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Volume 95 (2024)
Volume 95, Issue 1, January-March 2024

PROCEEDINGS
of the International Conference
on the Centenary of the Journal Θεολογία

Orthodox Theology in via
in the "Dematerialized Reality" of Late Modernity

Athens, 11-14 October 2023

I


1. Frond cover
2. Frond sheet [1-2]
3. Contents [3-6]
4. Introductory Note [7-9]
5. Opening Ceremony, Programme [11-12]
6. Alexandros Katsiaras, Introductory Reflections [13-15]
7. Proclamation of the opening of the Conference proceedings, From His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople [17-19]
8. Greetings οf Her Excellency the President of the Republic Madame Katerina Sakellaropoulou, [21-22]
9. Greetings οf His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Mr. Hieronymos, [23-25]
10. Keynote Lecture Chrysostomos Stamoulis, From the Material to the Immaterial World: How Did We Get Here? [27-47]
11. Session I, Programme, Reading and Interpreting the Patristic Tradition Nowadays [49-50]
12. Miltiades Konstantinou, The Unity of the Old and New Testament as a Prerequisite for an Orthodox Hermeunetic of the Bible: Traditional and Modern Hermeneutics in Dialogue [51-65]
13. fr. Sergio Mainoldi, The Ultimate Theomachia: Patristics Struggle against Gnosticism as a Key of Understanding Contemporary Integral Transhumanism [67-77]
14. Paul Gavrilyuk, Three Twentieth-Century Retrievals of Patristic Theology: Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, and Alexander Schmemann [79-88]
15. Paul Ladouceur, Tradition Patristic Theology and Traditionalism in Modern Orthodoxy [89-107]
16. Session II, Programme, Orthodox Theology in the Face of the Challenges of History: Does the Past predetermine the Future? [109-110]
17. Dimitrios Moschos, Church History in the Intellectual Landscape of Post-Modernity [111-124]
18. Edward Siecienski, Dogmatic History as an Ecumenical Task [125-135]
19. Vasilios N. Makrides, Orthodox Christianity between Modernity and Postmodernity: A Critical Overview of a Multifaceted Topic [137-161]
20. Session III, Programme, Orthodox Theology Nowadays [163-164]
21. Assaad Elias Kattan, Scripture/Tradition – Method – Freedom: Orthodox Theology Challenged by Hermeneutics [165-182]
22. Charalambos Ventis, Orthodoxy and Reflective Thinking: a Steep but Feasible Theological Venture [183-198]
23. Stylianos Tsompanidis, The Necessity of Ιncarnation: The Contribution of Orthodox Theology to the Ecumenical Process towards a Just and Sustainable Society [199-210]
24. Session IV, Programme, Divine Worship in the Age of Digital Reality [211-212]
25. Basilius J. Bert Groen, Interactive Web 2.0 and “Liturgy from Below” [213-222]
26. H. G. Maxim Bishop of Los Angeles and Western America, Existential Truth in Virtual Communication? Exploring Metropolitan John Zizioulas’ Theological Insights [223-240]
27. fr. Stephanos Alexopoulos, Divine Worship between Theology Piety and Digital Reality: Some Thoughts and Concerns [241-258]
28. Session V, Programme, A Brave New “Digital” World: Is There Any “Good” in it? [259-260]
29. H. E. Hierotheos (Vlachos), Metr. of Nafpaktos and Hagios Vlassios Theological Discourse between ‘Dematerialised Reality’ and Materialism [261-281]
30. Konstantinos Th. Petsios, Viewing the World as a Vision: Towards a New Meta-Physics? [283-292]
31. Session VI, Programme, The “Imago Dei” in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology [293-294]
32. Panayiotis Christias, Power “Artificial Intelligence” and “Decision” [295-305]
33. Aristotle Tymbas, Technology Capitalism History: The Enduring Desire for an Artificial Intelligence the Accumulating Suffering of the Creatures of Nature [307-314]
34. Mariyan Stoyadinov, Technology and Alienation [315-327]
35. Session VII, Programme, Ecclesiological Challenges of the Postmodern World [329-330]
36. fr. Radu Bordeianu, The Ecclesiology of the Parish in the Digital Age [331-342]
37. David Heith-Stade, Beyond Autocephaly: Models of the Regional Church in the Canonical Tradition [343-366]
38. H. E. Gregorios (Papathomas) Metropolitan of Peristerion, Church an “Eschatological” Manifestation of Another Reality at the Material and Intangible Post-Modernity [367-388]
39. Editorial Policy [392]
40. Back cover


Volume 95, Ιssue 2, April-June 2024

PROCEEDINGS
of the International Conference
on the Centenary of the Journal Θεολογία

Orthodox Theology in via
in the "Dematerialized Reality" of Late Modernity

Athens, 11-14 October 2023

II

1. Frond cover
2. Frond sheet [1-2]
3. Contents [3-6]
4. Session VIIΙ Programme, A Brave New “Digital” World: Is There any “Good” in it? (IΙ) [7-8]
5. Christos Ath. Terezis, Terms for Reading the Alienating Interventions of Modern Technology in Personal and Collective Life according to Jean François Lyotard [9-22]
6. H. E. Metropolitan of Krini Kyrillos (Katerelos), Material and Digital Reality in the World of Religions [23-34]
7. Calliope Rigopoulou, Art, Technology and Image [35-53]
8. Special Lecture, [55-56]
9. Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos, The Techno-Pithecus and Truth: Is a Respective Modern Hermeneutics of Orthodox Theology Possible? [57-73]

Parallel Sessions

10. Parallel Session I.1, Programme [75-76]
11. Theophilos Ambatzidis, The Demand for Human Upgrading as a Challenge to Christian Anthropology [77-99]
12. Achilleas Dellopoulos, Contemporary Human Being not as a Meta-Human but as a Natural Human Being in Christ: The Contribution of Orthodox Theology [101-116]
13. Demetrios K. Choïlous, “Come, Let us Build ourselves a City, with a Tower that Reaches to the Heavens” (Gen. 11, 4). Artificial Intelligence and the Person: Evolution or Hubris? [117-128]
14. George Kounnousiis, The Modern Man in the Digital Era: Anonymous Individual or Named Personhood? [129-141]
15. Parallel Session I.2, Programme [143-144]
16. Panayiotis Thoma, From the Immateriality of Mediated Communication to Psychosomatic Methexis. Hints about the Importance of Incarnation in Contemporary Culture [145-156]
17. Dionysios Skliris, Consciousness, Intelligence and Corporeality in Contemporary Digital Technology: Tracing the Mystery of Personhood in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [157-173]
18. Ioannis Koutsousimos, The Time of Man the “Place” of Godman [175-183]
19. Spyridon-Ioannis Vougiouklakis, Artificial Intelligence in the Face of the Orthodox Approach to the Concept of the Person [185-208]
20. Parallel Session I.3, Programme [209-210]
21. Konstantinos P. Kotsiopoulos, Multiple Modernity? Late Modernity or Postmodernity? Sociological and Theological Ambiguities [211-219]
22. Kerassenia Papalexiou, The Artful Wisdom of Athena in the Myth of Prometheus vs. the Technical Spirit of Late Modernity [221-231]
23. Konstantinos Siomos, Technologies of the Future and their Effects on Society and Human Behaviour [233-237]
24. Ioannis Xidakis, Digital Religion: Religion in the Neomythological Worlds of Video Games [239-253]
25. Parallel Session I.4, Programme [255-256]
26. Vasileios A. Tsigkos, Man as “Whole” in Orthodox Theology and Life (Response to the Challenges of the Digital Age) [257-270]
27. Vasileios D. Christodoulakis, Genetically Engineered Salvation? From Jürgen Habermas to Gregory of Nyssa [271-292]
28. Maria Pazarski, Man as God’s Creation and Artificial Intelligence [293-306]
29. Stavros S. Fotiou, An Ecclesiastical Dystopia: the Possibility of a Digital Church without a Physical Presence [307-318]
30. Parallel Session I.5, Programme [319-320]
31. Georgios Steiris, Τhe Anthropological Challenges of Posthumanism [321-335]
32. Ioannis Mastrogeorgiou, Artificial Intelligence: an Attempt to Understand... [337-341]
33. Dimitrios Th. Orphanidis, Homo Sapiens or Cyborg Sapiens? Fourth Industrial or First Biotechnological “Revolution”? The Elucidation of a new Mythology [343-362]
34. Editorial Policy [368]
35. Back cover


Volume 95 (2024)
Volume 95, Issue 1, January-March 2024

PROCEEDINGS
of the International Conference
on the Centenary of the Journal Θεολογία

Orthodox Theology in via
in the “Dematerialized Reality” of Late Modernity

Athens, 11-14 October 2023

III

1. Frond cover
2. Frond sheet [1-2]
3. Contents [3-6]
4. Parallel Session II.1, Programme [7-8]
5. H.E. Nikolaos (Chatzinikolaou), Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki, Artificial Technology (ChatGPT): Bioethical and Theological Speculations [9-25]
6. Konstantinos I. Belezos, Chatting with an AI Machine about Orthodox Theology [27-48]
7. Apostolos Nikolaidis, Contemporary Technology as Religious Substitute [49-58]
8. Parallel Session, II.2 Programme [59-60]
9. Antonis Smyrnaios, Scientific Imaginary vs. Orthodox Theology:Convergence Coexistence or Counterpoint? [61-84]
10. Archim. Amphilochios Miltos, The Realization of the Church in the Age of Dematerialized Reality [85-104]
11. Triantafyllos Boltetsos, The Pastoral Care of the Church in Late Modernity [105-125]
12. Makis Andronopoulos, The Invisible Side of Technology in Public Space and the Shadowing of Democracy. The Role of the Church in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [127-133]
13. Parallel Session II.3 Programme, [135-136]
14. Petros A. Panagiotopoulos, Theological and Philosophical Considerationsfor the Use of Digital Technologies in the Parish Context [137-148]
15. Antonis Touloumis & Katerina Michalopoulou, The Orthodox Worshiping Experience: The Encounter of the Spatial and Temporal Dimension of Corporeality with Immaterial Reality [149-161]
16. Viktoria Panteri, The Return of the Dead in Virtual-Digital Life as “Psychosomatic Resurrection” [163-186]
17. Parallel Session, II.4 Programme [187-188]
18 Georgios D. Panagopoulos, The Dystopic Eschatology of N. F. Fyodorov and the Modern Futurological Techno-Worship under the Light of Orthodox Theology [189-204]
19. Dimitrios Oulis, “Not without my Cell Phone”: Preliminary Reflections to a Communicative Theological Anthropology [205-221]
20. Rev. Augustinos Bairachtaris, The Autonomy of Human Nature against the Hidden God: Post-Modernity, Scientific Evolution and Faith [223-244]
21. Parallel Session, II.5 Programme [245-246]
22. Anna Koltsiou-Nikita, The Texts of the Orthodox Church in Digital Form: Consequences, Challenges, Reflections [247-261]
23. Mando Malamou, With the Ring of Gyges during the Difficult Adolescence of the 21st Century: The Effects of Technological Progress on Impressionable Adolescents [263-276]
24. Irene Christinaki, The Two Vienna Manifestos (1929, 2019) and the Question of Robotic Behaviour [277-295]
25. Session IX Programme, Faith and Science: Re-Approaches and Redefinitions [297-298]
26. Dr. Gayle E. Woloschak, Science and Theology: Perspectives for the Future [299-310]
27. Christos Christodoulou, Is Science Neutral? [311-318]
28. Vassilis Karapostolis, When Consciousness is Tempted by Sight [319-325]
29. Session X Programme, Theology in Front of the Ontological and Ethical Dilemmas of Technology [327-328]
30. Theophanis Tasis, Artificial Intelligence and Human Values [329-338]
31. Stavroula Tsinorema, Are There and Why Should There Be, Moral Limits to the Use of Scientific Advances and Technologies? [339-348]
32. Dimitrios Bekridakis, Deus est Machina: Religion and Theology in the Age of Deus Technologicus [349-357]
33. Zambia Agrimaki, Beyond Good and Bad Usage: The “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” (?) of Science Fiction Narratives [359-378]
34. End of Conference H.G. Philotheos (Theocharis), bishop of Oreoi (now Metropolitan of Thessaloniki), Conference Concluding Remarks [379-382]
35. Alexandros Katsiaras, Epilogue, [383-386]
36. Editorial Policy [388]
37. Back cover