Professor Nikolas Loudovikos
Honorary Research Fellow
Humanities and Social Sciences
Nikolas.Loudovikos@winchester.ac.uk
Biography
Professor Nikolas Loudovikos is one of the most recognisable scholars of his generation in Greece. In addition to his numerous scholarly publications, he is known through frequent contributions in newspapers and appearances in radio and television programmes.
Professor Loudovikos is one of the few modern Greek scholars who are actively pursuing cooperation with European and overseas universities. To this end he has participated in teaching and research programmes at the Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, the University of Wales Lampeter, and several other institutes in Europe and North America. He has also given seminars and lectures at many European universities such as Durham, Cambridge, Nottingham, King’s College, Belgrade, Bucharest, Alba Iulia, Sibiu, Costanza, Veliko Tarnovo, Padova, Torino and Paris.
Publications
The strive for participation: Thomas Aquinas and Gregory Palamas. Athens: Armos, forthcoming.
A eucharistic ontology: Maximus The Confessor’s eschatological ontology of being as dialogical reciprocity. Boston: Holy Cross Press, 2010. This is a translation of his A eucharistic ontology. Athens: Domos, 1992.
The terrors of the person and the ordeals of love: critical thoughts for a postmodern theological ontology. Athens: Armos, 2009.
Theopoiia: postmodern theological aporia. Athens: Armos, 2006.
Orthodoxy and modernization: Byzantine individualization, state and history in the perspective of the European future. Athens: Armos, 2006.
A theological history of ancient Greek philosophy. Thessaloniki: Pournaras, 2004.
Psychoanalysis and orthodox theology: on desire, Catholicity and eschatology. Athens: Armos, 2003.
An apophatic ecclesiology of consubstantiality. Athens: Armos, 2002.
Closed spirituality and the meaning of the Self: Christian mysticism of power and the truth of nature and personhood. Athens: Ellinika Grammata, 1999.
Research Interests
- Eucharistic ontology
- Apophatic ecclesiology
- The relationship between Orthodox theology and continental philosophy