Notes on Contributors
Hans-Christoph Askani
is honorary professor of systematic theology at the University of Geneva’s Faculté de théologie. He studied Protestant theology, philosophy, and literature in Tübingen, Zurich, Paris and Berlin. He has published extensively, on Rosenzweig, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Ricœur, Levinas, as well as on many different theological and philosophical topics. He is a member of the ecumenical Groupe des Dombes. His most recent book is titled: Le pari de la foi (Labor et Fides, 2019).
Beate Bengard
is professor of systematic theology at the University of Geneva’s Faculté de théologie. She has studied theology and French literature in Dresden, Leipzig, Lausanne and Paris and held post-doctoral positions in Paris, Greifswald and Basel. She completed her doctoral dissertation in 2014 with a thesis titled Réception et Reconnaissance. L’herméneutique œcuménique de Paul Ricœur à la lumière de processus œcuméniques actuels en France (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015). She pursues research in the fields of hermeneutics and dogmatics with a focus on interreligious dialogue.
Christophe Chalamet
teaches systematic theology at the University of Geneva’s Faculté de théologie. He taught for 8 years at Fordham University, in New York City. He has published studies on 20th century Protestant theology and, most recently, A Most Excellent Way: An Essay on Faith, Hope, and Love (Fortress Academic-Lexington Books, 2020) and, as editor, The Challenge of History. Readings in Modern Theology (Fortress Press, 2020).
Konstantinos Delikostantis
studied at the Theological School of Halki (1970) before pursuing graduate studies at the University of Tübingen (MA, 1975; PhD in philosophy, 1980). In 1990 he became a professor of philosophy of religion at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Florina), and in 2001 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens (philosophy and systematic theology). He has published many articles and books, including Modern Humanitarianism (in German), The Ethos of Freedom (in Greek; Italian translation), Human Rights: Western Ideology or Universal Ethos (in Greek), Philosophical Anthropology (in Greek) and The Culture of Solidarity (in Greek). He has an abiding interest in the theology of Martin Luther. He currently directs the First Patriarchal Office at the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Phanar).
Reinhard Flogaus
teaches Church history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He studied Protestant theology, Jewish and Islamic studies in Tübingen, Munich, Jerusalem and Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in systematic theology and his habilitation in Church history at the Humboldt University. His research focuses on debates between Orthodox and Protestant as well as Catholic and Protestant theologians. He is the author of numerous articles. Among his most significant publications: Theosis bei Palamas und Luther. Ein Beitrag zum ökumenischen Gespräch (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997). In 2015 he has co-edited, with Jennifer Wasmuth: Orthodoxie im Dialog. Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven (W. de Gruyter). He has been a member of the Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the EKD and the Romanian Orthodox Church (1998–2004) and since then has been a member in the Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the EKD and the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
H.E. Archbishop Job of Telmessos (Getcha)
archbishop of Telmessos, is the permanent representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches (since 2015). He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He obtained his doctorate in theology from the Catholic University of Paris and Paris’ St. Serge Orthodox Theological Institute (2003). From 2005–2008, he served as Dean of St. Serge. He presently teaches at the Catholic University of Paris and at the Institute of Post-Graduate Studies in Orthodox theology in Chambésy-Geneva. His research focuses on Orthodox liturgical theology and spirituality, and ecumenism. Among his publications: Le Typikon décrypté. Manuel de liturgie byzantine (Cerf, 2009; engl. trans. The Typikon Decoded: An Explanation of Byzantine Liturgical Practice, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2012); La réforme liturgique du métropolite Cyprien de Kiev (Cerf, 2010; Greek trans.).
Rt. Rev. Jack Khalil
is professor of New Testament exegesis and Dean of St John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand (Lebanon). He studied theology at the University of Balamand, the Protestant Theological Faculty in Tübingen, before obtaining his doctorate in New Testament studies at the Theological School of the Aristotle University (Thessaloniki) (“Justification, Reconciliation and Last Judgment in St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans”, 2003; published in Greek, Thessaloniki, 2004). He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters. He has been a visiting professor at several institutions, including the University of Athens, the University of Thessaloniki, St. Serge Institute in Paris, Lebanese University, and the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. He is a member of the WCC Central Committee and of the Commission on Faith and Order.
Aristotle Papanikolaou
is professor of theology and the Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture at Fordham University (New York City). He received his PhD from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, where his advisor was David Tracy (1998). Among his publications are The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy (Notre Dame, 2012) and Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion (Notre Dame, 2006). He is the co-founder, at Fordham, of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center (2012).
Elisabeth Parmentier
is professor of practical theology at the University of Geneva’s Faculté de théologie. She previously taught at the University of Strasbourg. Her research interests are broad, ranging from feminist theologians (the subject of her doctorate, in 1996) to biblical hermeneutics, ecumenical theology, and the new forms of Church life. Among her monographs (besides numerous edited volumes and articles): L’Écriture vive. Interprétations chrétiennes de la Bible (Labor et Fides, 2004). (Co-edited:) Évangéliser: Approches oecuméniques et européennes (LIT, 2015). Her most recent book, on the theme of blessing, is titled: Cet étranger désir d’être bénis (Labor et Fides, 2020).
Henning Theißen
studied theology in Tübingen and Bonn. His doctorate focused on eschatology in modern Protestant theology since Schleiermacher, with a particular focus on Protestant theology’s vision of Judaism (Die evangelische Theologie und das Judentum, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004). His second thesis considered the theology of the cross (Die berufene Zeugin des Kreuzes Christi, 2012). His most recent book is titled Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe. Erträge der Theologie für Menschen heute (Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2021). He currently holds a temporary professorship in Systematic Theology at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
Marc Vial
is professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Strasbourg. He previously taught the history of medieval and reformatory theology at the University of Geneva. He has edited Calvin’s Confessio Genevensium praedicatorum de trinitate (Droz, 2002). His dissertation was published under the title Jean Gerson théoricien de la théologie mystique (Vrin, 2006), and he has translated a treatise of Gerson: Sur la théologie mystique (Vrin, 2008). His most recent book is: Pour une théologie de la toute-puissance de Dieu: L’approche d’Eberhard Jüngel (Classiques Garnier, 2016).
H.E. Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia (Ware)
has long been recognized as one of the foremost Orthodox theologians. He served as Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 2001. Among his many publications: The Orthodox Church (1963, 2nd rev. ed. 1993), The Orthodox Way (1979), and the translation, originally with G.E.H. Palmer and Philipp Sherrard, of the Philokalia (4 vol. published in 1979, 1982, 1986, 1999). His collected works have been published by St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (vol. 1: The Inner Kingdom, 2000; vol. 2: In the Image of the Trinity, to be published shortly).
Stavros Yangazoglou
graduated from the Faculty of Theology of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. He studied ecumenical theology at the Institut œcuménique de Bossey, medieval philosophy and theology at Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2005 he became a lecturer at the Hellenic Open University, in Athens. In 2017 he was elected assistant professor of dogmatics within the Department of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research has focused on the theology of Gregory Palamas, dogmatics, ecclesiology, systematic theology, as well as on contemporary Orthodox thinkers (Evdokimov, Lossky, Zizioulas). Among his publications (all published in Athens, in Greek): Communion of Theosis: The synthesis of Christology and Pneumatology in the work of Gregory Palamas (2001); The Communion of the Eschaton: Essays in Eschatological Ontology (2016); At the Borderline of Theology: Essays on the Dialogue between Theology and Culture (2017); Lectures in Dogmatic Theology: Hermeneutical Comments on the Creed (2021).
H.E. Metropolitan John of Pergamon (Zizioulas)
is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Orthodox theologians today. His work on the notion of personhood and communion (Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1985) has been read, received and discussed within Orthodox theology and beyond. Metr. John is an ordinary fellow of the Academy of Athens. He studied in Thessaloniki, Athens and at the Institute of Bossey before embarking in doctoral studies at Harvard University with Georges Florovsky. He has taught in Thessalonica, Athens, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Geneva, and King’s College (London). Other publications include his Communion and Otherness (T&T Clark, 2006), and Lectures in Christian Dogmatics (T&T Clark, 2008).