaxi. The participants
were: His Eminence
Metropolitan of Thiva and Livadia Hieronymus fr Stamatis Skliris, Doctor, Theologian, Hagiographer John Papadopoulos, Theologian Thanasis Papathanasiou, Ph.d, Theologian, Editor of the
theological review Synaxi Nick Kiriazis, Ph.d, Psychiatrist-Child
Psychiatrist Klimis Pirounakis, Theologian The texts of the lectures and the conversation
that followed them were published in the theological review Synaxi,
issue 82, June 2002. A meeting and a discussion took place at New
Ionia on Sunday December 2nd 2001, 11:00 in collaboration with the
theological review Synaxi with subject: «Does contemporary
man need theology?» The participants were: fr. Paulos Ioannou, Secretary of the Church Council Committee
of Youth fr. Arsenius Meskos, Theologian and Mechanical
Engineer, Holy Monastery of Transfiguration Sochos, Thessalonica Evi Voulgaraki, Theologian The texts of the lectures were published in the
above issue of the theological review Synaxi A presentation of the first issue of the three
month edition of Holy Metropolis of Servia and Kozani Analogion took place on
Monday March 4th 2002, 19:30. The magazine was presented by fr. Themistokles Mourtzanos, Eleni Gali-Progidou and Stavros Yiangazoglou. *** ü The theme of Academic Year 2002-2003 was Gender and Religion. The place
of women in Church.
The program was as follows: Sunday February 1st 2003 Marios Begzos, Ph.d, Professor in Comparative Philosophy of
Religion, National and Capodistriac University of Athens “Gender
and Religion” George Skaltsas, Ph.d, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
(Paris) “Human
sexuality and the non-gendered God” Sunday February 15th 2003 Stauros Yiangazoglou, Ph.d, Theologian, Director of the
culture review “Indiktos” “The
otherness of persons and differentiation of gender. A
theological criticism of the assumptions of feminist theology” Katerina Zorba, Philologist-Theologian,
President of the Christian Women Forum of Europe “Is
there a place in Orthodoxy for a feminist theology?” Sunday March 15th 2003 John Petrou, Professor at the University of
Thessalonica “The
Church and women problem” Evangelos Theothorou, Ph.d, Emeritus Professor, National
and Capodistriac University of Athens “The Deaconesses
in the ancient Church” Sunday April 29th 2003 Eva Adamtziloglou, Ph.d, Theologian, Principal in 4th
Junior School of Thessalonica “Is
woman in the image of God?” fr. Antonios Kaligeris, Master in Theology, Director of the
Archbishops Office for Youth “Women
and the pastoral act: a difficult relationship” Sunday April 12th 2003 Konstantinos
Giokarinis, Ph.d,
Theologian, Professor, Pedagogical section of Secondary Education of the
National and Capodistriac University of Athens “The
question of the ordination of women” Sister Theodekti, Holy Monastery of Timios
Prodromos, Anatoli Agias “Gender
equality and female monasticism” Sunday May 24th 2003 Round Table discussion on “Religions and women: The problem of violence and fundamentalism”.
The participants were: Anna Karamanou, member of European Parliament Teny Pirri-Simonian, In charge of Interreligious affairs of the
World Council of Churches (Geneva) Zannet Batinou, Director of the Jewish Museum of Greece Mehrezia Maiza, Member of the group “Bible and Koran” of the
movement “Group d’Orsay” (Paris) The lectures of the Academic Year 2002-2003
will be published by the Indiktos Publications. The winter program of the Academy of Theological
Studies in the academic Year 2002-2003 carried out interested events parallel
to the main outlook “Gender and Religion. The place of women in the Church” «Making a bridge between the Divine and the human, east and west» Sunday March 5th 2003 This event was organised due to the occasion of the edition of the
series “Bridges” from Armos publications (R.M. Rilke, fr. George Florofsky,
Archbishop of Australia Stylianos, Ezra Pound, Denys Areopagita, S. Gounelas,
V. N. Tatakis, Mathew Mountes, Hölderlin, fr. Lampros Kamperides) The participants were: S. Gounelas, Author, Poet, Athens fr. Lambros Kamperides, Ph.d, Professor, Concordia University -
Sherbrooke University (Canada) Alexandros
Kosmatopoulos,
Author, Athens Greece Theoklis Kanarelis, Ph.d, Architect, Professor,
University of Thessaly, Volos Greece THEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CHURCH ARCHITECTURE Drury University Center in
Volos in collaboration with Academy of Theological Studies March-May 2003 March 4, 6:00 p.m. Alkis Tsolakis, Ph.d, Professor, Drury University, Missuri U.S.A. «Introduction» fr. Lambros
Kamperidis, Ph.d, Concordia University - Sherbrooke University,
Canada «Sacred spaces
east and west» March 16 Overnight trip to Delphi, visit Hosios Loukas March 19, 6:00 p.m. P. Vasiliadis, Ph.d, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessalonika «Theology of worship and liturgical renewal» April 2 J. Varalis,
Ph.d, Professor, University of Thessaly «The iconographical program of the Byzantine
church» April 4 Visit to Meteora April 5 Visit to the "Temple of Mneme", the
chapel of the "Exodos" rehabilitation community, an example of
renewal of the Byzantine iconographie tradition April 7, 9:00 a.m. Eleni Fessa, Ph.d,
Professor, National and Capodistriac University of Athens «The churches of Aristotelis
Zachos in Volos» April 10th-April
13th Thessaloniki,
visit Byzantine sites
and museums, Euterpi Marki, Ph.d,
Archaeologist Sunday services at Vlatadon monastery and lecture by fr. Philippos
Zymaris April
14,
6:00 p.m. Stavros Mamaloukos, Architect, Conservation
expert of Byzantine Monuments «Short overview of church architecture (early
Christian, Byzantine and post Byzantine)» April 23 Visit to Mistra April 26 Visit to Aegina: Paleachora and Agios Nektarios-Pascha Servises Lecture fr. Konstantine
Terzopoulos, Ph.d, «Byzantine music
and Sacred Space» May 19th-22nd Final presentation of project May 2-3, University of Thessaly, Amphitheatre “J. Kordatos” Congress with subject “Literature and Theology. From
the dispute to dialogue”, in
collaboration with the literaly magazine “Nea
Hestia”. Participants were: Pantelis Kalaitzides, John Demetrakakis, Antonis Zervas, Nikos Fokas,
Stauros Zouboulakis, Kostas Koutsourelis, Klairi Mitsotaki, fr. Nikolaos
Loudovikos, Agelos Kalogeropoulos, Kostas Androulidakis, Evi Voulgaraki,
Thanasis Hatzopoulos, Agelos Mantas, Kyriakos Haralabides, Demetres
Kosmopoulos, Demetres Vlachodemos, N. D. Triantaphillopoulos, Kostas Akrivos. The proceedings of the congress were published by the “Nea Hestia” at the first two issues of
2004. *** ü The theme of Academic Year 2003-2004 was Orthodoxy and Multiculturalism. The program was as follows: Sunday February 7th 2004 John Petrou, Ph.d, Professor, Aristotle University of
Thessalonica «Collective identities, Religion and
Multiculturalism» fr. Vasilios Thermos, Ph.d, Theologian, Child
Psychiatrist «Orthodox Church and civil society» Sunday March 13th 2004 fr. Immanuel Clapsis, Ph.d, Professor, Orthodox School
of Holy Cross in Boston, U.S.A. «Towards a theology of alterity» Thanasis Papathanasiou, Ph.d, Theologian, Editor of the
theological review Synaxi «Mission and Multiculturalism» Sunday March 20th 2004 His Eminence Bishop of Nafpaktos and Saint
Vlasios Ierotheos «Pastoral
care in multiculturalism» fr. Grigorios
Papathomas, Ph.d,
Professor, Orthodox Theological Institute “Saint Serge”, Paris «From the Empire and Nation Church to the Church
of the open multicultural societies» Sunday April 24th 2004 Tarek Mitri, In charge of the interreligious
relations of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Professor, University of
Balamand (Lebanon), Visitor Professor, University of Harvard, U.S.A. «Globalization, Postmondernity, Multiculturalism» fr. Lambros Kamperides, Ph.d, Professor, Concordia University -
Sherbrooke University, Canada «The multiformity of Orthodoxy in
one-dimensional world. Theological and historical approaches to the subject of
alterity» Wednesday April
28th 2004 Bishop of Dioclea Kalistos (Ware), Ph.d, Professor, University of Oxford «Orthodox Church in a pluralist society» Sunday May 8th 2004 «Multiculturalism in the Holy Bible» Miltiades Konstantinou, Ph.d, Professor, Aristotle University of
Thessalonica Demetres Arkadas, Master in Theology Sunday May 15th 2004 «Byzantium and Multiculturalism » A. Agelou, Ph.d, Professor in Byzantine Literature, University
of Ioannina Concert with the
musical schema “En Chordais” and invited musicians from Persia, Lebanon, Turkey Sunday May 22th 2004 «The future of theology as science in the age of
multiculturalism and postmondernity» Konstantinos Thelikonstantis, Ph.d, Professor, National and Capodistriac University
of Athens Petros Vasiliades, Ph.d, Professor, Aristotle University of
Thessalonica «The religious lesson between inersectionary and
multiculturalism» Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Philosophy DEA, University of Sorbonne, coordinator
of the winter program of the Academy of Theological Studies, associate of the
Pedagogical Institute Thusday May 25th 2004 «Orthodoxy and Islam in front of the challenge
of religious alterity, globalization and multiculturalism» Archbishop of Tiranna and Albania Anastasios
(Giannoulatos) Public discussion with subject: «Questions on
New-Hellenic Identity» which was the theme examined in the issues 16-17 of the cultural review Indiktos. Participants were: Stauros Yiangazoglou, Ph.d, Theologian, Counselor of the
Pedagogical Institute, Director of the culture review “Indiktos” Marianna Koromila, Author, Historian Nikos Kolovos, Lecturer, University of Thessaly,
Volos, Greece Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Philosophy DEA, University of Sorbonne,
coordinator of the winter program of the Academy of Theological Studies,
associate of the Pedagogical Institute Discourse panel on «The
participation of the laity in the life of the Church» Participators were: Theophilos Ambatzithes, Theologian, Director of the
theological review Analogion fr. Nikolaos
Louthovikos, Ph.d,
Professor, Higher Church School of Thessalonica and the Orthodox Institute of
Cambridge fr. Vasilios Thermos, Ph.d, Theologian, Child
Psychiatrist «Ancient greek
thought, Judaism, Christianity: History and Nature in the thought of the
philosopher Costas Papaioannou» George Skaltsas, Ph.d, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Paris Alekos Karageorgiou, Sociologist, mineralogist, Technical Inspector of Labour Christos Memos, Philologist, degree from Panteion University,
candidate Ph.d. on Sociology Manos Stefanides, Commissary of the National Art Gallery George Karambelias, Author, Publisher of the Ardin magazine The meeting was organised in collaboration with the newspaper Thessalia, the bookstore Paedeia, the Ardin magazine and the Alternative
Publications «Orthodoxy and
Education. The religious lesson as identity and cultural lesson» Staff Training Seminary in collaboration with the Interparliamentary Assembly for
Orthodoxy and the Pedagogical
Institute «Church and the Eschatology» Presentation of the Academy’s first published
book in Athens, Thessalonica and Volos The theme of Academic Year 2004-2005 was The participation of laity in
the life of Church.
The program was as follows: —The function of charismata in the
body of the Church Rev. Grigorios Papathomas, PhD, Professor, Orthodox
Theological Institute “Saint Serge”, Paris —Episkopomonismus
and populism in the orthodox tradition Rev. Nikolaos Loudovikos, PhD, Professor, Superior Ecclesiastical School of Thessalonica and Orthodox
Institute of University
of Cambridge —Celibacy
and the language of worship as institutional test of the ecclesiological truth Rev. Vasilios Thermos, PhD, Theologian, Child
Psychiatrist —The participation of women in the
life of Church: Another case of depreciation of laity? Eleni Kasselouri-Hatjivasiliadi, PhD, Theologian —The participation of laity in worship John Fountoulis, Peer Professor, —The ministry of bishop in the
mystery of Church expecting the realisation of the Konstantinos Agoras, PhD, —The people of God in the biblical tradition Savvas Agourides, Peer Professor, National and —Participating in ecclesiastical tradition
and modern questioning Rev. Emmanuel Clapsis, PhD, Professor, Dean of the Orthodox School of Holy Cross in Boston,
U.S.A. —Baptismal theology and “Royal
Priesthood”: The priesthood of laity Paul Meyendorff, PhD,
Professor, Dean of the Orthodox
Theological Seminary of —The liturgical renewal and the
demand of the participation of the laity in the life of Church Petros Vasiliades, PhD, Professor, —Church and Eucharist: body of Christ
or body of bishops? Bishop of Pazarevats
Ignatius Mintits, PhD, Professor, Theological Faculty of —Beginnings of hierarchical ecclesiology
in the Corpus Areopagiticum Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Philosophy DEA,
—Diachronic and interorthodox view of the question of laity’s participation
in bishop’s election George Gavardinas, PhD, Theologian —Laity in communion of Saints
and citizens in civil society Konstantinos Zorbas, PhD, Theologian,
Sociologist —Institution and charisma in
orthodox ecclesiology Stauros Yiangazoglou, PhD, Theologian, Counselor of the Pedagogical Institute, Director of the culture review “Indiktos” —From the “official religion” to
the reconstruction of eucharistic
communities. The demand of laity’s participation and the separation of state
and Church Theophilos Abatzides, Master in Theology, Collaborator of the Academy of Theological Studies All meetings will take place in Congress Centre FORUM
(Deligiorgi 9 – Polimeri). Lectures
will be followed by coffee break and discussion. Attendance is free for the
public. PARALLEL EVENTS: TURBULENCES
IN POSTWAR THEOLOGY
“Theology of 60’s” Three day theological congress in collaboration
with the Synaxi, theological review Congress Centre of Beginning: Expiry: —Introduction. From the "Zoe" movement to the theological renewal of the 60’s Theophilos Abatzides, Master in Theology, Collaborator of the Academy of Theological Studies —The theology of the Russian diaspora and its echo in Stelios Papalexandropoulos, PhD, Professor, National and —Reflections on the theology
of John Romanides fr. Vasilios Thermos, PhD, Theologian, Child Psychiatrist —Eros as a way of theology/freedom fr. Nikolaos
Loudovikos, PhD, Professor, —Law, commands and freedom Stavros Zoumpoulakis, Editor of the literary magazine Nea Hestia —Person and nature, history and eschatology
in John Zizioulas Bishop of Pergamos
and Christos Giannaras Konstantinos Agoras, PhD, —Person and subject. On anthropology of person Elias Papagiannopoulos, PhD, Philosophy, Professor, —Biblical studies and theology of the
60’s Miltiades Konstantinou, PhD, Professor, —“Theology of the 60’s” and Thanasis Papathanasiou, PhD, Theologian, Editor of the
theological review Synaxi —The discovery of greekhood and theological anti-occidentalism Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Philosophy DEA,
—Theological critics of Bishop’s
institution during the first four centuries. A historical study in dialogue
with the theology
of the 60’s George Skaltsas, PhD, Ecole Pratique
des Hautes Etudes (Paris), Collaborator of Academy of
Theological Studies —Eucharistic ecclesiology and
monastic spirituality. The question of “gerontismos” Stauros Yiangazoglou, PhD, Theologian, Counselor of the Pedagogical Institute of Greece, Director of the review “Indiktos” —N. Nisiotis,
P. Nellas and the theological generation of the 60’s Sotiris Gounelas, Author, poet —The theological “ Th. Vletsis, PhD, Theologian, Professor, Department of
Orthodox Theology, —Theology and culture Christos Stamoulis, PhD, Professor, —Theology and politics: a lost
opportunity of the generation of the 60’s Demetres Moschos, PhD, Theologian, M.A. in Byzantine
Civilization Limited number of participants,
registration 20€ Future
activities planning The a) Orthodoxy and Islam b) c) Church-State relationship |