Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Greece

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe

Part of the book series: Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies ((CHARIS))

Abstract

The article will focus on the para-religious organisation Zoe, an organisation that was founded as early as 1907 as a semi-monastic brotherhood by Archimandrite Efsevios Matthopoulos that initially consisted of celibate lay theologians and some professionals. Its purpose was not an otherworldly retreat from the concerns of everyday life, but a serious attempt to deal with Greece’s grave problems, religious and social alike. Its basic aims were the spiritual and moral improvement of its members and followers as well as the wholesale re-Christianisation of the country. The aim of the chapter is to describe its purposes, structure, and ideology, and the rise and fall of a powerful organisation that left deep traces in Greece up to the present day.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Agouridis, Savvas. 1983. I thriskeia ton simerinon Ellinon. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anastassiadis, Anastassios. 2010. “An Intriguing True-False Paradox: The Entanglement of Modernization and Intolerance in the Orhodox Church of Greece”. In Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece: The Role of Religion in Culture, Ethnicity and Politics, ed. Victor Roudometof, and Vasilios N. Makrides. Farnham: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Angelopoulos, Athanasios. 1985. “Griechenland”. In Theologische Realenzyklopädie, ed. G. Müller. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.

    Google Scholar 

  • Baerentzen, Lars. 1987. “The “Paidomazoma” and the Queen’s Camp”. In Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War, 1945–1949, ed. L. Baerentzen et al. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bellah, Robert N. 1964. “Religious Evolution”. American Sociological Review 29 (3): 358–374.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bellah, Robert N. 1991. “Cultural Barriers to the Understanding of the Church and Its Public Role”. Missiology: An International Review 19(4): 462–473.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bournazos, Stratis. 2009. “To Kratos ton Ethnikofronon: Antikommounistikos Logos kai Praktikes”. In Istoria tis Elladas tou 20ou Aiona, Vol. D2, ed. Hatziiosif Hristos. Athens: Vivliorama.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bratsiotes, Panagiotes. 1960. “Die Theologen-Bruderschaft Zoe”. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geitesgeschichte 12: 371–384.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dalzell Jr., Robert F. 1987. Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Danforth, Loring M., and Riki van Boeschoten. 2012. Children of the Greek Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Elefantis, Angelos. 1976. H Epaggelia tis Adynatis Epanastasis. Athens: Themelio.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gazi, Efi. 2004. O deuteros vios ton Trion Ierarchon. Mia genealogia tou “ellinoxristianikou politismou”. Athens: Nefeli.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gazi, Efi. 2011. Patris, Thriskeia, Oikogeneia: Istoria enos Synthimatos (1880–1930). Athens: Polis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gousidis, Alexandros. 1989. Oi Xristianikes Organoseis. I periptosi tis Adelfotitos. Theologon i Zoe. Thessaloniki, Melissa.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karagiannis, Yorgos N. 2001. I Ekklisia apo tin Katochi ston Emfylio. Athens: Proskinio.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kolitsaras, Ioannis Th. 1980. Seraphim Papakostas. Athens: Zoe Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Liakos, Antonis. 1983. “I diathlasi ton epanastatikon ideon ston Elliniko choro”. Ta Istorika 1 (1): 121–144.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maczewski, Christoph. 2002. I Kinisi tis Zois stin Ellada: Symvoli sto provlima tis paradoseos tis Anatolikis Ekklisias. Athens: Armos.

    Google Scholar 

  • Makrides, Vasilios. 1997. “Secularization and the Greek Orthodox Church in the Reign of King George I”. In Greek Society in the Making, 1863–1913. Realities, Symbols and Visions, ed. Philip Carabott‚ Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, 3., Aldershot: Variorum/Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Makridis, Vasilios. 1988. “The Brotherhoods of Theologians in Contemporary Greece”. The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 33 (2): 167–187.

    Google Scholar 

  • Makrides 1998, “Exeliktiki kai Orthodoxia stin Ellada: sygxrones apopeires enarmonisis se kritiki theorisi”‚ Neusis‚ Athens‚ 173–220.

    Google Scholar 

  • Makrides, Vasilios N. 2004. “Orthodoxy in the Service of Anticommunism: The Religious Organization Zoe during the Greek Civil War”. In The Greek Civil War: Essays on a Conflict of Exceptionalism and Silences, ed. Philip Carabott, and Thanasis D. Sfikas. Athens: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Makrides, Vasilios. 2011. “I Orthodoxi Ekklisia kata ton 20o aiona: Istorikokoinoniologiki episkopisi”. In Timitikos Tomos Pinelopis Aggelopoulou, 2nd ed. Piraeus University. Athens: Sakkoulas.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mardin, Serif. 1995. “Civil Society and Islam”. In Civil Society: Theory, History, Comparison, ed. John A. Hall, 292–293. Cambridge: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mastrogiannopoulos, Elias. 1962. Prosanatolismoi. Omiliai pros Hristianika Somateia. Athens: Zoe Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Papadimitriou, Despoina. 2006. Apo ton Lao ton Nomimofronon sto Ethnos ton Ethnikofronon. Athina: Savvalas.

    Google Scholar 

  • Papakostas, Seraphim. 1948. Efsevios Matthopoulos. Athens: Zoe Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Psilopoulos, Emmanuel. 1966. “Le mouvement “Zoï dans l’Église orthodoxe de Grèce”‚ Revue des Sciences Religieuses 40 (3): 258–289.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reid, Daniel G. 1990. Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rev. Constantelos, Demetrios J. 1959. “The Zoe Movement in Greece”, St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 3(2): 11–25.

    Google Scholar 

  • Roudometof, Viktor. 2010. The Evolution of Greek Orthodoxy in the Context of World Historical Globalization. In Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece: The Role of Religion in Culture, Ethnicity, and Politics, ed. Viktor Roudometof, and Vasilios N. Makrides. Surrey: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stamatopoulos, Dimitris. 2014. “The Orthodox Church of Greece”. In Eastern Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe, ed. Lucian Laustean, 34–64. New York: Fordham University Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Tsakonas‚ Demetrios. 1963. “Die geistigen und religiösen Strömungen im heutigen Griechenland”, Una Sancta 18, Jg., Heft 1. Kyrios Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Willmer, Wesley K., J. David Schmidt, and Martyn Smith. 1998. The Prospering Parachurch: Enlarging the Boundaries of God’s Kingdom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yannaras, Hristos. 1972. Orhtodoxia kai Dysi. I Theologia stin Ellada simera. Athens.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yannaras, Hristos. 1987. Katafygio Ideon. Athens: Domos.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Panteion Univeristy, Athens, Greece

    Amaryllis Logotheti

Authors
  1. Amaryllis Logotheti
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

    Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović

  2. Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

    Radmila Radić

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Logotheti, A. (2017). The Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Greece. In: Djurić Milovanović, A., Radić, R. (eds) Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe. Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63354-1_14

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation