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Theology \ Faculty \
Aristotle Papanikolaou
 Associate Professor
Co-founding Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Program
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in Theology at Lincoln Center
Lowenstein Building, Rm. 924F
113 W. 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
(212)-636-6249
papanikolaou@fordham.edu
(Expanded CV)
B.A., Theology, Fordham University (1988)
M.Div., Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (1991)
Ph.D., Theology, University of Chicago (1998)
Systematic Theology: Eastern Orthodox theology; Trinitarian Theology
My on-going research interests include contemporary Orthodox theology (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and trinitarian theology. An E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Grant has allowed me to move forward on a project that relates generally to theological anthropology, and which specifically explores the relevancy of truth-telling (confession) for understanding what it means to be human. The project is interdisciplinary and focuses on the affective affect of truth-telling; that is, the impact of truth-telling on the landscape of human emotions and desires, and how such an impact is conditioned by the presence or absence of a particular listener. As a theological anthropology, I am interested in the question of how truth-telling can illuminate understandings of sin, the communication of grace, a relational understanding of personhood, and the Orthodox notion of theosis. I intend also to examine the political implications of my theological analysis of truth-telling as part of my participation as Senior Fellow on the Christian Jurisprudence Project at the Center for Law and Religion at Emory University.
I continue as Co-Founder/Director of LOGOS: An Interdisciplinary Forum of Orthodox Scholars. The group meets twice a year to collaborate on projects that bridge the gap between academic and ecclesial discourses and increase the public voice of Orthodox scholars in the larger academy. Our first book, Thinking through Faith: New Perspectives from Orthodox Christian Scholars, was recently published by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. The group is presently working on a book on war and peace in the Orthodox tradition.
Along with George Demacopoulos, I am a Co-Founding Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Program at Fordham, which currently comprises an interdisciplinary minor in Orthodox Christian Studies, the annual Orthodoxy in America Lecture, and a triennial conference dedicated to a historical and theological analysis of the Orthodox/Catholic rift. The proceedings of the first conference, Orthodox Readings of Augustine, which took place in June of 2007, were published in Fall 2008 with St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.
Publications
Book
Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
The central task of this book is an analysis of the relation between apophaticism, trinitarian theology, and divine-human communion through a critical comparison of the trinitarian theologies of the Eastern Orthodox theologians, Vladimir Lossky and John Zizioulas.
Co-Edited Books
Orthodox Readings of Augustine, eds. George Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008).
Thinking through Faith: New Perspectives from Orthodox Christian Scholars, eds. Aristotle Papanikolaou and Elizabeth Prodromou (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008)
Click here for a discussion of the book.
Peer-reviewed Articles
“Orthodoxy, Post-Modernism, and Ecumenism: The Difference that Divine-Human Communion Makes,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 42:4 (Fall 2007): 527-4.
“Liberating Eros: Confession and Desire,” The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 26:1 (Spring/Summer 2006): 115-36.
“Is John Zizioulas an Existentialist in Disguise: Response to Lucian Turcescu?” Modern Theology 20:4 (October 2004): 601-07.
“Divine Energies or Divine Personhood: Vladimir Lossky and John Zizioulas on conceiving the transcendent and immanent God,” Modern Theology 19:3 (July 2003) 357-85.
“Byzantium, Orthodoxy, and Democracy,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 71:1 (March 2003): 75-98.
“Person, Kenosis and Abuse: Hans Urs von Balthasar and feminist theologians in conversation,” Modern Theology 19:1 (January 2003): 41-65.
Invited Articles
“Augustine and the Orthodox: The ‘West’ in the ‘East’”[co-authored with George Demacopoulos] in Orthodox Readings of Augustine, eds. George Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008): 11-40
“Sophia, Apophasis and Communion: The Trinity in Contemporary Orthodox Theology,” in Cambridge Companion to the Trinity, ed. Peter C. Phan (2009).
“Personhood and its exponents in Twentieth-Century Orthodox Theology,” in Cambridge Companion to Christian Orthodox Theology, eds. Elizabeth Theokritoff and Mary Cunningham (2008): 232-45.
“Honest to God: Confession and Desire,” in Thinking through Faith: New Perspectives from Orthodox Christian Scholars, eds. Aristotle Papanikolaou and Elizabeth Prodromou (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008): 219-46.
“Reasonable Faith and a Trinitarian Logic: Faith and Reason in Eastern Orthodox Theology,” in Restoring Faith in Reason, eds. Laurence Paul Hemming and Susan Frank Parsons (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003): 237-55.
Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
“Orthodox Theology,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, eds. David Fergusson, Karen Kilby, Iain Torrance (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
“Trinity in Eastern Orthodoxy,” “Vladimir Lossky,” and “Apophatic Theology,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
“Orthodox Theology,” in Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Miliè Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, Lukas Vischer, eds.; Geoffrey W. Bromiley, English-language ed.; David B. Barnett, statistical ed., Encyclopedia of Christianity, vol. 5 (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 414–418.
Courses Taught, Fall 2009:
THEO 6616-R01: Contemporary theology of the Trinity, T 11:45-2:15.
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