Nikolaos Asproulis

Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, perhaps the most creative thinker of the contemporary Orthodox Church, was born in a small village near Kozani, Greece, in 1931. He studied theology at the University of Athens, where he received his degree in 1955. With a scholarship, he traveled abroad to study at Harvard University, where he received[…..]

For Christian theology, the eschaton represents both a mystery and a problematic. On the one hand, it expresses a mystery preached and promised by Jesus Christ as the culmination of his work, which penetrates history by confronting the Church, the individual, and history itself with a parousia from beyond. It is a constant experience (and[…..]

“The Lord is the first and quintessential monk” (22). Read out of context, one can hardly believe that these words come from the late Metropolitan John Zizioulas. Widely considered one of the most influential Orthodox theologians of our age, Zizioulas’s fame rests on his insistence on the episcopate and the Eucharist as the contexts which[…..]

In recent decades, there has been increasing interest in the theological, philosophical, and political legacy of Sergii Bulgakov (1871–1944). This is especially true in the English-speaking world.

When one claims to represent the Eastern Orthodox tradition, this implies that one is following a specific set of hermeneutical presuppositions of the common tradition. All Christian traditions share the same basic sources in the first millennium, so the definition of a theology as “Orthodox” is necessarily related to a specific point of view, to[…..]

Georges Florovsky (1893–1979) was the founder of a theological program that has become the main paradigm for Orthodox theology in our era, the so-called Neopatristic Synthesis. Begun in the early 1920s, his work sought to renew Orthodox theology on the basis of a constructive and interpretive return to the tradition of the church fathers, and[…..]