A celebration of living theology : a Festschrift in honour of Andrew Louth 9780567551092, 0567551091
This volume brings together an international range of world-class scholars to engage with Andrew Louth's work and i
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
The Editors
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Patristics
1 Reading the Fathers Today
Fragmentation
Integration
2 Authority and Doctrinal Normation in Patristic Discourse: The Nicene Creed at the First Council of Ephesus
Part 2: Byzantine Theology
3 The Impact of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on Byzantine Theologians of the Eighth Century: The Concept of 'Image'
4 Why should we read Middle Byzantine Fathers? 5 'Myriad of Names to Represent Her Nobleness': The Church and the Virgin Mary in the Psalms and Hymns of ByzantiumThe 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
Introduction
Simplicity, participation and the theurgic
Palamas, Scotus and the formal distinction
Participation in Platonic and Christian tradition. Divine action and human theurgyEssence 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
Introduction
Opuscula theologica
The Consolation
Part 4: Modern Theology
8 Towards a Fair History of Christian Orthodoxy
The apophatic historiography of the Orthodox Church
The limits of apophatic historiography
A fair historiography
Conclusion. 9 Vladimir Lossky's Reception of Georges Florovsky's Neo-Patristic TheologyPart 5: The Future of Patristics
10 Patristics after Neo-Patristic
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
11 'Following the Holy Fathers': Is there a Future for Patristic Studies?
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
Bibliography
Index of References.
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