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These two volumes contain selected essays, written over forty years, by Andrew Louth, a major scholar in the fields of Theology and Patristics (early Christian thought). The essays in the first volume concern key figures and themes in early Christian theology - especially Maximos the Confessor and John of Damascus.
List of contents
- 1: The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology
- 2: The Use of the Term idioc in Alexandrian theology from Alexander to Cyril
- 3: Ignatios or Eusebios: Two Models of Patristic Ecclesiology
- 4: On Being a Christian in Late Antiquity: St Basil the Great between the Desert and the City
- 5: St Gregory the Theologian and St Maximus the Confessor: The Shaping of Tradition
- 6: St Gregory the Theologian and Byzantine Theology
- 7: 'From Beginning to Beginning': Continuous Spiritual Progress in Gregory of Nyssa
- 8: St Makrina: the Fourth Cappadocian
- 9: Evagrios: The 'Noetic' Language of Prayer
- 10: Evagrios on Anger
- 11: Augustine on Language
- 12: St Augustine's Interpretation of the Transfiguration of Christ
- 13: Love and the Trinity: St Augustine and the Greek Fathers
- 14: 'Heart in Pilgrimage': St Augustine as Interpreter of the Psalms
- 15: Pagan Theurgy and Christian Sacramentalism in Denys the Areopagite
- 16: 'Truly visible things are manifest images of invisible things' (Ep. 10): Dionysios the Areopagite on knowing the invisible
- 17: The Reception of Dionysios in the East up to Maximos the Confessor
- 18: The Reception of Dionysios in the East from Maximos the Confessor to Gregory Palamas
- 19: Dionysios the Areopagite: the Unknown God and the Liturgy
- 20: St Maximos the Confessor between East and West
- 21: From Doctrine of Christ to Icon of Christ: St Maximos the Confessor on the Transfiguration of Christ
- 22: Eucharist and Church according to St Maximos the Confessor
- 23: The Views of St Maximos the Confessor on the Institutional Church
- 24: Virtue Ethics: St Maximos the Confessor and Aquinas compared
- 25: St Maximos' Doctrine of the Logoi
- 26: Mystagogy in St Maximos
- 27: The Lord's Prayer as Mystagogy from Origen to Maximos
- 28: St Maximos' Distinction between logos and tropos and the Ontology of the Person
- 29: Pronoia in the Life and Thought of St Maximos the Confessor
- 30: Sophia, the Wisdom of God, in St Maximos the Confessor
- 31: The Doctrine of the Image of God in St Maximos the Confessor
- 32: The Holy Spirit in the Theology of St John Damascene
- 33: John of Damascus on the Mother of God as the link between Humanity and God
- 34: The Doctrine of the Eucharist in the Iconoclast Controversy
- 35: Photios as a Theologian
- 36: Knowing the Unknowable: Hesychasm and the Kabbalah
- 37: Aquinas and Orthodoxy
About the author
Andrew Louth is Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He is the editor of the journal Sobornost, and editor, with Professor Gillian Clark, of the series Oxford Early Christian Studies and Oxford Early Christian Texts.
Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic & Historical Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
John Behr is Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen.
Summary
These two volumes contain selected essays, written over forty years, by Andrew Louth, a major scholar in the fields of Theology and Patristics (early Christian thought). The essays in the first volume concern key figures and themes in early Christian theology - especially Maximos the Confessor and John of Damascus.
