Protopresbyter Theodoros Zisis. Birth and Evolution of the Post-Patristic Battle against the Fathers. (Part I)

Translation into Russian by hieromonk Silouan (Yaroslavtsev)

Abstract

Honorary Professor of the University of Athens, protopresbyter Theodore Zisis (b. 1941) is the author of a number of important theological studies, including the book «Ukrainian Autocephaly. The anti-canonical and schismatic invasion of Constantinople» (Thessaloniki, 2019). He is known to the Russian reader for his unequivocal position in support of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and criticism of the so-called «Pan-Orthodox» Cretan Council of 2016, ignored by the Russian Orthodox Church. The article now offered is a translation from English of a report by an emeritus Professor at an international conference entitled «Patristic Theology and Post-Patristic Heresy», organized in Greece by the Metropoly of Piraeus in 2012. The publication of protopresbyter Theodore Zisis is intended to reconsider, on patristic grounds, modern popular theological trends in Greek theology, especially the so-called «post-patristic» theology and provides an analysis of the history of the Greek Church from the point of view of the co-relationship between patristic and «post-patristic» elements in its theology.