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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). Many of the essays in volume II concern the nature of theology, drawing from a famous group of twentieth century Russian thinkers exiled after the 1917 Communist revolution.
List of contents
- 1: The Hermeneutical Question approached through the Fathers
- 2: As if Julian the Apostate had written a history of early Church dogma...
- 3: The Place of The Heart of the World in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
- 4: Eros and Mysticism: Early Christian Interpretation of the Song of Songs
- 5: The Image of Heloise in English Literature
- 6: Theological Reflections on Pilgrimage
- 7: The Theology of the Philokalia
- 8: Theology, Contemplation, and the University
- 9: Father Sergii Bulgakov on the Mother of God
- 10: The Eucharist in the Theology of Fr Sergii Bulgakov
- 11: The Jesus Prayer and the theology of Deification in Fr Pavel Florensky and Fr Sergii Bulgakov
- 12: Is the Development of Doctrine a valid category for Orthodox Theology?
- 13: The Authority of the Fathers in the Western Orthodox Diaspora in the Twentieth Century
- 14: Pagans and Christians on Providence
- 15: What is Theology? What is Orthodox Theology?
- 16: The Place of Oewoic in Orthodox Theology
- 17: Inspiration of the Scriptures
- 18: Sergii Bulgakov and the Task of Theology
- 19: Space, Time, and the Liturgy
- 20: Apostolicity and the Apostle Andrew in the Byzantine Tradition
- 21: Holiness and Sanctity in the Early Church
- 22: The Influence of the Philokalia in the Orthodox World
- 23: Experiencing the Liturgy in Byzantium
- 24: Theology of the 'in-between'
- 25: Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: Conversion, community and Christian identity in Late Antiquity
- 26: Analogy in Karl Barth and Orthodoxy Theology
- 27: Easter, Calendar, Cosmos: an Orthodox View
- 28: Pseudonymity and Secret Tradition in Early Christianity: some reflections on the development of Mariology
- 29: The Recovery of the Icon
- 30: Mary the Mother of God and Ecclesiology: some Orthodox Reflections
- 31: What did Vladimir Lossky mean by 'mystical theology'?
- 32: The Slav Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim
- 33: Reflections inspired by Cardinal Grillmeier's Der Logos am Kreuz
- 34: Bulgakov and Russian Sophiology
- 35: Exile, Hospitality, Sobornost': the Experience of the Russian Émigrés
- 36: Eucharistic Doctrine and Eucharistic Devotion
- 37: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Byzantine Theology
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 a 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). Many of the essays in volume II concern the nature of theology, drawing from a famous group of twentieth century Russian thinkers exiled after the 1917 Communist revolution.
