Doctoral Thesis

Kommunion und Person

From early ecclesiology to a mature personalism: Sergii Bortnyk’s systematic study, in German, of the writings of John Zizioulas from 1965 to 2011.

The Original Fall of the Human Creature and Its Consequences in the Theology of Ioannis Zizioulas

The Fall as an ontological and personalist question, not a moral one: Petr Soukal’s dissertation (Gregorian University, Rome) on Metropolitan John.

A Reparative Reading of the Eucharistic Ecclesiology of John Zizioulas and Its Reception as Social Trinitarianism

Why John Zizioulas does not argue for a social doctrine of the Trinity: the doctoral thesis of Thomas William Ruston (Birmingham, 2022).

The Father's Eternal Freedom

Dario Chiapetti on the personalist Trinitarian ontology of Metropolitan John; Norman Russell finds him vindicated as an accurate patristic scholar.

The Mystery of Christ and the Mystery of the Church

Creation, history and the eschata, and how the Church relates to Christ: Nikolaos Asproulis compares Georges Florovsky and Metropolitan John.