==Life==

He criticized his contemporary Prelates on the charge of Simony "'''epi simonia'''", and upheld the theory of the "'''Trisynthetou'''"(triple constitution of humanity) - i.e '''"Psyche"(Soul), "Pneuma"(Spirit), "Soma"(body).'''(''Tolika''). He is arguably one of the most important religious personalities of the 19th century, whose innovations turned the Holy Synod against him. He was condemned and jailed several times.(''Tolika''). He was a very prolific writer whose works were widely translated outside of Greece.

He founded the '''"School of the Logos"''' in Athens in 1876 and titled himself ''"professor of philosphy and the philosophical sciences in the Greek nation"'' (theological discipline of "Christology"). As ''Scharlemann'' writes:...

"Makrakis intended to be a teacher of the people of Greece,...'''''"this child of the revolution of 1821"'''''. The Kierkegaard who speaks here has a Hellenistic Soul; Philosophy, ''"the love and science of the God-equal WORD, or LOGOS,"'' has as its purpose '''''"the acquisition of God's omniscience...and the deification of the philosophical investigator."''''' Its obejct is the same as that of religion and government. The system traces the journey of the soul in its ascent from the '''''"primary cognition [noein]"''''' through the philosophical sciences to its deiification. The means of ascent are provided by the '''''"right reason"''''' that is the object of logic and is incarnate in Jesus Christ.....right reason being the nexus between temporal fact and eternal being. In this system, the primary cognition, or what phenomenology might call the basic intellectual intuition, is that I exist, the world exists, and God exists...The soul is conscious of its own existence, perceives the world, and knows God's existence, but it does not know the nature of each of them. The aim of science is to make the unknown known. Philosophy as Christology and Christology as Philosophy, it is at least a theme that makes one think."