Volos Academy for Theological Studies

Time for Action – 2

Ekaterini Tsalampouni

Associate Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

CHRISTIAN APOCALYPTIC TEXTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE:
A PROPOSAL OF ECOLOGICAL CRITICAL BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION
Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 7:00 p.m. Athens time
Online

The third event of the “Time for Action” series of Volos Academy for Theological Studies will take place on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 7.00 p.m. (Athens time). The speaker will be Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture in the Faculty of Theology in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The topic will be “Christian apocalyptic texts and climate change: a proposal of ecological critical biblical interpretation”. The lecture will be in Greek with simultaneous translation into English and it will be accessible online via the Zoom platform.

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85932041507

The engagement with biblical testimony in the theological discussion on the relation of the humankind to the environment is a rather recent turn in biblical studies and eco-theology. Yet, the eschatological consequences and the impact of biblical apocalyptic visions on the Christian stance towards the environment have not been discussed in depth. However, these apocalyptic visions often provide a convenient ideological framework for reading ecological crisis. The first part of the lecture will discuss the character and function of biblical apocalyptic narratives and the ways they may formulate the Christian eschatological expectations and the stance towards the rest of the creation. In the second part, a hermeneutical model for reading these texts in the context of ecological interpretation will be proposed.

Ekaterini Tsalampouni is Associate Professor of New Testament at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture of the Faculty of Theology in Thessaloniki. Her research focuses on New Testament exegesis and theology and the Graeco-Roman context of the New Testament. She studied at the Faculty of Theology in Thessaloniki, following postgraduate studies in Heidelberg. In 1999 she defended her doctoral thesis titled “Macedonia in New Testament times”. She is a member of several academic societies: Society of Biblical Literature, European Association of Biblical Theology, Colloquium Paulinum etc. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Bible Society and of Volos Academy of Theological Studies. Some of her publications are: Macedonia in New Testament Times (2002), Ecology and the New Testament: Method and Examples (2013), “Sola Scriptura: A Greek-Orthodox Perspective” (2019) etc.