Η αλήθεια για την Θρησκεία – Truth in Religion

His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America is the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, counting more than one and a half million members in the United States. His Eminence holds a PhD from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, on New Testament and Christian Origins, and a second doctorate in Theology from the University of Athens. He has taught at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Massachusetts, and at Harvard Divinity School. Archbishop Demetrios has been the recipient of many governmental, ecclesiastical, interfaith, and academic honors in the United States, in Greece and elsewhere in Europe, and has authored more than a dozen books.

Amy Hollywood is the Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She is a historian of Christian thought who specializes in mysticism, with strong interests in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy. Her latest book, to be published by Columbia University Press, is Acute Melancholia and Other Essays. She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism. She served as editor of the Gender, Theory, and Religions series for Columbia University Press and is on the editorial board for the University of Chicago Press’s Religion and Postmodernity series.

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. In addition to being the moderator of this conversation series, Prof. Critchley is the moderator of The New York Times philosophy column, “The Stone.” He is the author of more than a dozen books. Two books of interviews with Professor Critchley have recently been published: How to Stop Living and Start Worrying (Polity, 2010) and Impossible Objects (Polity, 2011). The Faith of the Faithless, a major new work on the relationship between politics, religion and violence was recently published by Verso. He lives in Brooklyn.