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Revd Dr Demetrios Bathrellos

Lecturer in Theology (Patristic Studies)

Revd Dr Demetrios Bathrellos [Faculty & Staff > Sessional & Honorary Faculty]

Subject Area

  • Systematic Theology and Patristics

Current Research

  • The Sinlessness of Christ

Fr Demetrios Bathrellos is a Lecturer in Theology (Patristic Studies) at St Andrew's. After taking two undergraduate degrees, in Classics and Theology from the University of Athens, Fr Demetrios studied Systematic Theology at King’s College London, from which he received his PhD in 2001. He has published widely in Patristics and Systematic Theology, mostly in English and Greek, and has taught at several academic institutions around the world, including King’s College London, UK, Emory University, Atlanta, USA and The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK.

He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK and of the Volos Academy of Theological Studies, Greece, as well as a Member of the Bioethics Committee of the Church of Greece.

Bibliography

Books

  • The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. xii + 225. Serbian translation: Vizantijski Hristos: Iicnost, priroda i volja u hristologiji svetog Maksima Ispovednika (Kragujevac, 2008). Greek translation in progress.

  • An Outline of Orthodox Dogmatics Based on the Works of Saint Symeon of Thessalonica (Athens: En Plo, 2008), pp. 467 (in Greek).

  • Christians and Post-Secularization: Reflections and Suggestions on the Role and the Witness of the Church in the Public Square(Athens: En plo, 2016), pp. 281 (in Greek).

  • Behold the Man: The Dogma of the Sinlessness of Christ(Athens: En Plo, 2017), pp. 356 (in Greek); under contract for publication by Oxford University Press.

Articles

  • ‘Submission: Comments on a Dystopian “Prophesy” for the Future of Post-Secular Europe’, Synaxi 162 (2022), pp. 19-25 (in Greek).

  • ‘The Patmos and Rhodes (1980), Munich (1982), Bari (1987), New Valamo (1988), Ravenna (2007), and Chieti (2016) Documents: An Inadequate Approach to the Question of Conciliarity and Primacy’, Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 4:2 (2022), pp. 239-63;

  • ‘The Concepts of Sin and Sinlessness in St Maximus the Confessor’, StudiaPatristica CXXI. 18, ed. by Markus Vinzent and Sotiris Mitralexis (Leuven: Peeters, 2021), pp. 51-58.

  • ‘Gunton and the Cappadocians’, in Andrew Picard, Myk Habets, and Murray Rae (eds.), T&T Clark Handbook of Colin Gunton (London: T&T Clark, 2021), pp. 253-68.

  • ‘The Sinlessness of Christ: An Ancient Dogma and its Contemporary Significance’, Phronema 35:2 (2020), pp. 1-25.