Public Lecture

Jun 06, 2024
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Public Lecture

On Thursday, 6 June 2024, Fr Anastasios Bozikis, Associate Lecturer in Church history delivered a talk to the Fellowship Group of St Nectarios Church in Burwood on ‘Justinian: Emperor and Saint.’ It traced the extraordinary career of this sixth century Byzantine ruler and his wife, the Empress St Theodora. Remembered most notably as the builder of the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, Justinian was also a talented theologian and legal reformer. He reconquered North Africa and Italy for the Roman Empire and sought to restore unity to the Church through dialogue with the Non-Chalcedonians. In 553AD he convened the Fifth Ecumenical Synod in Constantinople to condemn the heresies of Origenism and the vestiges of Nestorianism.

 

Introducing the Master of Greek Philosophy

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.

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