Research Interests:
Dogmatic Theology, Orthodox Anthropology, Ecclesiology, Mystical Theology, Missiology, Religious Hermeneutics, Intercultural Theology. Fr, Nathanael holds a PhD in Orthodox Dogmatic Theology and a PhD in Orthodox Spirituality: Ascetical and Mystical Theology. He has been a member of the “International Orthodox Association of Dogmatic Theologians” (I.A.O.D.T.) since September 2016 and a member of the “National Colloquium of Dogmatic Theology” since June 2014.
Selected Publications:
Author of several theological works, among which we mention: Πρόσωπο και κοινωνία στη θεολογία τοῦ π. Δηµητρίου Στανιλόαε (Persoană și comuniune în teologia părintelui Dumitru Stăniloae), Ostracon Publishing, Collecta Academica XX, Thessaloniki, 2015, ISBN 978-618-5146-24-5, pp. 209; Dogmatic consciousness and spiritual life in St. Sophrony Sacharov´s thought, Doxologia Publishing House, Iasi, 2015; La synodalité épiscopale, le primat et l’assemblée des fidèles au service de l’unité de l’Église – une perspective théologique orthodoxe, in (Editors) Peter Bouteneff, Michael Stavrou, Ioan Tulcan, Primacy and Primacies in the Church, “Aurel Vlaicu” University from Arad House Editing, 2018, pp. 48-63; Ἡ θεολογική γνωσιολογία ὠς θέωση κατα τὸν Γρηγοριο τὸν Παλαµά, in “Ἐπιστηµονική Ἐπετηρίδα Θεολογικής Σχολικής Σελάνος (Synthesis)”, Τέυχος 2019, volume8 (1), pp. 224 -243; Theology in the spiritual experience and thought of St. Sophrony (Sakharov) the Athonite, in “International Journal of Orthodox Theology”, 11:2 (2020), pp. 72-101; The perfection of man from a religious phenomenological and Christian theological perspective, in “European Journal of Science and Theology”, June 2021, Vol. 17, No.3, pp. 115-123; Symbols and Sacraments from Christian and Religious Phenomenological Perspectives, in “Hermeneia. Journal of Hermeneutics, Arts, Theory and Criticism”, Issue no. 27/2021, pp. 273-283 etc.