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Christos Yannaras (also Giannaras; el, Χρήστος Γιανναράς; born 10 April 1935) is a
Greek
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philosopher
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,
Eastern Orthodox theologian
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and author of more than 50 books which have been translated into many languages. He is a professor emeritus of
philosophy
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at the
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.
Biography
Yannaras was born in
Athens
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. He studied
theology
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at the
University of Athens
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and philosophy at the
University of Bonn
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(Germany) and the
University of Paris
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(France). He received a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Theology at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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(Greece). He holds also a Ph.D of the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines at the
Sorbonne-University of Paris IV. He has been nominated Doctor of Philosophy, ''
honoris causa'', at the
University of Belgrade
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,
St. Vladimir's Seminary, New York, and the Holy Cross School, Boston. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Paris (the Catholic Faculty), Geneva, Lausanne and Crete. He was Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, from 1982 to 2002. He is an elected member of the Hellenic Authors' Society.
The main volume of Yannaras' work represents a long course on study and research of the differences between the Greek and Western European philosophy and tradition, differences that are not limited at the level of theory only but also define a
praxis
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(mode of life).
Selected bibliography
In English
*''The Freedom of Morality'', New York (SVS Press), 1984 ()
*''Elements of Faith'', Edinburgh (T&T Clark), 1991 ()
*''On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite'', London (Continuum, 2005) ()
*''Postmodern Metaphysics'', Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2004 (
table of contents*''Variations on the Song of Songs'', Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2005 ()
*''Orthodoxy and the West'', Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2006 ()
*''Person and Eros'', Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2008 ()
*''The Meaning of Reality: Essays on Existence and Communion, Eros and History''. Sebastian Press (Los Angeles), 2011 ()
*''Relational Ontology'', Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2011 ()
*''The Enigma of Evil'', Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2012 ()
*''Against Religion: The Alienation of the Ecclesial Event'', Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2013 ()
Online textσ
"Pietism as an Ecclesiological Heresy"(Chapter 8 of The Freedom of Morality)
(Chapter 12 of The Freedom of Morality)
"The inhuman character of human rights"(synopsis in English of the homonymous Greek book, published by Domos, Athens 1998)
Yannaras' lecture on "Human rights and the Orthodox Church""Towards a New Ecumenism"(St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, 27:1 (1983), pp. 53–56)
Athens, February, 1975. Translated from the Greek by the Rev. Peter Chamberas
*Read the chapter "Cantus Firmus" from the "Variations of the song of songs
in Greek" o
in EnglishFirst chapter of the author's book ''Orthodoxy and West in Modern Greece''(in Greek)
Collection of numerous articlesin Greek
References
* Zoumboulakis, Stavros (2010). ''Χριστιανοί στον δημόσιο χώρο: Πίστη ή πολιτιστική ταυτότητα;''. Athens: "Hestia" Printing House.
Further reading
* Grigoropoulou, Evaggelia (2008):
The early development of the thought of Christos Yannaras.' Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
* Payne, Daniel P. (2006):'
The revival of political hesychasm in Greek Orthodox thought: a study of the hesychast basis of the thought of John S. Romanides and Christos Yannaras'. Doctoral thesis, Baylor University.
*
Williams, RowanThe Theology of Personhood: A Study of the Thought of Christos Yannaras from ”Sobornost” 6 (Winter 1972), pp. 415–430.
* Mitralexis, Sotiris
Person, Eros, Critical Ontology: An Attempt to Recapitulate Christos Yannaras’ Philosophy from ”Sobornost” 34:1 (2012), pp. 33–40.
* Louth, Andrew
Some Recent Works by Christos Yannaras in English Translation from “Modern Theology”, 25:2 (2009), pp. 329–340.
* Russell, Norman
Modern Greek Theologians and the Greek Fathers from “Philosophy & Theology” 18,1 (2006): pp. 77–92.
* Papagiannopoulos, Ilias
Re-appraising the subject and the social in western philosophy and in contemporary orthodox thought from “Studies in East European Thought” 58:4 (2006), pp. 299–330.
Book reviews
"The Theology of personhood, a study of the thought of Christos Yannaras" a review of the book published afterwards under the title ''Person and Eros'' by Rowan Williams (a former Archbishop of Canterbury) in the journal ''Sobornost'', No. 6, Winter 1972, pp. 415–430
by Nicholas Franck
External links
in the Saint Pachomius Library
Christos Yannaras - OrthodoxWiki
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1935 births
Living people
Eastern Orthodox writers
Eastern Orthodox theologians
Greek theologians
Greek writers
Greek philosophers
Eastern Orthodox philosophers
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki alumni
University of Bonn alumni
University of Paris alumni
Panteion University faculty
Writers from Athens