On June 8-10, 2015 the international Halki Summit II, organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Southern New Hampshire University (USA) was successfully held in Heybeliada, Turkey on the general theme: “Theology, Ecology, and the Word: a conversation on the environment, literature and the arts”. The Halki Summit is a gathering of activists, scientists, journalists, business leaders, theologians, and academics engaging and working across intellectual boundaries to bring the global environmental discussion to a new and richer place. At the heart of that discussion is the belief
On the occasion of the Euro zone Summit on the problem of the Greek economic crisis and the debt, the Volos Academy for Theological Studies by its Director Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis co-signed with other eminent Greek theologians and scholars “A Christian Call in a time of crisis in Europe”, inviting the Churches of Europe to pressure the centers of power towards a Europe based on social solidarity and peaceful coexistence of people. This text was very warmly received by representatives of the
On October, 10, 2016, a round table discussion was successfully held in Athens, at the “House of Cyprus”. The event was organized by the Publishing House Porphyra with the support of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, on the occasion of the presentation of the Greek translation of two books by the well-known writer Jim Forest.
Jim Forest (b. 1941) is a lay theologian, writer
The project proposes to critically examine some key aspects of traditional doctrines of Christian (Orthodox) theism and theology related to divine and human personhood in the light of contemporary analytic theology and philosophy. At the same time it aims at promoting a first endeavor of deep and serious interdisciplinary engagement and cooperation among analytic philosophers and Orthodox theologians, a reality that was unforeseen in earlier times. Christian theory of
An International Conference was successfully held in Volos on September 27-28, 2016, organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in cooperation with the historic Catholic Academy of Bavaria. The conference was part of an official visit of staff and friends of the Catholic Academy to the city of Volos and their acquaintance with Orthodoxy and Greece. The scope of the conference was not
The Fifth International Symposium of the IAODT, with the theme “Primacy and Primacies in the Church,” took place with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Orthodox Church in Romania at the Caraiman Monastery, in September 25-27, 2016. The Symposium was made possible through th e gracious assistance of the “Justinian the Patriarch” Orthodox Theological
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On September 9-10, the GlobeTheoLib Consortium Committee 2016 meeting, responsible for the Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism, took place in Geneva (Switzerland). GlobeTheoLib was initiated in September 2011, by Globethics.net and the World Council of Churches, represented by its programme on Ecumenical Theological Education