We will presume to approach briefly two great figures of the Greek tradition. The first, Heraclitus, was born and died in Ephesus in the sixth to fifth century BC. This is the 'dark' or obscure philosopher. The second, Porphyrios, was born in Evia and ended his life on the Holy Mountain in the twentieth century. This is the luminous elder.

A "fresh vision of theology, church and the world," in English, coming from the revival and renewal of monasticism coming from the Holy Mountain led by Archimndrite Vasileios, Abbot of Iveron Monastery, whose message, while original yet genuinely traditional, is "a word of life not for Athos only, but for the Christian world as a whole.