TRS Staff
DR ANDREAS ANDREOPOULOS,
BEd (Patra), BA, MEd, (Toronto), PhD (Durham), LMS (Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
Lecturer in Christian Theology
Director of the Centre
for Orthodox Studies
Assistant Director of the Distance Learning Programme
Director of the MTh in Orthodox Studies
Director of the postdoctoral Licence in Divinity (LicDD)
Email: a.andreopoulos@lamp.ac.uk
Areas of Interest
Orthodox Theology, Greek Patristics, Iconology, Christian Semiotics,
Sacred Art
Current Research
Interpretation of Icons as Visual Sermons
Christian Semiotics in Iconography, Liturgy and Holy Tradition
Areas of PhD Supervision
Icons of Protection; Perichoresis in the Greek Fathers; The Theology of Fr. Dumitru Staniloae; Orthodox Ecclesiology; Marriage in Orthodox Theology; Western Rite Orthodoxy; The Pastoral Theology of Fr. Sophronios Sakharov.
Publications include
Books
The
Sign of the Cross: the Gesture, the Mystery, the History (Orleans, MA:
Paraclete Press, 2006)
Art as Theology:
from the Postmodern to the Medieval (London: Equinox Publishing, 2007)
Metamorphosis:
The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology and Iconography (Crestwood,
NY: SVS Press, 2005)
Articles – Contributions in Books
’Icons: the Silent Gospels’, in Art, Artists and the
Bible, edited by Martin O’Kane (London: SPCK, 2008) pp. 83-100.
‘The Symbol, the Icon and the Body: an Examination of Christian Semiotics’,
in Studia Patristica, volume 39, Leuven, Peeters
‘The Wondrous Poetry of Symeon the New Theologian’, in Romanian
Mediaevalia, volume 4, New York, 2004, pp. 277-286
‘How do we represent the Glory of God? Theological and iconological connections
between the Transfiguration and the Resurrection’, in La mort et
la résurrection dans la Tradition orthodoxe, GGC editions, University
of Sherbrooke, 2004, pp. 47-59
‘The Symbol and the Icon in Patristic Tradition: A Semiotic Comparison’,
in Romanian Mediaevalia, volume 3, 2003, pp. 175-185
‘Od Sinaja do Tabora: Gora Mistichkog Ushotenia’ (From Sinai to
Thabor: the Mountain of Mystical Ascent), in St. Prince Lazar, volume
4 (40), 2002, Prizren, Serbia, pp. 11-20
‘The Mosaic of the Transfiguration in St. Catherine’s Monastery
on Mount Sinai: a Discussion of its Origins’, in Byzantion,
volume 72/1, June 2002, Louvain, Belgium, pp. 9-41
‘Imago Poetae: The Aesthetics of Manos Hadjidakis’, in the Journal
of Modern Greek Studies, volume 19/2, October 2001, Johns Hopkins University
Press, pp. 255-268
‘The Return of Religion in Contemporary Music’, in Literature
and Theology, volume 14/1, March 2000, Oxford University Press, pp. 81-95
