A Celebration of Living Theology by Aldea, Leonard,Mihoc, Justin A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover-Page Half-Title Title Contents List of Contributors The Editors Preface Introduction Lewis Ayres Part 1 Patristics

1 Reading the Fathers Today John Behr

Fragmentation Integration

Part 2 Byzantine Theology

The question of the Virgin’s transformations The mature Byzantine tradition The key role of hymns to the Mother of God The middle hymnic tradition The contribution of dramatized exegesis The earlier tradition Original multiplicity Conclusion

Part 3 East and West in Dialogue

6 Christianity and Platonism in East and West John Milbank

Introduction Simplicity, participation and the theurgic Palamas, Scotus and the formal distinction Participation in Platonic and Christian tradition Divine action and human theurgy Essence and energies The Genealogy of forms The twin legacies of neoplatonism Energy and theophany Action and participation: Why Aquinas is more Byzantine than Palamas Eschatology and the crisis of mediation: West, East and further East

7 Boethius the Theologian Augustine Casiday

Introduction

Part 4 Modern Theology

8 Towards a Fair History of Christian Orthodoxy Antoine Arjakovsky

The apophatic historiography of the Orthodox Church The limits of apophatic historiography A fair historiography Conclusion

Part 5 The Future of Patristics

10 Patristics after Neo-Patristic Cyril Hovorun

Patristics as an Orthodox self-identity Method in Patristics Neo-Patristic synthesis and Personalism Dialectics of Neo-Patristic synthesis and the Russian Religious Renaissance The future of Patristic studies Language of the Fathers Complexity of Fathers’ voices

Continuity in the midst of change Who are the Fathers? Why study the Fathers? How should the Fathers be studied?

A Bibliography of Prof Andrew Louth

Monographs Editions Translations Articles Articles in Books and Dictionaries

Bibliography Index of References Copyright