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Christos Yannaras

(Also transliterated CHRESTOS GIANNARAS)
XX/XXI Centuries
Prominent and sometimes controversial Greek theologian, noted for his attempts to re-express Orthodox truths in the language of modern philosophy, especially existentialism, and for his opposition to what he called a "dead" or "pietistic" understanding of religion by then-influential groups like the Zoë Brotherhood.
See also art, ecumenism, freedom, philosophy, science.
Norman Hugh Redington

SELECTED WORKS:
- The Distinction between Essence and Energies and its Importance for Theology. --- T. R. Valentine
- The Freedom of Morality, (1979). Crestwood: SVS, 1984.
  - The Ethos of Liturgical Art. --- Blagovest Bells
  - Pietism as an Ecclesiological Heresy: --- Phil Thompson
- Elements of Faith, (1983). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clarke, 1991.
  - Rdr. Nicholas Franck: Review: Generally favourable. --- New Ostrog
- Towards a New Ecumenism, (1996). More than that, an expression of an entire philosophy of Christian life. From Sourozh, LXX (1997), (translated from French version in Contacts, CLXXIX, 202 (1996)). --- Orthodoxy Today

4; Morality; Theology;
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