Selected Essays, Volume II: Studies in Theology

✍ Scribed by Prof Andrew Louth, Prof Lewis Ayres (editor), Prof John Behr (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 497
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taken together, these two volumes collect seventy-five essays written by Professor Andrew Louth over a forty-year period. Louth's contribution to scholarship and theology has always been significant, and these essays have been collected from journals and edited collections, many of which are difficult to access, and are here made available over two thought-provoking and wide-ranging volumes.

Volume II collects essays on a variety of theological topics, arranged chronologically, showing the development of Louth's thought since 1978. Throughout this collection the nature of 'theology', as it is understood within Orthodox tradition, is a constant concern. These essays offer distinctive reflections on categories -- such as 'development of doctrine' -- that have become foundational in modern western thought but which must be viewed rather differently from an Orthodox perspective. The legacy of modern Russian Orthodox thought -- especially the key figures of the twentieth century Russian diaspora -- is under constant consideration, and forms a constant dialogue partner.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Selected Essays: Volume II: Studies in Theology
Copyright
Dedication
Editors Preface and Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
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II
1: The Hermeneutical Question Approached through the Fathers
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II
III
2: The Greatest Fantasy: As If Julian the Apostate Had Written a History of Early Christian 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: Νά εὔχεσαι νά ᾽ναι μακρύς ὁ δρόμος: 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
Bulgakov the Priest
Eucharist and Incarnation
The Eucharistic Transmutation
Eucharistic Communion
The Holy Grail
Our Identity as Christians
David Jones
11: The Jesus Prayer and the Theology of Deification in Fr Pavel Florensky and Fr Sergii Bulgakov
12: Is Development of Doctrine a Valid Category for Orthodox Theology?
‘Development’ in Western Historical Disciplines
Newman’s Understanding of Development
Romanticism and Development
Probing the Orthodox Reluctance
Learning from a Genuinely Critical Intelligence
Theological Ideas in the Context of Worship
Refreshing the Memory of the Church
13: The Authority of the Fathers in the Western Orthodox Diaspora in the Twentieth Century
14: Pagans and Christians on Providence
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II
III
15: What Is Theology? What Is Orthodox Theology?
16: The Place of Θέωσις in Orthodox Theology
Incarnation: The Cosmic Dimension of Theosis
Transformation: The Human Dimension of Theosis
Apophatic Theology: The Divine-HumanUnion
Conclusion
17: Inspiration of the Scriptures
Western Presuppositions and Orthodox Theology
Starting from Practice
The Shape of the Scriptures
The Old Testament and the Christian Church
Christ the Centre of the Scriptures
Scriptural Inspiration?
18: Sergii Bulgakov and the Task of the Theologian
19: Space, Time, and the Liturgy
Ancient Conceptions of Space and Time
The Divine Liturgy
20: Apostolicity and the Apostle Andrew in the Byzantine Tradition
21: Holiness and Sanctity in the Early Church
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 Identityin Late Antiquity
Church Structures and Christian Identity
Making Christians: The Cult of the Martyrs
26: Analogy in Karl Barth and Orthodox Theology
The Background of the Notion of Analogy
Analogy in Christian Theology
The Doctrine of Analogy in the Twentieth Century
Seeking for Analogy in Orthodox Theology
Dumitru Stăniloae
Vladimir Lossky
Maximos’ ‘Signature Doctrine’ of the Logoi
27: Easter, Calendar, and 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: Nicolas Zernov Lecture 2015
Stages in the Recovery of the Icon: Scholars and Attempts to Clean Icons
. . . and Connoisseurs
The Icon Revealed
Evgeny Trubetskoy
Fr Pavel Florensky
Recreating the Tradition of Icon Painting: Leonid Uspensky
. . . and Fotis Kontoglou
St Maria of Paris and Sister Joanna Reitlinger
Conclusion
30: Mary the Mother of God and Ecclesiology: Some Orthodox Reflections
Introduction
Mary and the Church as Virgin Mother
Sergii Bulgakov
Vladimir Lossky
Paul Evdokimov
Conclusion
31: What Did Vladimir Lossky Mean by ‘Mystical Theology’?
Mysticism in the Air
Contemporary Mystical Writings
Meister Eckhart
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
The Divine Darkness
Lossky’s 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: Μονὰς καὶ Τριάς: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Byzantine Theology
Evagrios and the Trinity
From μονὰς καὶ ἑνάς to μονάς καὶ τριάς
Μονάς and τριάς in Christian Theology
The Trinitarian Theology of Maximos the Confessor . . .
. . . and John Damascene
Maximos and John Compared
Appendix: Numerology and the Trinity
Details of Original Publication
Index