Prof. Dr. Maria Carábelia

PhD in Theology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specialising in Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology. Maria Carábelia (Μαρία Καράμπελια) is currently a member of the teaching staff at the Higher Ecclesiastical Academy in Athens, following a long career in secondary and university education. Her research focuses primarily on theological gnoseology within monasticism of the 4th and 5th centuries, with a focus on the writings of Saints Diadochus of Photice and Macarius the Egyptian, as well as those of the ecclesiastical writer Evagrius Ponticus. She is the author of several specialist studies, as well as the volumes The Empirical Experience of Divine Knowledge (Ἐμπειρικὴ βίωση τῆς θείας γνώσης, Εκδόσεις Αντ. Σταμούλη, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2013) and The Cultural Identity of Orthodoxy (Ἡ πολιτισμικὴ ταυτότητα τῆς Ὀρθοδοξίας, Ἐκδόσεις Αντ. Σταμούλη, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2014) (translator’s note).