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Two faculty members of St Andrew's offered papers at the eleventh conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association, held at the University of Sydney on 11 & 12 February 2016. Protopresbyter Dr Doru Costache (Senior Lecturer in Patristic Studies) addressed "Byzantine Cosmology: Representations of Space and Time in Saint Maximus the Confessor." In turn, Dr Mario Baghos (Lecturer in Church History) spoke of "Sacred Space and 'Kairotic' Time in Medieval Constantinople."
Greek philosophy remains foundational to the history of ideas in the Western and Eastern traditions. It has shaped disciplines as diverse as theology, ethics, politics, science, and metaphysics. In particular, the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the later Hellenistic and Byzantine philosophers have exercised enduring influence on Christian theology, especially in the Patristic and medieval Byzantine periods.
The Master of Greek Philosophy cultivates advanced capacity for critical engagement with the key figures, texts, and ideas of the ancient and Byzantine Greek philosophical tradition, preparing graduates to integrate these insights in further scholarly research, higher education, ministry, or other cultural and professional spheres.