Principal Research Fellow

Cvetković Vladimir

Vladimir Cvetković is a scholar of Patristics and Byzantine and Serbian intellectual history. He received his BA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Belgrade (1997, 2007) and an MA by thesis in Theology from Durham University (2002).

He has held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Aarhus (Denmark), St Andrews (UK), Oslo (Norway), and Niš (Serbia). He has also served as a visiting professor at Aarhus University, the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), and the University of the Andes (Bogotá), as well as a visiting researcher in Florence, Paris, Barcelona, Budapest, and Princeton.

His research examines the interaction between philosophy and theology from Late Antiquity to the modern period, with particular emphasis on the Greek Fathers, Byzantine philosophy, Serbian intellectual history, and modern Orthodox theology. His work focuses especially on St Maximus the Confessor, the reception of Neoplatonism in Byzantine and Serbian thought, and the development of Orthodox intellectual traditions.

Latest publications

(2026) ‘The Philosophy of Life in the Philosophical-Theological Synthesis of St. Justin the New (Popović)’, Studies in East European Thought (2026) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-026-09859-6.
(2026) ‘From Domination to Communion: A Christian Ethics for AI, Animals, and Humanity’, Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy (2026) (doi:10.1007/s11245-025-10366-2).
(2026) (ed. with Sebastian Mateiescu), Maximus the Confessor and Origenism: Continuity and Debate in Post-Chalcedonian Theology, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2026. (ISBN: 978-3-402-13768-0)
(2026) (with Sebastian Mateiescu), ‘Introduction’, in: Sebastian Mateiescu and Vladimir Cvetković (eds.), Maximus the Confessor and Origenism: Continuity and Debate in Post-Chalcedonian Theology, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2026, 9-21 (ISBN: 978-3-402-13768-0)
(2026) (with Tamara Plećaš), ‘Body and Soul in Maximus the Confessor and the Seventh-Century Origenism: Between Aristotelianism and Stoicism’, in: Sebastian Mateiescu and Vladimir Cvetković (eds.), Maximus the Confessor and Origenism: Continuity and Debate in Post-Chalcedonian Theology, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2026, 165-185 (ISBN: 978-3-402-13768-0)
(2026) ‘Boethius, Maximus the Confessor and the Porphyrian Tree’, in: Thomas Cattoi and Kevin Clarke (eds.), Maximos the Confessor and Latin Fathers, Leiden: Brill, 2026, 59-78 (doi:10.1163/9789004749955_005)
(2026) ‘The Reception of Palamas and Palamite Tradition in Justin Popović’, in: Tikhon Pino (ed.), Legacy of St. Gregory Palamas, Tunhout: Brepols, 2026, 201-216 (doi: 10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.150787)
(2026) ‘Maximus the Confessor and the Porphyrian Tree Revisited’, The New Ressourcement 3.1 (2026), 95-137 (ISSN: 2995-5947).
(2026) „Metafore kruga, centra i poluprečnika i Porfirijevog drveta kod Boetija“ [Metaphors of the Circle, Center, and Radius and Porphyry’s Tree in Boethius], in: Tadej Rifel (ed.), Festschrift to Gorazd Kocijančić, Ljubljana: Logos, 2026, 91-104 (ISBN: 978-961-7155-56-3)
(2026) ‘Sabornost in 20^th century Serbian theology’, in: Irina Peart, Andrei Shishkov, and Alison Ruth Kolosova (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Conciliarity in Modern Orthodox Christianity, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2026, 270-281 (ISBN: 978-1-394-19586-2).
(2026) (ed.), The Understanding of Light in the Religious Traditions of 14th and 15th Century Balkans, Thematic Isssue of Journal Crkvene studije – Church Studies 23 (2026), 1-168 (ISSN: 1820-2446).
(2026), ‘Thematic Issue: The Understanding of Light in the Religious Traditions of the 14th and 15th Century Balkans – Introduction’, Crkvene studije – Church Studies 23 (2026), 13-21 (ISSN: 1820-2446)
(2026) (with Mikonja Knežević), ‘From the Light of Creation to the Light of Contemplation: The Understanding of Light in the 15th Century Slavonic Translations of Hexaemeral Literature’, Crkvene studije – Church Studies 23 (2026), 41-59 (https://doi.org/10.18485/ccs_cs.2026.23.23.2)
(2026) ‘Review of A History of the Desire for Christian Unity, Volume 1: Dawn of Ecumenism (Leiden: Brill 2021) and A History of the Desire for Christian Unity, Volume 2: Paths towards Communion (Leiden: Brill 2025) edited by Alberto Melloni And Luca Ferracci’ Crkvene studije – Church Studies 23 (2026), 729-734 (ISSN: 1820-2446).
(2025) (ed. with Alex Leonas), Ambiguum 10 of St. Maximus the Confessor in Modern Study, Turnhout: Brepols, 2025 (10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.137207)
(2025) (with Alex Leonas), ‘Introduction’, in Ambiguum 10 of St. Maximus the Confessor in Modern Study, Turnhout: Brepols, 2025, 13-24 (https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.141858).
(2025) (with Ivan Nišavić), ‘Wisdom in Maximus the Confessor’s Ambiguum 10.19’, in Alex Leonas and Vladimir Cveković (eds.), Ambiguum 10 of St. Maximus the Confessor in Modern Study, Turnhout: Brepols, 2025, 317-340 (https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.141867).
(2025) (ed.), The One and Many: Reception of the Neoplatonic Notion of Hierarchy in the 14th and 15th Century Balkans, Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, 2025 (ISBN: 978-86-6190-023-5).
(2025) ‘Introduction’, in Vladimir Cvetković (ed.), The One and Many: Reception of the Neoplatonic Notion of Hierarchy in 14th and 15th Century Balkans, Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory 2025, 9-21 (10.5281/zenodo.17949832).
(2025) ‘Reception of the Dionysian Notion of Hierarchy in 14th Century Serbia’, in Vladimir Cvetković (ed.), The One and Many: Reception of the Neoplatonic Notion of Hierarchy in 14th and 15th Century Balkans, Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory 2025, 126-162 (10.5281/zenodo.17953964).
(2025) ‘Quis hic fallitur? Interpreting the Apophatic Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite in the 13^th and 14^th Century Mount Athos’, in Antoaneta Doncheva (ed.), Fallor Ego Sum: Collected papers in Honour of Prof. Georgi Kapriev, Sofia: University St Kliment of Ohrid Press, 2025, 39-48.
(2025) ‘Georges Florovsky and St Justin Popović: Brothers in Arms for the Neopatristic Synthesis’, Studies in East European Thought 77/1, (2025), 101-116 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09588-0).
(2025) „Srpska teološka misao u doba tranzicije: neopatristika, duhovna tradicija i ekumenizam” [Serbian Theological Thought in the Era of Transition: Neopatristics, Spiritual Tradition, and Ecumenism], Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU 73/3 (2025), 133-156. (https://doi.org/10.2298/GEI2503133C).
(2025) „Duša, kosmos, Bog: analogija krug-centar-poluprečnici i njena primena” [Soul, Cosmos, God: The Centre-Circle-Radii Analogy and Its Application], in Nebojša Lalić & Nenad Cekić (eds.), Objašnjenje i razumavanje u filozofiji i nauci [Explanation and Undestanding in Philosophy and Science], Beograd: Srpska akademija nauka I umetnosti, Univerzitet u Beogradu – Filozofski fakultet, 2025, 359-370 (ISBN: 978-6184-104-0).
(2025) ‘Foreword’ in Matthew J. Dal Santo, Teokratia: The Theocratic Principle in Russia, 1917 and Today, Brooklyn, NY: Angelico Press 2025, xi-xii (ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8892801171).
(2024) ‘Circle and Sphere Metaphors for God’s Nature and Providence in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy and Dionysius’ On Divine Names, in: Michael O’Wiitala (ed.), Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 186-201 (ISBN: 9781009288279).
(2024) ‘The Medieval Slavonic Reception of Maximus the Confessor’s Circle –Center –Radii Analogy’, De Medio Aevo 13/2 (2024), 261-272, https://doi.org/10.5209/dmae.95742
(2024) (ed. with Dragiša Bojović), Sveti Justin Novi Ćelijski i pravoslavni svet [Saint Justin the New of Ćelije and the Orthodox World], Niš: Centre of Church Studies 2024 (ISBN: 978-86-84105-66-2).
(2024) „Raport o stanju svetojustinovskih studija (reč urednika)”, [Report on the State of St. Justin Studies (Editor’s Note)], in: Vladimir Cvetković and Dragiša Bojović (eds), Sveti Justin Novi Ćelijski i pravoslavni svet [Saint Justin the New of Ćelije and Orthodox World], Niš: Centre of Church Studies 2024, 11-24. (ISBN: 978-86-84105-66-2).
(2024) ‘St Justin the New on the Church of Christ’, in: Vladimir Cvetković and Dragiša Bojović (eds), Sveti Justin Novi Ćelijski i pravoslavni svet [Saint Justin the New of Ćelije and Orthodox World], Niš: Centre of Church Studies 2024, 377-403. (ISBN: 978-86-84105-66-2).
(2024) Βλαντιμιρ Τσβετκοβιτσ, «Ἡ ἰδέα τῆς Εὐρώπης στὴ σκέψη τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰουστίνου Πόποβιτς» [The idea of Europe in the thought of Saint Justin Popović], Σύναξη 170 (2024), 40-48.
(2024) ‘Saint-Savahood (Svetosavlje) between Political Theology and Ideology of Nationalism’, in: Mihai-D. Grigore and Vasilios N. Makrides (eds.), Orthodoxy in the Agora: Orthodox Christian Political Theologies Across History, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/Brill, 2024, 203-219 (ISBN 978-3-525-30256-9).
(2024) „Dragiša Bojović i Centar za crkvene studije” [Dragiša Bojović and the Centre of Church Studies], in: Katarina Mitrović & Jovana Bojović Joksimović (eds.) Mnogoletna pisanja sabrasmo u jedno: tematski zbornik posvećen profesoru Dragiši Bojoviću [We have compiled many years of writing into one: A thematic collection dedicated to Professor Dragiša Bojović], Niš: Centre of Church Studies 2024, 621-641 (ISBN 978-86-84105-65-5).
(2024) „Prikaz knjige Dimitrisa Stamatopulosa Vizantija posle nacije: problem kontinuiteta u balkanskim istoriografijama [Review of Dimitris Stamatopoulos, Byzantium after the Nation: The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies, Budapest – Vienna – New York: Central European University Press, 2022], Crkvene studije 21 (2024), 769-771 (ISSN: 1820-2446).