Faculty Profiles

John Fotopoulos

Associate Professor

Religious Studies and Theology

155 Spes Unica Hall

fotopoul@saintmarys.edu

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! —2 Cor 5:17

Education

PhD, Loyola University, Chicago
MDiv, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
BA, Hellenic College

Research Interests

Courses Recently Taught

Professional Experience

Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with the o!kion (“rank”) Διδάσκαλος τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου (“Teacher of the Gospel”) bestowed by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.

Creative and Scholarly Work

(Co-Editor with E.J. Pentiuc and B.N. Beck) Studies in Orthodox Hermeneutics: A Festschrift in Honor of Theodore G. Stylianopoulos. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2016.
(Editor) The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 122. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.
(Author of Modern Greek Translation of book Food O#ered to Idols) Τα Θυσιαστήρια Δείπνα στη Ρωµαική Κόρινθο. Μία Κοινονικο-Ρητορική Ανάλυση της Α᾽ Κορ. 8:1- 11:1. Μετα. Μ. Γκουτζιούδις. Βιβλική Βιβλιοθίκη 37. Θεσσαλονίκη: Πουρναράς, 2006.
(Author) Food O#ered to Idols in Roman Corinth: A Social-Rhetorical Reconsideration of 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/151. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.
“Orthodox Christianity, Patristic Exegesis, and Historical Criticism of the Bible.” Pages 322–333 in Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity. Edited by Eugene J. Pentiuc. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
“Some Common Misperceptions about the Date of Pascha/Easter.” Public Orthodoxy Blog, Fordham University. March 2021. Online: https://publicorthodoxy.org/2018/03/15/easter-date-2018/

Professional Memberships