Tamara Grdzelidze – The Wheel Journal

Dr. Tamara Grdzelidze is a distinguished theologian and a professor of religious studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a graduate of Tbilisi University, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, and the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on Maximus the Confessor, scriptural hermeneutics and authority in the early church, and other topics. She previously served on the Faith & Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and an Ambassador of Georgia to the Holy See. Her books include Georgian Monks on Mount Athos: Two Eleventh Century Lives of the Hegoumenoi of Iviron (2009) and Reading the Gospels with the Early Church: A Guide (2013).

Blog posts

The Wheel #41/42. Orthodoxy Today. Summer-Fall 2025

The Church of Georgia in Process: A Case of Delayed Transition from the Soviet Era to Democracy Tamara Grdzelidze

Paradoxically, during the Soviet era, a time when compliance with the Soviet government was mandatory, churches exhibited a significant degree of resistance, if not outright opposition, to the Soviet regime….