10/07/2025 14:00
- 16:15
HALL: Seminar Room 05
Proponent:
Asproulis N.
Chair:
Asproulis N.
Speaker:
Awad N.,
Kalaitzidis P.,
Vasiljevic M.
In his last post-humous book, "Remembering the future: Towards an eschatological ontology" John Zizioulas a renowned modern theological and Metropolitan of Pergamon, argues that eschatology is not simply a doctrine. It is rather an orientation, a perspective, a mode of existence, which does not concern only the future, the afterlife matters. It primarily affects our past, as well as the present, not only our personal/individual history but also our social, political, cultural and ethical life and norms. This is how the church, at least the primitive church in its liturgical life viewed and experienced the "last things" from the beginning. Following a specific interpretion of the Greek patristic tradition, Zizioulas views the eschaton, the kingdom of God as the cause of everything we say that exists. In other words the eschaton gives to history and beings their true meaning. The panel aspires to explore various aspects of Zizioulas' eschatological vision and its relevance for systematic theology, politics, ethics, hermeneutics.