Hellenism and Christianity
the question of history, the person and his freedom according to John Zizioulas
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This article presents a theological study devoted to the thought of John Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon, on the encounter between Hellenism and Christianity. It is an excerpt from a larger work on Zizioulasian personalist ontology. The author analyzes the way in which Zizioulas articulates three interdependent problematics: the relationship between truth and history in Jewish, Hellenic, and Christian contexts; the ontological opposition between Hellenic and biblical worldviews concerning the God-world relationship; and the anthropological implications of the Greek "closed ontology" for the concepts of *prosōpon* and *persona*. The central contribution lies in the demonstration that the notion of person, inaccessible to an ontology of necessity, can receive an ontological foundation only from the patristic dialectic between created and uncreated, which substitutes an ontology of freedom for the closed cosmology of Antiquity.
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