Eschatology is not simply a doctrine; it is an orientation, a perspective, a mode of existence. Eschatology does not concern only the future; it affects our past as well as our present. This is how the Church viewed and experienced the “last things” from the beginning.
METROPOLITAN JOHN ZIZIOULAS
Faith is not simply the obedience to the word of God; it is, concretely, the consent to accept God’s future promises, which ends up replacing the protological reality, which is controllable by our senses, with a “subsistence of things hoped for, the assurance of things not seen” (Heb 11:1).
METROPOLITAN JOHN ZIZIOULAS
John Zizioulas Foundation
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What Is Theology and How Do We Do It?
According to Zizioulas, the confinement of the Orthodox faith in a “system” is dangerous and somewhat incompatible with the nature and character of Orthodox theology.
Zizioulas' contribution to methodology consists in placing Dogmatic theology on six foundations, which, we believe, distance it from Western Scholastic methodology and return it to the ancient Patristic ethos.
The approach that characterizes the research and studies of John Zizioulas in systematic theology is that of the ontological hermeneutics of faith and the doctrines of the Church.
The exceptional contribution of John Zizioulas to the cultivation of Systematic Theology is clarified in more detail in the following analysis of his opus.
Orthodox Theology and the Challenges
of the 21st Century
A vision for future theology as a new paradigm across philosophy, science, and art. Instead of clinging to historical forms, Orthodox theology offers a forward-looking vision, urging younger generations to expand on this foundation creatively.
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Biography
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Chronology
John D. Zizioulas (1931-2023) was a modern theologian and Metropolitan of Pergamon, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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Brief Biographical Note
John D. Zizioulas (1931-2023) was a modern theologian and Metropolitan of Pergamon, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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Youth
John Zizioulas was born on January 10, 1931, in the village of Katafygio near Kozani. There were four children in the family of Demetrios and Marianthi.
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Theological Education
In 1949 John Zizioulas was admitted to the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki, first in line of successful candidates.
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Integrity
Metropolitan John was one of the most influential Greek thinkers, who was fortunate to change the terms by which theology is done.
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Academy of Athens
In 1993 he became a member of the Academy of Athens, the highest academic post in Greece, serving as its chairman in 2002.
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Videoteque
Zizioulas Videotheque offers for educational purposes a number of video presentations and lectures that Metropolitan John Zizioulas gave in different occasions, such as symposia and church settings. You can explore the collection of videos for educational purposes and benefit from John Zizioulas' theological insights.
Remembering the Future
BY: JOHN D. ZIZIOULAS, Metropolitan of Pergamon
In this major new book the late Metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas shows that eschatology can have crucial implications for ontology - for being itself.
Answering some of the biggest questions today, John Zizioulas shows how this eschatological ontology permeates Christian doctrine, particularly that of creation and ecclesiology.
The world was created with a purpose and the end which would be greater than the beginning.
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Selected Books
Lectures in Christian Dogmatics
Edited by Douglas H. Knight and Katerina Nikolopulu
London: T&T Clark, 2009
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Reception
As Others Saw Him
A Horizontal Man: Metropolitan John Zizioulas
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Farewell, Master!—John Zizioulas as a Patient
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Teaching in Rome: Exploring the Impact of Zizioulas on a Catholic Theologian
Fr. James Keenan Take and Read Blog April 18, 2016...
The Individual and the Church
John Zizioulas and the Eastern Orthodox Perspective Eric...
This is the Kind of Teacher We Need(ed)
Marko Vilotić...
Éloge du métropolite Jean (Zizioulas) de Pergame
Prononcé à l’Institut Saint-Serge par le professeur...
The essence of the fall consists in humanity’s enslavement to the past, its exiling of the future to the domain of the unreal and denial of it having an ontological effect on existence.
Remembering the Future
Self-love (philautia) is identical with the fall because it expresses at the moral level the ontological movement toward the protological state of existence, the affirmation of what is already there, the self.
Remembering the Future
Faith is not simply the obedience to the word of God; it is, concretely, the consent to accept God’s future promises, which ends up replacing the protological reality, which is controllable by our senses, with a “subsistence of things hoped for, the assurance of things not seen” (Heb 11:1).
Remembering the Future
