In memoriam Panayotis Nellas

This article is a commemorative text written by Olivier Clément upon the death of the Greek theologian Panayotis Nellas (1936-1986), a regular contributor to the journal *Contacts*. It takes the form of an intellectual eulogy and traces Nellas's theological and human journey. The main idea is that Nellas embodied a lay Orthodox theology that was creative and open, rejecting both the moralism of religious brotherhoods and the narrow Hellenocentrism of certain neo-patristic thinkers. The article highlights his two main areas of research: a spirituality for laypeople grounded in Nicolas Cabasilas, and a unitary anthropology that valorizes corporeality drawing on Maximus the Confessor. It also underscores his founding role in the Greek journal *Synaxi*. The contribution of this text lies in situating Nellas within the Greek Orthodox theological renewal of the twentieth century and in providing an assessment of his published work.