STAVROS YANGAZOGLOU

Editorial Director of the Journal Θεολογία/Theologia, 2009-2016

Stavros Yangazoglou was born in Drama, in 1962, where he received his secondary education. In 1984, he graduated from the Faculty of Theology of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki; he studied Ecumenical Theology at the Institut Oecuménique de Bossey, Medieval Philosophy and Theology at Fribourg in Switzerland; he was awarded a Th.D. in systematic theology; he is a member of the Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses (since 2008);  since 2005 he teaches Systematic Theology at the Hellenic Open University, in Athens; from 2009 to 2016 he was the director of the journal Theologia. He serves as consultant at the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs and he was Director of Research at the Institute of Educational Policy in Athens (2003-2017). In 2017 he was elected Assistant Professor of Dogmatics at the School of Theology, Department of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, while in March 2022 he was elected Associate Professor of the same Department; his research has focused on the theology of Gregory Palamas, Dogmatics, Ecclesiology, Systematic Theology, as well as on contemporary Orthodox thinkers (Evdokimov, Lossky, Zizioulas). He is a member of the Conference of European Churches’ Thematic Group on Ecclesiology & Mission representing the Church of Greece (since 2020). Yangazoglou is the author of the following books: Communion of Theosis, The synthesis of Christology and Pneumatology in the Work of Gregory Palamas (Domos, Athens, 2001, in Greek); The Communion of the Eschaton: Essays in Eschatological Ontology (Athens: Indictos Publications, 2016, in Greek); Life and Discourse in the Hesychast Controversy. Essays in Theological Epistemology (Athens: Domos Publications, 2016, in Greek); At the borderline of Theology. Essays on the Dialogue between Theology and Culture (Athens: Domos Publications, 2018, in Greek); Lectures in Dogmatic Theology (Domos, Athens 2021); Theology and Culture (Gutenberg, Athens 2021).