Nikos Nissiotis

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Nikos Nissiotis ( Greek Νίκος Νησιώτης ; * May 21, 1924 in Athens ; † August 18, 1986 ) was a Greek Orthodox religious philosopher who sought to promote Orthodoxy in the West as a diplomat and teacher.

Life

Nissiotis studied theology and philosophy in Athens from 1942 to 1947, after the German occupation he turned to Zurich and studied there in 1948/1949 - with Emil Brunner and CG Jung . From 1952 to 1953 he studied in Basel with Karl Barth and Karl Jaspers and at the Catholic University in Leuven . He received his doctorate in Athens in 1956 for the apologetic examination of agnostic existentialism.

He became an observer at Vatican II (1962–1965) , where he represented the Eastern and Eastern Orthodox Churches as a delegate, while Lukas Vischer was the delegate for the World Council of Churches . He then became the director (1966–1974) of the Bossey Ecumenical Institute . Nissiotis discussed the catholicity and universality of the general (Orthodox) Church with reference to Ioannis Karmiris and Florowski , he fought with verve against the Filioque and against the heretical apocatastasis doctrine in favor of the final judgment.

Nissiotis was Vice President of the Greek National Olympic Committee from 1975 to 1986 and President of the International Olympic Academy from 1977 to 1986 . He was also a Greek member of the IOC .

He died in a car accident between Athens and Corinth.

Works (selection)

  • The qualitative importance of catholicity. Theological journal Basel Jgg 17, 4/1961, 259-280
  • "Secular and Christian Images of Human Person". Theologia 33, Athens 1962, p. 947-989; Theologia 34, Athens 1963, p. 90-122. [1]
  • L'Eglise et la Société dans la Theologie orthodoxe grecque. in L'Ethique sociale ... Geneva 1966
  • The Theology of the Eastern Church in Ecumenical Dialogue: Church and World from an Orthodox Perspective. Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagswerk, 1968
  • Mary in Orthodox Theology. In: Concilium 19 (1983), pp. 613-625

Literature and Sources

  • Nissiotis is prominently represented in the volume "Theologians of the 20th Century" by P. Neuner and G. Wenz (eds.), Darmstadt: WBG 2002
  • Joseph Kallarangatt: Pneumatocentric Eccesiology in Nikos Nissiotis, Kottayam, OIRSI, 1999.
  • Joseph Kallarangatt: The Ecumenical Theology of Nikos A. Nissiotis, in Christian Orient 11, Dec. 1990, p. 173-186.

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  1. ↑ See website About Bossey ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . From there, Nissiotis also accompanied the establishment of the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy near Geneva, also in 1966, of which Damaskinos Papandreou became director in 1969 . This reported in the International Catholic Journal 1975, 323-330 about the center. From the Greek point of view, it was particularly about the coordination of the many independent and partly controversial Orthodox exile churches in Central and Western Europe under the dignity of the (so-called) Ecumenical Patriarchate . Nissotis' successor in Bossey was the Burgdorf pastor John Mbiti . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oikoumene.org
personal data
SURNAME Nissiotis, Nikos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Νησιώτης, Νίκος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek religious philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1986