Christos Giannaras was a modern Greek professor of philosophy and writer. He studied theology at the University of Athens and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn and Paris (Sorbonne). He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Sorbonne and the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He also holds honorary doctorates from the University of Belgrade, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary in New York, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Holy Cross School of Boston. He served as director of the journal Synoro, which published twelve issues from 1964 to 1967.
From 1982 to 2002 he was a full professor of philosophy at the Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences in Athens, initially in the then unified Department of Political Science and International Studies and then in the Department of International and European Studies. He taught philosophical terminology, and method, political philosophy and cultural diplomacy. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Paris, Geneva, Lausanne and Crete.
He has produced a rich body of writings on topics related to the study of the differences between Greek and Western European philosophy and Orthodox Christian tradition. His book The Freedom of Ethics is considered to have defined the core of what was later called «neo-orthodoxy» and has been called «the May of ’68 in Orthodox theology and ethics». Many of his works have been translated into at least 10 European languages.
