This panel explores the contribution Eastern Orthodox spirituality could make to developing a theological model of dialogue that promotes a hospitable encounter with Christian, religious, and secular alterity. The panel engages with patristic, modern, and contemporary Eastern Christian spiritual authors whose writings, explicitly or implicitly, inspire a theology that welcomes and celebrates diversity and its many gifts, albeit not uncritically. The panel covers themes such as (i) the spiritual practice of contemplation; (ii) asceticism; (iii) theosis or deification; (iv) Hesychast spirituality; (v) Philokalic spiritual practices; (vi) liturgical spirituality; (vii) monastic spirituality; (viii) spiritual hospitality; (ix) the practice of non-possession, etc.Chair: Petre Maican (Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Nijmegen)Speakers:Dagmar Heller (Institute for Ecumenical Studies and Research), Theosis and justification. A dialogue issue between Orthodox and Lutherans Kristen Guidero (Indiana Wesleyan University): Deification via Dialogue: The Spirituality of Theosis Meets the Sciences Nikolaos Asproulis (Volos Theological Academy), Human Being as Priest of Creation: Towards an Orthodox Eco-Spirituality Viorel Coman (KU Leuven), The Encounter with Otherness: Insights from the Eastern Christian Practice of AsceticismOlga Sevastyanova (St. John Chrysostom Orthodox Research Group), De Vita Moysis by Gregory of Nyssa (335-395) as a Brilliant Example of the Dialogue between the Christian and Non-Christian CulturesDionysios Skliris (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), ’Agapolitics’ as a Theological Response to Thanatopolitics in the Context of the Covid-19 PandemicSmilen Markov (Veliko Tarnovo University), Consensus as recognition of subjectivity in the legislative projects of the Byzantine Emperors Basil I and Leo VI