Analogio, Alexandros Papadiamantis, issue 2 (2002), p. 176.
The 2nd issue of AnalogioJournal is dedicated to the person and work of Alexandros Papadiamantis. In this issue, 14 articles are published that concern the tribute and 1 theological essay that does not. At the beginning, there is an introductory note by the syntactic group of Analogio.
The 1st article of the issue comes from the pen of A. Papadiamantis. In it, he calls his contemporary Modern Greeks to abandon the love of antiquity and to connect historically to ancient Greece through the body of the Church.
N. Triantafillopoulos examines the criticisms of Greek archaeologist scholars of the 19thc. against A. Papadiamantis and A. Moraitidis, who supported the continuity of the ancient Greek tradition through the Byzantines.
D. Mavropoulos presents the deep ecclesiastical ethos and character of the life and work of A. Papadiamantis, refuting the attributed to him characterization of a religious person and writer.
A. Kesselopoulos sketches out the cantor abilities and knowledge of the ecclesiastic liturgical ritual of A. Papadiamantis, but also their experience as liturgical ethos in his daily life and auctorial work.
A. Mandas refers to the attachment and perseverance of A. Papadiamantis with the ecclesiastical Byzantine monophonic music and analyses the causes and reasons of his attitude.
S. Papathanasiou examines the beginning of the creation of the work of A. Papadiamantis, focusing his interest on the theme of the relation of his fictional heroes with death, good and evil.
K. Charalampidis recognises in the work of Papadiamantis the wider supervision of the whole world that sympathizes with man and the analysis of the real existence of the human hypostasis.
S. Gounelas examines the function of poetry as sacred art in the work of A. Papadiamantis.
A. Kosmatopoulos, stressing Papadiamantis’ conscience regarding the division of his contemporary modern Greek society, presents the erotic vision that he had for a resurrected world.
N. Kesmeti speaks of the ontological enigmas in the face of which Papadiamantis brings the answers he himself gives through the existence and agony of his heroes.
S. Zoumpoulakis reads Fonissa with his interest focused on a moral central problem of ethics, the problem of evil, which in the particular work is detected in the loss of the ethos of penitence.
D. Kosmopoulos describes the attitude and positions of A. Papadiamantis towards the then formed national ideology of the modern Greek society and its official agent, the modern Greek State.
S. Molinos refers to the psychical pain of Papadiamantis’ heroes, the way it is expressed in merry two-verse songs scattered in the entire work of the writer from Skiathos.
K. Papagiorgis in his interview comments and criticizes current affairs, the problems and the content of the studies on Papadiamantis.
The theological essay of K. Sakatziadis is a presentation of a basic category in the theological thought of N. Nissiotis, the “ecclesiological cosmology” as a way of giving meaning to the relation of the Church with the world.