John Chryssavgis (an haife shi a ranar 1 ga Afrilu 1958) masanin tauhidin Kirista ne na Orthodox wanda ke aiki a matsayin mai bada shawara ga Babban Maigidan Ikilisiya kan batutuwan muhalli. Shi limami ne na Archdiocese na Orthodox na Girka na Amurka. A watan Janairun shekara ta 2012, ya sami taken Archdeacon na kursiyin Ecumenical, ta hanyar All-Holiness Ecumenical Bartholomew. A shekara ta 2016, an bashi digiri na girmamawa daga St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary. Acikin 2020, an zabe shi Farfesa mai daraja na tauhidin a Kwalejin Allahntaka ta Sydney.
Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi John Chryssavgis a Ostiraliya a shekara ta 1958.Yayi karatu daga Kwalejin Scots a Sydney a 1975, kuma ya sami digiri a fannin tauhidi daga Jami'ar Athens a 1980. Ya sami difloma acikin Kiɗa na Byzantine daga Conservatory of Music na Girka a 1979 kuma an bashi tallafin bincike ga St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary a 1982. Ya kammala karatun sa na digiri a fannin Patristics a Jami'ar Oxford a shekarar 1983. Chryssavgis ya karanta tauhidin patristic a Jami'ar Oxford.
Ayyuka
Ayyukansa da rubuce-rubucensa sun mayar da hankali kan tauhidin zamani, da kuma tarihin Cocin Gabas. Yana da digiri a fannin tauhidi da kiɗa mai tsarki. Koyarwarsa ta rufe batutuwa masu yawa, kamar su Tauhidi, siyasa, da cigaban zamantakewa, jigogi da mutane na Zamanin Tsakiya, gami da alaƙar al'adu da addini da tashin hankali tsakanin Gabas da Yamma. Abubuwan da yake so sun rungumi bangarorin ruhaniya, muhalli, da liturgy. Binciken da yayi ya ƙware acikin tunanin ascetic da aikin Ikilisiya ta farko, musamman daga al'adar hamada ta Masar (ƙarni na 4) ta hanyar yankunan Falasdinu (ƙarni na 5 zuwa 6) da Sina'i (ƙarni na 7). Bayan watanni da yawa acikin nutsuwa a Dutsen Athos, yayi aiki tare da Firaministan Orthodox na Girka a Ostiraliya (1984-1994) kuma ya kasance wanda ya kafa Kwalejin tauhidin St Andrew a Sydney, inda ya kasance Sub-Dean kuma ya koyar da Patristics da Tarihin Ikilisiya (1986-1995). Ya kuma kasance Malami a Makarantar Allah (1986-1990) da Makarantar Nazarin Addini (1990-1995) a Jami'ar Sydney .
A shekara ta 1995, ya koma Boston, inda aka naɗashi Farfesa na tauhidi a Makarantar tauhidin Holy Cross kuma ya jagoranci Shirin Nazarin Addini a Kwalejin Hellenic har zuwa shekara ta 2002. Ya kafa Ofishin Muhalli a wannan Makarantar a shekara ta 2001. Ya kuma koyar a matsayin farfesa na Patristics a Jami'ar Balamand a Lebanon.
Acikin 'yan shekarun nan, ya wallafa littattafai da yawa da labarai masu yawa acikin mujallu na duniya da encyclopedias a fannin addini da muhalli, adalci na zamantakewa da zaman lafiya, tare da littattafai masu zuwa ciki har da John Climacus: daga hamadar Masar zuwa Dutsen Sinaite.(Ashgate, Burtaniya, Winter 2004); da Light Through Darkness: Insights into Orthodox Spirituality (Orbis Books, Summer 2004)
A halin yanzu yana aiki a matsayin mai bada shawara kan tauhidi ga Ikilisiya kan batutuwan muhalli.
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The Way of the Fathers: Exploring the Mind of the Church Fathers, Light and Life Books, Minneapolis MN, 2003
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In the World, Yet Not of the World: Social and Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Fordham University Press, New York, 2009.
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Three Perspectives on the Sacred: The Augustana Distinguished Lectures, Chester Ronning Center, Camrose Alberta, 2015.
Saint Anthony the Great, with Marilyn Rouvelas [Illustrated by Isabelle Brent], Wisdom Tales, Bloomington IN, 2015.
Primacy in the Church: The Office of Primacy and the Authority of Councils, St. Vladimir's Press, Yonkers NY, 2016 [2 volumes].
Toward the Holy and Great Council: Retrieving a Culture of Conciliarity and Communion, Faith Matters Series, no. 1: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, New York NY, 2016.
Translation of Anastasios Yannoulatos, In Africa: Orthodox Witness and Service, Holy Cross Orthodox Press, Brookline MA, 2015 (449 pages).
Bartholomew: Apostle and Visionary, HarperCollins, New York NY, 2016. Greek translation: Athens Books, Athens, 2017. French translation: Cerf, Paris, 2017. Ukrainian and Russian translation: Ethos Biblioteka, Kyiv, 2021
Translation of Anastasios Yannoulatos, In Albania: Cross and Resurrection, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Yonkers NY, 2016. (378 pages).
Theology as Doxology and Dialogue: The Essential Writings of Nikos Nissiotis, with Nikolaos Asproulis (eds), Fortress Academic, Lanham MD, 2019.
Creation as Sacrament: Reflections on Ecology and Spirituality, Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, London, 2019.
Coedited (with Nikolaos Asproulis), Priests of Creation: John Zizioulas on Discerning an Ecological Crisis, T&T Clark, London, 2021.
Coedited (with Brandon Gallaher), The Living Christ: The Theological Legacy of Georges Florovsky, T&T Clark, London, 2021.
Coauthored (with Peter Chamberas), The Recognition of Saints in the Orthodox Church, Newfound Publishing, Hebron NH, 2021.
Coedited two volumes on The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church: Orthodox Theology in the Twenty-First Century, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 2021 [Greek and English].
The Letters of Barsanuphius and John: Desert Wisdom for Everyday Life, Foreword by Kallistos Ware, 2021, T&T Clark, London, 2022. Foreword by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.
Coexistence: Peace, Nature, Poverty, Terrorism, and Values, by Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of Albania. [Translation from the Greek] Geneva: World Council of Churches, Geneva, 2022.
Theology, Ecology, and Ecumenism: Reflections of an Innocent Sojourner (Fairfax, VA: Washington Theological Consortium, 2023). Introduction by Prof. Paul McPartlan.
