Books by Dimitrios Moschos
Σχολιασμένη παράθεση βιβλιογραφικών τίτλων, διακρινόμενων σε πηγές και δευτερεύουσα βιβλιογραφία,... more Σχολιασμένη παράθεση βιβλιογραφικών τίτλων, διακρινόμενων σε πηγές και δευτερεύουσα βιβλιογραφία, που αφορούν την ιστορία του χριστιανισμού από τις απαρχές του έως σήμερα. Η παράθεση χωρίζεται σε 21 κεφάλαια, ανάλογα με ιστορικές περιόδους (οι πρώτοι τρεις αιώνες, 4ος, 5ος και 6ος και κατόπιν μεσαιωνική, μεσοβυζαντινή, υστεροβυζαντινή, ύστερη μεσαιωνική κ.λπ. έως τον 20ό αιώνα χωριστά), ενώ παρατίθενται ξεχωριστά κεφάλαια για τον σλαβικό και τον εξωευρωπαϊκό χριστιανισμό και την ιστορία της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος. Προηγείται μεθοδολογική εισαγωγή που περιλαμβάνει ιστορία του αντικειμένου της ιστορίας του χριστιανισμού, εισαγωγή στα βοηθήματα (instrumenta studiorum) και οδηγίες χρήσης τους για τη μελέτη ενός ιστορικού προβλήματος. Το δεύτερο μέρος αριθμεί τις πηγές ανά κεφάλαιο, με υποδιαιρέσεις αν τα έργα ανήκουν στον ίδιο συγγραφέα ή σε ίδια γραμματολογική ή θεματική κατηγορία. Οι τίτλοι της δευτερεύουσας βιβλιογραφίας επίσης αριθμούνται αυτοτελώς με το γράμμα Δ (=δευτερεύουσα). Θεματικά δίνεται έμφαση στον ορθόδοξο χριστιανισμό και προτάσσονται πηγές και δευτερεύουσα βιβλιογραφία που είναι στα ελληνικά. Κατά τα άλλα η βιβλιογραφία έχει επιλεγεί με κριτήριο το πόσο έχει επηρεάσει την εγχώρια και τη διεθνή έρευνα. Προσβάσιμο στο http://hdl.handle.net/11419/12752
An open access annotated presentation of bibliographical titles in Greek that cover the history of christianity from its beginnings to the present day. The titles are classified to sources and secondary literature, and they are divided to 21 chapters according to chronological criteria (a chapter for the first three centuries, the 4th, 5th, 6th c., and chapters for medieval, middle-byzantine, late-byzantine, late-medieval era, etc. until the 20th c.), while there are chapters for the Slavic and the non-european christianity as well as for the orthodox church of Greece (chapter 21). Before the 21 chapters there is a first part which contains a methodological introduction to the history of christianity in two chapters: one for the history of the object of history of christianity and a second for an introduction to bibliographical tools (instrumenta studiorum) together with instructions of their use in order to deal with a historical problem. The second part enumerates the sources in a numerical series independently for each chapter, while there is a subclassification number in case of bigger unities (e.g. works of a single writer, genres such as Saints’ Lives etc.). The titles of the secondary sources are enumerated with the designation of Delta (=Deuterevousa, Greek for secondary). The focus of the whole literature collection lies on the orthodox christianity (trying to cover all other forms and areas of christianity also) and the sources and the secondary literature being treated take into consideration the greek public. Yet, the overall criterion of the selection of the literature is the impact on the indigenous and the international state of art.
The problem of the souls of the spheres from the byzantine commentaries on AristotLe through the ... more The problem of the souls of the spheres from the byzantine commentaries on AristotLe through the Arabs and St. Thomas to Kopier, DOP 16 (1962), 60-01. Zakythinos, Crise: D. Zakythinos, Crise monétaire et crise économique à •Dyzanco du XIITo au XVe siècle, L' Hellénisme Contemporain, Athènes 1918. Βιβλιογραφία at (".Ιδικά θέματα παρατίθεται μέ πλήρη στοιχεία στίς οικείες Οποοημειώσεις.
Published in German.
Different approaches have been taken towards the emergence of early monasti... more Published in German.
Different approaches have been taken towards the emergence of early monasticism in Egypt. One of its distinctive features is its variety of organizational forms, its theology, spirituality and social functions. Was this variety the result of social needs or merely a development of theological ideas? In this work, the author provides a purely historical examination of different kinds of sources in order to focus on how a paradoxical idea inherent in Christian thinking, the anticipation of God's kingdom on earth, interacts with various challenges of its environment. The outcome is a multidimensional development of new identities which enable a better understanding of the religious transformation in Egypt in the 4th century.
Papers by Dimitrios Moschos
P. Kitromilides (ed.), Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox World, [Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment], Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, p. 63-72., 2016
In 1782, a heavy folio volume was published in Greek in the city of Venice, under the title Philo... more In 1782, a heavy folio volume was published in Greek in the city of Venice, under the title Philokalia ton ieron niptikon [Love of beauty by the Holy Neptic Fathers], containing about 1207 pages of works by thirty-six spiritual ascetic Church writers. Behind the only name that appears in this book, that of Ioannis Mavrokordatos who financed the project, are hidden the two editors and collectors of these texts: Macarios Notaras (1731-1805), formerly bishop of Corinth (the elder master); and his young assistant, Nicodimos Hagiorite (that is, of the Holy Mountain, 1749-1809). They were both later canonised as saints and were associated with the group known collectively as the Kollyvades. The nickname 'Kollyvades' is derived from the word kollyva, meaning the boiled wheat eaten at 'mnimosyna', or memorial services for the dead. The Kollyvades, who lived mainly on the Holy Mountain of Athos and sought to uphold an exact observance of the holy canons and liturgical rules, insisted that such services should be celebrated on the appropriate day, Saturday, and not on Sunday, as was commonly done. The debate that escalated into an open conflict among the monks on Mount Athos commenced in 1754. 1 The opponents of the Kollyvades, Vissarion of Rapsani and Theodoretos from Ioannina, accused them of introducing a schism into the monasteries and they eventually drove the patriarch of Constantinople, Sophronios II (1774-1780), to condemn some of them in 1776. After a Confession of Faith and letters of apology submitted by many leaders of the Kollyvades to the patriarchate, they achieved their rehabilitation about 1785, but the debate continued on Mount Athos after the publication of the first edition of the canonical collection
Politics, Society and Culture in Orthodox Theology in a Global Age, 2022
This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Orthodoxes Forum
A confluence of eschatological ideas lies behind the Greek Revolution of 1821 and the foundation ... more A confluence of eschatological ideas lies behind the Greek Revolution of 1821 and the foundation of the modern Greek state. This article follows the role of this idea during the Revolution and after that, as different political strategies and political parties are formed after 1830. The function of the eschatological/millenarian currents explain many aspects of Greek policy until 1920 at least, and suggest the idea that the whole project of the creation of modern Greece bears a notion of a realized theological/political utopia.
Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann/ Raimondo Tocci/ Martin Marko Vucetic (ed.), Anekdota Byzantina. Studien zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur. Festschrift für Albrecht Berger anlässlich seines 65.Geburtstages, Berlin u.a.2023, 469-488, 2023
The Council in Trullo (or in later sources Quinisext), which was convoked by Justinian II and too... more The Council in Trullo (or in later sources Quinisext), which was convoked by Justinian II and took place in 691/2 in the dome hall of the imperial palace of Constantinople, is remarkable for many reasons. It is deemed ecumenical in the universal history of Christianity, but is not enumerated separately as such. It did not discuss any doctrinal issue, a duty which was, before and after, the main task of a council. It produced solely a universal corpus of canons which became pivotal for many aspects of the lives of Christians. It had a very complicated history of reception by the Roman Catholic Church, and has been regarded by many modern historians as the main factor of a "Byzantinization" of Eastern Christianity which ruined relations with other versions of Christianity in the Orient. It is no wonder this council has become the object of considerable scholarly discussion. This discussion focused in previous decades mainly on issues that interest theologians and experts on the theological dialogue between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches. Such issues include the acknowledgement of the Council by the Catholic Church, the canons on the marital status of the clergy, and especially bishops' celibacy. Other issues addressed are liturgical practices and the everyday life of Christians in Byzantium or the encounter with (alias, suppression of) the customs of Armenian Christianity and relations with the Jews. Nevertheless, this research activity concerns mainly the canonical output of the Council.1 The 1995 volume edited by George Nedungatt and Michael Featherstone provided an English translation of the texts.2 Heinz Ohme performed more detailed critical work on the Council itself. He prepared the standard edition of all texts related to the Council (Address, Canons and signatures),3 after previously making other essential remarks about the procedure of the council in his edition of the signatures, which
, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (επιμ.), Ἐπίσημοι λόγοι, Πρυτανεία Μελετίου-Ἀθανασίου Κ. Δημοπούλου, τ, 38, Ἀκαδημαϊκά ἔτη 2020-2022, Β΄ μέρος, Ἀθήνα, 2023
Λόγος που εκφωνήθηκε στην εορτή των Τριών Ιεραρχών του ΕΚΠΑ στις 30.1.2022. Η ελληνική παιδεία ει... more Λόγος που εκφωνήθηκε στην εορτή των Τριών Ιεραρχών του ΕΚΠΑ στις 30.1.2022. Η ελληνική παιδεία εισάγεται ως πλαίσιο στο ευαγγελικό κήρυγμα και την εκκλησιαστική δράση των Τριών Ιεραρχών, όχι μόνο ως ρητορεία, φιλοσοφία ή αισθητική, αλλά πρωτίστως ως πολιτική λειτουργία (μέσα από τους θεσμούς και τις λειτουργίες της ελληνορωμαϊκής πόλης) την οποία οι Τρεις Ιεράρχες ανακαινίζουν εισάγοντας την εσχατολογική αξία της ουράνιας μέλλουσας πόλης στις κοινωνικές σχέσεις των ανθρώπων, κατανοώντας "ηθικές" επιταγές του Ευαγγελίου, όπως τη δικαιοσύνη, τη φιλανθρωπία ή την άσκηση πολιτικά χαρακτηριστικά.
Epeteris Theologikes Scholes Panepistemiou Athenon, 2022
Greek-roman political thinkinG and the emerGence of the monastic movement in 4th c. c.e. by dimit... more Greek-roman political thinkinG and the emerGence of the monastic movement in 4th c. c.e. by dimitrios moschos assoc. prof. dr. theol.-habil.
Δεν διατίθεται περίληψη στα ελληνικάThe article constitutes a critical to the argument of Thanos ... more Δεν διατίθεται περίληψη στα ελληνικάThe article constitutes a critical to the argument of Thanos Lipowatz [GPSR 2, (October 1993)], which causally links Orthodox Christianity with the premodern character of political institutions in contemporary Greek.society. According to Lipowatz, the notion of the «passive change» of the world as well as the «totalitarianism» of the medieval community in the East were the intellectual and cultural products of Orthodox Christianity.In contrast to these views, this article argues that Orthodox Christianity served as a counterweight to the totalitarian, Roman-Hellenistic, imperial idea and gradually gained political power through church council structures. Through the labour ethics of monasticism and the social criticism of the Church Fathers, Orthodox Christianity came to conceive of the process of change in the world as «active» rather than «passive».Lipovatz’s contention that Christian love interpreted in a neoplatonic- gnostic manner prevented t...
Studia Patristica. Vol. CIV - Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019, 2021
Ελληνική Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής Επιστήμης, 2017
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church
Istina, 2010
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Σ. Ζουμπουλάκη/P. Salembier (ἐπιμ.), Sources Chrétiennes Ἑλληνική καί λατινική συμβολή στόν εὐρωπαϊκό πολιτισμό – Apport grec et latin à la culture européenne, Άθήνα, 249-271, 2019
The paper explores the reception of the Evagrian work in the Church history of Middle East during... more The paper explores the reception of the Evagrian work in the Church history of Middle East during the "long 6th century" (that is after the Council of Chalcedon until the first decades of 7th century). This is a period of a (partly forced) end of Christological controversies and of a turn to immediate issues of everyday "theology" (relation of the soul to the body, intercessory role of saints after their death, position of mere pious Christians "praktikoi" in comparison to advanced ascetical saints "theoretikoi" etc.) The turbulent emergence of an Evagrian party, many years after the end of Evagrius himself, can be explained against this background.
Misericordia e perdono : atti del XXIII Convegno ecumenico internazionale di spiritualità ortodossa : Bose, 9-12 settembre 2015 , 2016
The idea of mercy in the Life and Teachings of St Pachomius is examined primarily through an anal... more The idea of mercy in the Life and Teachings of St Pachomius is examined primarily through an analysis of his epistles which reflect his original thinking compared with the different versions of his Vitae. The basic conclusion is that the idea of mercy in monastic life derives from the prolongation of the mercy that was bestowed upon us from the Cross and must be elaborated in the organized coenobitic life which is meant to reveal the New Jerusalem on earth. Mercy is therefore basically an eschatologically founded idea. It consists an originality of Pachomian thinking stemming mainly from Judeochristian circles, who seem to be behind Pachom and marking the possibility of living an eschatological experience through vita active.
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Books by Dimitrios Moschos
An open access annotated presentation of bibliographical titles in Greek that cover the history of christianity from its beginnings to the present day. The titles are classified to sources and secondary literature, and they are divided to 21 chapters according to chronological criteria (a chapter for the first three centuries, the 4th, 5th, 6th c., and chapters for medieval, middle-byzantine, late-byzantine, late-medieval era, etc. until the 20th c.), while there are chapters for the Slavic and the non-european christianity as well as for the orthodox church of Greece (chapter 21). Before the 21 chapters there is a first part which contains a methodological introduction to the history of christianity in two chapters: one for the history of the object of history of christianity and a second for an introduction to bibliographical tools (instrumenta studiorum) together with instructions of their use in order to deal with a historical problem. The second part enumerates the sources in a numerical series independently for each chapter, while there is a subclassification number in case of bigger unities (e.g. works of a single writer, genres such as Saints’ Lives etc.). The titles of the secondary sources are enumerated with the designation of Delta (=Deuterevousa, Greek for secondary). The focus of the whole literature collection lies on the orthodox christianity (trying to cover all other forms and areas of christianity also) and the sources and the secondary literature being treated take into consideration the greek public. Yet, the overall criterion of the selection of the literature is the impact on the indigenous and the international state of art.
Different approaches have been taken towards the emergence of early monasticism in Egypt. One of its distinctive features is its variety of organizational forms, its theology, spirituality and social functions. Was this variety the result of social needs or merely a development of theological ideas? In this work, the author provides a purely historical examination of different kinds of sources in order to focus on how a paradoxical idea inherent in Christian thinking, the anticipation of God's kingdom on earth, interacts with various challenges of its environment. The outcome is a multidimensional development of new identities which enable a better understanding of the religious transformation in Egypt in the 4th century.
Papers by Dimitrios Moschos
An open access annotated presentation of bibliographical titles in Greek that cover the history of christianity from its beginnings to the present day. The titles are classified to sources and secondary literature, and they are divided to 21 chapters according to chronological criteria (a chapter for the first three centuries, the 4th, 5th, 6th c., and chapters for medieval, middle-byzantine, late-byzantine, late-medieval era, etc. until the 20th c.), while there are chapters for the Slavic and the non-european christianity as well as for the orthodox church of Greece (chapter 21). Before the 21 chapters there is a first part which contains a methodological introduction to the history of christianity in two chapters: one for the history of the object of history of christianity and a second for an introduction to bibliographical tools (instrumenta studiorum) together with instructions of their use in order to deal with a historical problem. The second part enumerates the sources in a numerical series independently for each chapter, while there is a subclassification number in case of bigger unities (e.g. works of a single writer, genres such as Saints’ Lives etc.). The titles of the secondary sources are enumerated with the designation of Delta (=Deuterevousa, Greek for secondary). The focus of the whole literature collection lies on the orthodox christianity (trying to cover all other forms and areas of christianity also) and the sources and the secondary literature being treated take into consideration the greek public. Yet, the overall criterion of the selection of the literature is the impact on the indigenous and the international state of art.
Different approaches have been taken towards the emergence of early monasticism in Egypt. One of its distinctive features is its variety of organizational forms, its theology, spirituality and social functions. Was this variety the result of social needs or merely a development of theological ideas? In this work, the author provides a purely historical examination of different kinds of sources in order to focus on how a paradoxical idea inherent in Christian thinking, the anticipation of God's kingdom on earth, interacts with various challenges of its environment. The outcome is a multidimensional development of new identities which enable a better understanding of the religious transformation in Egypt in the 4th century.
in Eastern Mediterranean (6th-7th c.)
The evolution of funeral rites of the Christian Church from a short and simple series of prayers in the name of the whole community during Late Antiquity to a sophisticated complex of elements of monastic matins, psalms, litanies etc. after the 8th c. is depicted in Byzantine euchologia preserved mainly in Southern Italy. Apart from the obvious factors of that evolution located in the growing importance of the monastic elements and of the ecclesiastical centers of Jerusalem and Constantinople one can also detect in that evolution an apparent turn in the attitude of the average believer which can be traced and analyzed in the text of Kontakia and Canons composed after the end of 6th c. There, we find the voice of the remaining pious individuals who wonder about the mystery of death, the fate of the soul etc expressed through dramatic exhortations and fictional dialogues between the departed, the community and specific holy figures. All this complies with general remarks concerning the liturgical changes after the 6th c. discussed in the modern research (e.g. Derek Krueger) and can be further explained through the heated discussion about the nature of the post-mortal world at the end of 6th c. and the general stress caused by the radical changes in civic life and the religious and geopolitical landscape, like the decadence of late antique cities, natural disasters or the Islamic conquests and raids by the Slavs.