Analogio, Greek intellect and Orthodoxy, issue 6 (2003), p. 162.
The 6th issue of Analogio,quarterly edition of the Holy Metropolis of Servia and Kozani, has as its main subject the relations of the Greek intellect with Orthodoxy and the Church in the past and present. In the foreword, there is an introductory reflection on the tribute of the issue, which is illustrated with the work of Marios Spiliopoulos.
In the essay titled “Ancient Greek intellect and patristic theology” Theophilos Abatzidis examines the effects, convergences and divergences, on either side, between the spiritual sizes of Christianity and Hellenism in the first Christian centuries when the classic patristic theology was formed, particularly in cosmology, anthropology and theology.
Reciprocal suspiciousness, ignorance and absence of a context of serious and scientific dialogue are what Nikos Matsoukas detects as elements of the relations of Modern Greek intellect and theology from the 17th c. and on, when he finds “breaches” in the Greek cultural life, but also recognizes an admirable assimilation of elements of Orthodoxy in the work of creators, at least of the 20th c., as well as the weaknesses of a confessional scientific theology.
Giorgos Karabelias focuses on the special case of the relations of the left intellect with Orthodoxy, after a short retrospection of the history and intellectual course of Hellenism from the 11th c. and on, while Christos Ath. Terezis examines the religious-philosophical aspect of the work of Evangelos Papanoutsos, his theoretical approach on faith and knowledge, the meaning of religious truth and God, the relations of religion and history, revelation and Church.
Secularism, religious and modernizing, is pinpointed by Demetris Kosmopoulos as the problem of the Church in the present, while the retail not self-defining afflicts, in his opinion, the Greek intellect. On the contrary, art is characterized as “the most honest thing we have as a collective subject”, and the ecclesiastical field has to converse with it, overcoming its ankylosis.
Giorgos Th. Hatziiakovou makes a retrospection of the fermentations and the cultural osmoses that were incubated with their centre the Christian-socialist Student Movement and the activation of Christians in society, while he detects in the present stagnation and indifference on the side of the ecclesiastical field with regard to major issues of participation in social events.
Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis locates the criterion that ought to determine the social testimony of the Church in its eschatological identity, while I.A. Nikolaidis, in an extensive essay, explores faith and the Christian experience in modern Greek poetry.
Next comes an interview that the journal’s associate, Sotiris Gounelas, took from Kostas Georgousopoulos and then, in the theological essays section of the journal two studies are hosted: the first is by the Metropolitan of Pergamos Ioannis Zizioulas, in which he theologically examines the necessity for the synthesis of Christology and pneumatology on the level of ecclesiology and the consequences of this synthesis on the ecclesiastical institutions; the second, by Stavros Yagazoglou, is titled “Protology and eschatology” and analyses concisely Origen’s theology as the one which paved the way for a more mature encounter of Christianity with Hellenism in the after him Alexandrian School, in the patristic theology of the 4th c., the Cappadocian fathers etc.
The journal is complemented with the usual material, the Anthology of poets, Synaxarion, Idiomela, timely and untimely and Vivliostasion.