Τhe Mother of God in the Orthodox Tradition: Feasts, texts, traditions, miracles

Course Information
TitleΗ Θεοτόκος στην Ορθόδοξη Παράδοση: Εορτές, κείμενα, παραδόσεις, θαύματα / Τhe Mother of God in the Orthodox Tradition: Feasts, texts, traditions, miracles
CodeΧ354
FacultyTheology
SchoolSocial Theology and Christian Culture
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CoordinatorDimosthenis Kaklamanos
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID600022683

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

Registered students: 1
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS

Class Information
Academic Year2023 – 2024
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600229941
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
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)
  • English (Examination)
  • French (Examination)
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Keywords
Theotokos, feasts, hagiology, homiletic, miracles
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Use of audio-visual tools in the process of teaching (especially powerpoint and video clips). Supplementary material, additional data and exercises / tests on Blackboard. Communication and research counseling through e-mails
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures39
Seminars12
Reading Assigment30
Written assigments18
Exams1
Total100
Student Assessment
Description
Oral exam on the material covered throughout the semester or written assignment (90%). Class participation and a written assignment (10%).
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Δημοσθένης Στρατηγόπουλος, Ο πατριάρχης Φώτιος υμνεί τη Θεοτόκο. Κριτική έκδοση – Σχόλια, εκδ. Αρμός, Αθήνα 2019.
Additional bibliography for study
Ι. Αναστασίου, Τα Εισόδια της Θεοτόκου. Η ιστορία, η εικονογραφία και η Υμνογραφία της εορτής, Θεσσαλονίκη 1959. Μ. Βασιλάκη (επιμ.), Μήτηρ Θεού. Απεικονίσεις της Παναγίας στη Βυζαντινή Τέχνη, Αθήνα 2000. Μητρ. Ναυπάκτου και Αγίου Βλασίου Ιερόθεος Βλάχος, Οι Θεομητορικές εορτές. Τα ιστορικά και θεολογικά της υπεραγίας Θεοτόκου, Λεβαδειά 2016. Δ. Κακλαμάνος, Αγίου Νικοδήμου του Αγιορείτου, Κανόνες Οκτώηχοι εις τα Εισόδια της Θεοτόκου. Εισαγωγή - Κριτική Έκδοση, Άγιον Όρος 2017. Γ. Παπαγιάννης, Ακάθιστος Ύμνος. Άγνωστες πτυχές ενός πολύ γνωστού κειμένου, Θεσσαλονίκη 2006. Α. Σπουρλάκου-Ευτυχιάδου, Η Παναγία Θεοτόκος τύπος χριστιανικής αγιότητος, Αθήναι 1990. Α. Τριβυζαδάκη, Θεομητορική Εικονογραφία. Η παιδική ηλικία, Θεσσαλονίκη 2005. M. Cunningham, Wider than Heaven. Eight Century Homilies on the Mother of God, [St. Vladimir' s Seminar Press. Popular Patristics Series 35], New York 2008. M. Cunningham, Τhe Mother of God in Early Byzantine Homilies, Sobornost 10 (1999) 53-67. S.-C. Mimouni, Les traditions anciennes sur la Dormition et Assomption de Marie. Etudes littéraires, hi-sto¬riques et doctrinales [Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 104], Leiden-Boston 2011. J. Olkinuora, Byzantine Hymnography for the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos, [Studia Patristica Fennica 4], Helsinki 2015. S. Shoemaker, Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption, Oxford 2002.
Last Update
16-09-2023