HAGIOLOGY AND HEORTOLOGY

Course Information
TitleΑΓΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ – ΕΟΡΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ / HAGIOLOGY AND HEORTOLOGY
CodeΥΕ15
FacultyTheology
SchoolSocial Theology and Christian Culture
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CoordinatorSymeon Paschalidis
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID60005091

Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Koinōnikīs THeologías kai CΗristianikoý Politismoý (2023 kai exīs)

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective Courses belonging to the selected specialization634
Class Information
Academic Year2017 – 2018
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600101239
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
1. Introductory Issues for the scientific branch of Hagiography, its place inside the science of Theology and its relation with other human sciences. The history of the hagiographic studies in Greece and abroad. 2. Hagiographic genres: Acts and Passions (Martyria), ancient martyrological collections, apocryphal sources, Lives and Enkomia 3. Hagiographic genres: Ascetic-hagiographic collections, Synaxaria and Menologia,Narrationes animae utiles, Collections of Miracles, Revelations 4. An Historical-literary overview of the hagiographic literature (2nd-7th cent.) 5. An Historical-literary overview of the hagiographic literature (8th-15th cent.) 6. An Historical-literary overview of the hagiographic literature of the post-byzantine literature 7. The term "saint" and the cult of saints during the byzantine period 8. Groups of Saints in the byzantine tradition 9. The Neomartyrs (new martyrs) and the theological framework of the cult of the new saints 10. The procedure for the official recognition of new Saints in Orthodox and Roman-Catholic Church 11. The cult of the holy relics in orthodox tradition: Theology, use and misuse 12. The Parrhesia, the intervention and the miracles of the Saints 13. The Christian Church calendar and its evolution
Keywords
Hagiography, cult of saints, Martyrs, New Saints, Groups of Saints, Church Calendar, recognition of Saints, relics, hagiographic genres
Educational Material Types
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures33✓
Seminars6✓
Reading Assigment48
Written assigments16✓
Total103
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Σ. Πασχαλίδης, Βυζαντινή και Μεταβυζαντινή Αγιολογία. Γραμματεία - Θεολογία - Κείμενα, εκδ. Αλτιντζής, Θεσσαλονίκη 2017
Additional bibliography for study
Τσάμης Δ., Αγιολογία της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας, Θεσσαλονίκη 2004 Πρακτικά Συνεδρίου εις τιμήν και μνήμην των Νεομαρτύρων (17-19 Νοεμβρίου 1986), Θεσσαλονίκη 1988. Πάσχος Π. Β., Άγιοι, οι φίλοι του Θεού. Εισαγωγή στην Αγιολογία της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας, εκδ. Αρμός, Αθήνα 21997 Ο άγιος και ο μάρτυρας στη ζωή της Εκκλησίας. Εισηγήσεις ΙΒ΄ Συνεδρίου Πατερικής Θεολογίας, Αθήνα 1994 Σ. Πασχαλίδης, Εν Αγίοις. Ειδικά θέματα Βυζαντινής και Μεταβυζαντινής Αγιολογίας, Θεσσαλονίκη 2012 S. Efthymiadis (ἐπιμ.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, τ. 1: Periods and Places, Farnham–Burlington 2011
Last Update
08-10-2017