Christos Yannaras on the Ontology of Personhood and Ethics

Abstract

The contemporary Greek philosopher, Christos Yannaras elaborates an “ontology of personhood” and this has important consequences for Christian ethical thought. Over against legalism, excessive rationalism or individualism, he calls for human freedom based on an ontology of the human person, an existentialist ethics and prophetic social ethics. Ecclesial and Eucharistic ethics takes seriously God’s revelation, the ontology of personhood, as well as human history and the material world.