Institute for the Study of Values And Spirituality

Constantinos Athanasopoulos

  1. Home
  2. »
  3. Constantinos Athanasopoulos

Constantinos Athanasopoulos

Open University, U.K.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). At Open University in Scotland, he is teaching courses on Thought and Experience. He is a Philosophical and an eLearning Consultant, with a specialization in Philosophical, Religious and Theological Studies. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Moral Philosophy) from the University of St. Andrews, a Master in Educational Studies from the Hellenic Open University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow. His Ph.D. topic was “The Metaphysics of Intentionality: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language in Wittgenstein and Sartre”. He taught Philosophy at a number of universities including the University of Glasgow in Scotland, the Universities of Athens, Pireus, and Patras in Greece, the Hellenic Open University, the American College of Thessaloniki, and the Free University of Bolzano in Italy. Dr. Constantinos has published actively in the field of Philosophy and Theology, including the book Ancilla Theologiae: Philosophy and Theology in Medieval times and the Byzantium. Dr. Constantinos has also contributed to many International Conferences in Philosophy and Theology in Greece, Russia, Romania, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Poland, and South Africa. He is a member of various Philosophical Societies and editorial boards of Philosophical Journals in the United Kingdom and abroad. Dr. Constantinos Athanasopoulos founded and developed, together with Professor Dan Chițoiu, (Al. I. Cuza University of Iași, Romania) and Professor Oleg Dushin (St Petersburg State University, Russia), St Gregory Palamas Seminar: International Research into the Philosophical and Theological Work of St Gregory Palamas. Starting with 2014, the ongoing Research Seminar had successful meetings in Greece, Mount Athos, Romania, Cyprus, Portugal, covering various topics related with the crucial work of St Gregory Palamas. As a result of these complex and multifaced investigations, he edited Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism: Philosophy and Theology in St Gregory Palamas’ Work (Cambridge Scholars, 2020), and Triune God. Incomprehensible but Knowable (Cambridge Scholars, 2015).

ISVS PUBLICATION
Latest News
April 28, 2026, 10 a.m.International Conference “Searching for Spiritual Values in Times of Uncertainty.”
You can watch it online:
Meeting ID: 898 0410 5376, Passcode: 416793
 
April 21, at 11.00, ISVS Lecture of Professor Patrick Giddy, South Africa. 
Join Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 819 1857 1721
Passcode: 293673
 
On April 7 at 10:00 on Zoom, the next ISVS Invited Lecture will feature Janis John Ozolins presenting a very special topic: Australian Aboriginal culture and spirituality. 
Connection link:
Meeting ID: 829 4284 3402, Passcode: 832655
 

March 20, 2026, 12:00 PMProfessor Jove Aguas will deliver a lecture on the Filipino Culture and Values. Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 863 7809 2349
Passcode: 656642
 

March 3, 2026New ISVS Project on Values and Spirituality in Context (https://instvs.org/values-and-spirituality-in-context/).

 

December 31, 2025 – 2025 Newsletter

Wishing all of you a great and inspiring New Year 2026! Our Newsletter gathers the achievements of a fruitful 2025.
 

December 24, 2025

December 3, 2025 – ISVS has a New Site! – The ISVS’s new site has more information and is more dynamic, thanks to our great technical support!

 

November 30, 2025 – New Issue of Methexis Journal –  Issue 9 of ISVS Publication, Methexis Journal has been released.

Institute for the Study of Values and Spirituality
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.