Christos Yannaras

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Christos Yannaras (Greek: Χρήστος Γιανναράς, also transliterated Giannaras) is an important Greek philosopher and writer of more than 50 books, translated into many languages.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Βibliography 3 External links 3.1 Online texts 3.2 Reviews

[edit] Biography

Christos Yannaras (born in Athens, 1935) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. He studied Theology at the University of Athens and Philosophy at the Universities of Bonn (Germany) and Paris (France). He is a Ph.D of the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He is also a Ph.D at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the University of Sorbonne (Paris). He has been nominated Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, at the University of Belgrade; Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris (the Catholic Faculty), Geneva, Lausanne and Crete; Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, from 1982 to 2002; and elected member of the Hellenic Authors' Society.

The main volume of Professor Yannaras' work represents a long course on study and research of the differences between the Greek and Western European philosophy and tradition. Differences that are not limited at the level of theory only, but also define a mode (praxis) of life.

[edit] Βibliography

• Full Bibliography in Greek

In English

• Person and Eros, H.C. Press (Brookline, MA), 2008 (ISBN 978-1-885652-88-1)
• Orthodoxy and the West, H.C. Press (Brookline, MA), 2006 (ISBN 1-885652-81-X)
• Variations on the Song of Songs, H.C. Press (Brookline, MA), 2005 (ISBN 1-885652-82-8)
• Postmodern Metaphysics, H.C. Press (Brookline, MA), 2004 (ISBN 1-885652-80-1) read the table of contents
• On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite, London (Continuum, 2005) (ISBN 0-567-08806-5)
• Elements of Faith, Edinburgh (T&T Clark), 1991 (ISBN 0-567-29190-1)
• The Freedom of Morality, New York (SVP), 1984 (ISBN 0-88141-028-4)

In French

• Variations sur le Cantique des Cantiques, Paris (Desclée de Brouwer), 1992 (ISBN 2-220-03273-6)
• Philosophie sans rupture, Genève (Labor et Fides), 1986 (ISBN 2-8309-0046-4)
• De l’absence et de l’inconnaissance de Dieu, Paris (Cerf), 1971
• La foi vivante de l’Église, Paris (Cerf), 1989 (ISBN 2-204-03160-7)
• La morale de la liberté, Genève (Labor et Fides), 1984 (ISBN BA-45978923)
• Vérité et unité de l’Église, Grez-Doiceau (Editions Axios), 1989

In German

• Person und Eros, Göttingen, (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht), 1982

In Italian

• Ignoranza e conoscenza di Dio, Milan, (Jaca Book), 1973 & also,
• Heidegger e Dionigi Areopagita, Rome (Città Nuova editrice), 1993
• Variazioni sul Cantico dei Cantici, Milan (Nuova Stampa), 1992 (ISBN 88-8166-044-X)
• La fede dell’ esperienza ecclesiale, Brescia (Queriniana), 1993
• La libertà dell’Ethos, Bolognα (Dehoniane), 1984
• Verità e Unità della Chiesa, Milan (Nuova Stampa) (ISBN 88-8166-019-9)

In Romanian

• Heidegger şi Areopagitul', Bucharest (Editura Anastasia)
• Persona şi Eros, Bucharest (Editura Anastasia)
• Abecedar al credintei, Bucharest (Editura Bizantina)
• Libertatea Moralei, Bucharest, (Editura Anastasia)
• Foamea şi Setea, Bucharest (Editura Anastasia)

In Russian

• Истина и Eдинство Церкви, Moscow (CBЯTO-ΦИЛAΡETOBCKИЙ) 2006
• Xaйдеггер и Aреопагит, Moscow (POCCПЭН) 2005
• Личноcть и Эрос, Moscow (POCCПЭН) 2005
• Bариации на Песнь Песней, Moscow (POCCПЭН) 2005
• Bepa Цepкви, Moscow 1992

In Serbian

• ΦИЛΟCΟΦИЈΑ ИЗ ΗΟΒΟΓ УΓЛΑ, Belgrade, (MИΡΟΤΟЧИΒΟΓ)
• ΧΑJДΕΓΕΡ И ДИΟΗИCИЈE ΑΡΕΟΠΑΓИΤ, Belgrade, (MИΡΟΤΟЧИΒΟΓ)
• AЗБУЧHИK BEPE, Novi Sad (Beseda)

In Slovenian

• Heidegger in Areopagit ali o Bozji odsotnosti in respoznatnosti, (Nova revija), 1991

In Ukrainian

• Свобода етосу, Kiev (Дух і Літера) 2003
• Нерозривна філософія, Kiev, (Oснови)
• Варіації на тему Пісні Пісень, Kiev (Дух і Літера)

In Bulgarian

• ΚPИЗATA KATO ПРЕДИЗВИKATEЛCTBO, Sofia (ЛИΚ), 2002

In Finnish

• Nälkä ja Jano, (Joensuu) 1991

[edit] External links

• Christos Yannaras in the Saint Pachomius Library

[edit] Online texts

• "Pietism as an Ecclesiological Heresy" (Chapter 8 of The Freedom of Morality)
• "The Ethos of Liturgical Art" (Chapter 12 of The Freedom of Morality)
• "The inhuman character of human rights" (synopsis in English of the homonymous Greek book, published by Domos, Athens 1998)
• Yannaras' lecture on "Human rights and the Orthodox Church"
• "Towards a New Ecumenism"
• "A Note on Political Theory" (St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, 27:1 (1983), pp. 53-56)
• "The Distinction Between Essence and Energies and its Importance for Theology" Athens, February, 1975. Translated from the Greek by Rev. Peter Chamberas
• Read the chapter "Cantus Firmus" from the "Variations of the song of songs" in Greek" or in English
• Free PDFs of some of Christos Yannaras's writings

[edit] Reviews

• "The Theology of personhood, a study of the thought of Christos Yannaras", a review of the book published afterwards under the title "Person and Eros". By R.D. WILLIAMS (now, Archbishop of Canterbury), journal "Sobornost" No.6, Winter 1972, pp. 415-430
• A review of Elements of Faith given by Reader Nicholas Franck

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