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Apostolos Makrakis

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[[Image:Makrakis.JPG|right|thumb|230px| Apostolos Makrakis 1831-1905: Greek theologian, preacher, ethicist, philosopher and writer.]]
==Life==
Apostolos Makrakis was a charismatic lay theologian gifted with many talents and a leader of the ''awakening movement'' in [[w:Greek War of Independence|post-revolutionary Greece]]. He finished his secondary school training in his birthplace and later studied in Constantinople, where he worked for a short time as a teacher and published his first treatises. Being a person of strong character and with a disposition towards vigorous inspection of things, he came to a collision course with the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] and with the parents of his students, the grounds being his teaching of frequent [[Eucharist|communion]].
In 1862 he went to Paris, where he worked as a private tutor, remaining there for two years and learning about modern European philosophy up to Hegel. His defensive disposition was expressed quickly with the writing in French of four treatises against Western (and especially Cartesian) philosophy, and in favour of Christianity. After a brief trip to Athens, he returned in 1865 to Constantinople, where he continued his work for a year, and in 1866 he settled permanently in Athens, where he also reposed.
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