The Philosophy of Christos Janaras

Christos Janaras was born in 1935 and has been a prominent public intellectual over the recent decades in Greece. He believes that if we think of God as just a particularly outstanding, maximal or perfect being, we approach him in the wrong way. This is part of what it means to approach God as a person,. trying to grasp God with philosophical concepts can be fruitless. For he finds in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, and especially its idea of the Trinitarian persons, resources for an alternative grounding of political life.