Christos Yannaras

Christos Yannaras in 2009

Christos Yannaras (Template:Lang-el; born 10 April 1935 in Athens) is a Greek philosopher, Eastern Orthodox theologian and author of more than 50 books, translated into many languages.

Academia

He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. He studied Theology at the University of Athens and Philosophy at the Universities of Bonn (Germany) and Paris (France). He has a Ph.D. of the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He holds also a Ph.D of the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the University of Sorbonne (Paris). He has been nominated Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, at the University of Belgrade and at St. Vladimir's Seminary, New York and the Holy Cross School, Boston; Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris (the Catholic Faculty), Geneva, Lausanne and Crete; Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, from 1982 to 2002; and 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 mode (praxis) of life.

Βibliography

• Full bibliography in Greek

In English

• The Freedom of Morality, New York (SVS Press), 1984 (ISBN 0-88141-028-4)
• Elements of Faith, Edinburgh (T&T Clark), 1991 (ISBN 0-567-29190-1)
• On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite, London (Continuum, 2005) (ISBN 0-567-08806-5)
• Postmodern Metaphysics, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2004 (ISBN 1-885652-80-1) table of contents
• Variations on the Song of Songs, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2005 (ISBN 1-885652-82-8)
• Orthodoxy and the West, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2006 (ISBN 1-885652-81-X)
• Person and Eros, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2008 (ISBN 978-1-885652-88-1)
• The Meaning of Reality: Essays on Existence and Communion, Eros and History. Sebastian Press (Los Angeles), 2011 (ISBN 978-1936773039)
• Relational Ontology, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2011 ([ISBN 978-1935317197)
• The Enigma of Evil, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2012 (ISBN 978-1935317289)
• Against Religion: The Alienation of the Ecclesial Event, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (Brookline, MA), 2013 (ISBN 978-1935317401)

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, Rowan (now, Archbishop of Canterbury): The 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.

Online texts

• "Pietism as an Ecclesiological Heresy" (Chapter 8 of The Freedom of Morality)
• "The Ethos of Liturgical Art" (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"
• "A Note on Political Theory" (St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, 27:1 (1983), pp. 53–56)
• "The Distinction Between Essence and Energies and its Importance for Theology" Athens, February, 1975. Translated from the Greek by Rev. Peter Chamberas
• Read the chapter "Cantus Firmus" from the "Variations of the song of songs" in Greek" or in English
• Free PDFs of some of Christos Yannaras's writings
• The first chapter of the author's book "Orthodoxy and West in Modern Greece" (in Greek), and a collection of numerous articles also in Greek

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 R.D. WILLIAMS (now, Archbishop of Canterbury), journal "Sobornost" No.6, Winter 1972, pp. 415–430
• A review of Elements of Faith given by Reader Nicholas Franck

External links

• Christos Yannaras in the Saint Pachomius Library
• Christos Yannaras - OrthodoxWiki