The School of Pastoral and Social Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki organizes a short and comprehensive programme of one week courses at the Macedonian city of Veroia, where St Paul’s podium and a multitude of byzantine churches and monasteries.
 

The Course has been planned in order to present and promote the educative riches of Orthodox Theology and its cultural treasure.
 

COURSE AIM:
The purpose of the Course is to offer a series of foundational lessons in Orthodox Theology by combining knowledge based understanding and direct, personal, cultural interaction with the local tradition. The lessons will address the key disciplines of Orthodox Theology: Biblical Studies (Old and New Testament), Patrology and Hagiology, Church History, Dogmatics and Ecumenical Relations, Liturgics and the Christian Arts, Canon Law, Pastoral Care and Christian Sociology, Christian Ethics. It is expected that, upon successful completion of the Course, the students will have acquired a broad and general overview of the major fields of Orthodox Theology, as well as a basic understanding of Orthodox Spirituality and the culture that emerges from it.

PERIOD: Sunday 25 – Saturday 31 August 2013

APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 20, 2013

Information : www.diaviou.auth.gr,  www.past.auth.gr.

 

The Chairman of  the Lifelong Learning Unit  , 
                              
Prof.  St. Andreou                        

The Director of the Program, 

Prof. Dr K. Papademetriou