John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon

Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon

His Eminence John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon (b. 1930) is a modern theologian, Metropolitan of Pergamon, Greece, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He was consecrated as a bishop on June 22, 1986.

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Books

• Being and Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 1997)
• Eucharist, Bishop, Church: The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop During the First Three Centuries (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross, 2001)
• Communion & Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church (London: T & T Clark, 2007)

Studies

• Fox, Patricia A. God as Communion: John Zizioulas, Elizabeth Johnson, and the Retrieval of the Symbol of the Triune God (Michael Glazer, 2001)
• Knight, Douglas, ed. The Theology of John Zizioulas: Personhood and the Church (Ashgate, 2007)
• Papanikolaou, Aristotle. Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)

Academic Theological Criticism

• In his article titled Person versus Individual and Other Modern Misreadings of Gregory of Nyssa, by Lucian Turcescu, writer argues that there differences between patristic theology and theology of the John Zizioulas.

• Peter J. Leithart in his article Divine Energies and Orthodox Soteriology touches the work of Aristotle Papanikolaou, who points to differences between Vladimir Lossky and John Zizioulas on the issue of divine energies. Lossky's work is in Orthodoxy well established and widely accepted as contemporary synthesis of the patristic theology.

• In the book "Innovatory Theology of Metropolitan Zizioulas", by Rodoljub Lazic (In Serbian, ATOS - Missionary Center, Belgrade 2002), writer explains why he believes the work of Zizioulas differs from traditional Orthodoxy. He argues that there is a connection between Zizioulas' ecumenical orientation and his theology.

• In his letter, Archbishop Chrysostomos states: "...once we pass beyond the non-Orthodox, dated book by the eccentric British scholar D.M. Lang, who is quoted in the text that you sent me, as well as the mind-set of such Westernized theologians as Father John Meyendorff and Metropolitan John (Zizioulas), to the eminently Orthodox thought of Father Georges Florovsky (though Zizioulas was a student of Father Georges, his theological and philosophical thinking has deviated substantially from the Patristic principles set forth by his mentor), we see this matter in a clearer way." [1]

• In the September 1971 issue of the Newsletter Supplement to The Orthodox Christian Witness, in the article titled Concerning the Approaching Orthodox – Monophysite Union , John Zizioulas serves as an example of "muddled theologian". (Paragraph 21)

• Hieromonk Patapios in the article titled A Traditionalist Critique of The Orthodox Church, criticizing ecumenistic Baptismal theology, refers to John Zizioulas as to: "...lamentable Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon". (Part II, paragraph 27)

• In the interview by Maria Antoniadou, Archbishop Stylianos of Australia criticizes John Zizioulas for his stance, vis-à-vis Uniatism (with Rome) and asks if he (John Zizioulas) is addressing "...illiterate people or to those without a brain?" (See answer to the second question)

External links

• List of Works by John of Pergamon
• His Eminence John, Metropolitan of Pergamon from the Orthodox Research Institute
• Dogmatics notes - "These are the notes that were taken from the lessons of Professor I. Zizioulas (current Metropolitan of Pergamus and Chairman of the Athens Academy) at the Poemantic Division of the Thessaloniki University's School of Theology, during the academic year 1984-1985. They are published with the blessing and the permission of the reverend Metropolitan."
• The Holy and Sacred Synod
• John Zizioulas (Wikipedia)
• Resources for Christian Theology: John Zizioulas
• Page with many dogmatic treatises written by H.G. John Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon

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