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Book SynopsisScience and Eastern Orthodoxy provides a wealth of new information concerning Orthodoxy and secular knowledge-and the reactions of the Orthodox Church to modern sciences.Trade ReviewAn excellent contribution to college library world history and religious studies shelves. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review A thorough and exacting refutation of the idea that Orthodoxy rejects science outright. -- Katherine Warton Times Literary Supplement This book provides the English-speaking reader with invaluable insights and references which cover nearly a continuous two-thousand year period of interaction between faith and knowledge, science and technology. This book will certainly make a serious contribution to existing scholarship on the history of the relation between science and Christianity. It fills an essential, and inadmissible gap in research related to Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia. -- Alexei V. Nesteruk Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith Nicolaidis is well prepared to take on the difficult topic of science and Eastern Orthodoxy... The author lays an impressive foundation for future work... Highly recommended. Choice Nicolaidis offers not only a hitherto missing reference work, but also a fundamental contribution to the history of medieval science - and a challenging reference for future debates. -- Constantin Canavas Icon This is a very useful book to serve as supportive document for the teaching of the history of science and philosophy. -- Christiaan Sterken Journal of Astronomical Data The book is in general of the highest scholarly standard, and it will be a major resource for students and historians of science and religion for decades to come. -- Christopher C. Knight MetascienceTable of ContentsIntroductionChronology1. The Activist and the Philosopher: The Hexaemerons of Basil and of Gregory of Nyssa2. Two Conceptions of the World: The Schools of Antioch and Alexandria3. No Icons, No Science: The End of a Tradition?4. The Return for Greek Science: The First Byzantine Humanism5. Struggle for Heritage: Science in Nicaea and the Byzantine Renaissance6. Political Debates Become Scientific: The Era of the Palaiologos7. True Knowledge and Ephemeral Knowledge: The Hesychast Debate8. Ancients versus Moderns: Byzantium and Persian, Latin, and Jewish Sciences9. The Fall of the Empire and the Exodus to Italy10. A Rebel Patriarch: Cyril Lucaris and Orthodox Humanism inScience11. Toward Russia: The Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem12. Who Were the Heirs of the Hellenes? Science and the Greek Enlightenment13. The Scientifi c Modernization of an Orthodox State: Greece from Independence to the European Union14. Science and Religion in the Greek State: Materialism and DarwinismConclusionA Note on Secondary SourcesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[W]hy Christianity survived persecution in the Soviet Union, is to a great extent explained by the lives and religious faith of those presented to us in Women of the Catacombs with expert commentary and explanations in an introduction and footnotes by the editor, Dr Wallace Daniel, who also published a biography of Fr Aleksandr in 2016. * Church Times *Reading these textsdoes highlight the distinctiveness of Elena and Vera's perspectives as believers, providing a rare insight into an alternative culture. Thanks to the contribution of Wallace Daniel and his collaborators, the perspectives of these two remarkable women can enrich our understanding of everyday life under extraordinary circumstances. * The Russian Review *Table of Contents1. I: Fr. Serafim by Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia Ante Lucem One Must Take up the Cross White Chrysanthemums The Grace of the Holy Spirit Holding on to Christ's Garments Go to Sarov In Ravaged Sarov It Will Be More Difficult The War The Last Days and the End 2. II: Fr. Pyotr Shipkov by Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia In Zagorsk during the War On the End of the War. The Rebirth of the Church Fr. Pyotr in Exile (Letters) Return from Exile Illness and the Final Days in the Life of Fr. Pyotr From the Letters of V. Ia. Vasilevskaia to N. V. Trapani 3. III: My Journey by Elena Semenovna Men

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Book SynopsisWithin contemporary orthodoxy, debates over sex and gender have become increasingly polemical over the past generation. Beginning with questions around women’s ordination, arguments have expanded to include feminism, sexual orientation, the sacrament of marriage, definitions of family, adoption of children, and care of transgender individuals. Preliminary responses to each of these topics are shaped by gender essentialism, the idea that male and female are ontologically fixed and incommensurate categories with different sets of characteristics and gifts for each sex. These categories, in turn, delineate gender roles in the family, the church, and society. Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy offers an immanent critique of gender essentialism in the stream of the contemporary Orthodox Church influenced by the “Paris School” of Russian émigré theologians and their heirs. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to bring into conversation patristic reflections on sex and gender, personalist theological anthropology, insights from gender and queer theory, and modern biological understandings of human sexual differentiation. Though these are seemingly unrelated discourses, Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy reveals unexpected points of convergence, as each line of thought eschews a strict gender binary in favor of more open-ended possibilities. The study concludes by drawing out some theological implications of the preceding findings as they relate to the ordination of women to the priesthood, same-sex unions and sacramental understandings of marriage, definitions of family, and pastoral care for intersex, transgender, and nonbinary parishioners.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | vii PART I 1 Setting the Stage | 3 2 (No) Male and Female: Recapitulating Patristic Reflections on Gender | 18 3 Gender Essentialism in Contemporary Orthodox Thought | 56 4 Person, Gender, Sex, Sexuality | 92 PART II 5 Women and the Priesthood | 123 6 Homosexuality | 135 7 Marriage: The Sacrament of Love | 145 8 Some Final Thoughts on Pastoral Care | 164 Conclusion | 177 Notes | 181 Bibliography | 233 Index | 255

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Book SynopsisThe Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families, anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian traditionalism as the result of conservative religious modernization and the globalization of Christian social conservatism. The Moralist International continues a line of research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the global culture wars. The Moralist International is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction | 1 PART I: LEARNING THE CULTURE WARS 1 Religion: Conservative Aggiornamento and the Globalization of the Culture Wars | 17 2 History: The Sources of Russia’s Traditional-Values Conservatism | 29 3 Intellectual Roots: The Shared Legacy of Pitirim Sorokin | 50 4 Context: The Rise of Traditional-Values Conservatism inside Russia | 66 PART II: DOING THE CULTURE WARS 5 Ambitions: The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Transnational Conservative Alliances | 87 6 Networks: Civil Society and the Rise of the Russian Christian Right | 103 7 Strategies: The Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Discourse in a Transnational Context | 126 8 Leadership: Russian Traditional-Values Conservatism and State Diplomacy | 136 Epilogue | 153 Acknowledgments | 157 Bibliography | 159 Index | 193

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Book SynopsisTheosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways: positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this volume move beyond this East–West divide by examining the relation between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are addressed, such as the nature–grace debate and the relation of philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas, Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov, John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also continue the “theological achievement” of thinking about theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of God.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Faith, Reason, and Theosis | 1 Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos PART I: THEOTIC EXISTENCE Waking the Gods: Theosis as Reason’s Natural End | 15 David Bentley Hart Does Aquinas Have the Orthodox Concept of Theosis? | 37 Jean Porter Deification as Christification and Human Becoming | 72 Philip Kariatlis Theosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar | 93 Carolyn Chau Martin Luther on Faith and Union with God: Speculations on Theosis | 112 Kirsi Stjerna Differentiation as Disfigurement: A Womanist Polemic against the Co-optation of the Divine Essence | 133 Michele E. Watkins PART II: THEOTIC KNOWING Revelation, Reason, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Perspective | 159 William J. Abraham The Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse | 176 Andrew Prevot Speculation and Theosis in Vladimir Lossky and Meister Eckhart | 198 Robert Glenn Davis Knowing through Unknowing: The Qualified Necessity of Human Reason in Dionysius | 218 Peter Bouteneff Knowing in Theosis: A Byzantine Mystical Theological Approach | 231 Ashley Purpura Deification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic | 251 Stephen J. Davis The Embodied Logos: Reason, Knowledge, and Relation | 267 Rowan Williams Acknowledgments | 293 List of Contributors | 295 Index | 301

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Book SynopsisTheosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways: positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this volume move beyond this East–West divide by examining the relation between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are addressed, such as the nature–grace debate and the relation of philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas, Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov, John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also continue the “theological achievement” of thinking about theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of God.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Faith, Reason, and Theosis | 1 Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos PART I: THEOTIC EXISTENCE Waking the Gods: Theosis as Reason’s Natural End | 15 David Bentley Hart Does Aquinas Have the Orthodox Concept of Theosis? | 37 Jean Porter Deification as Christification and Human Becoming | 72 Philip Kariatlis Theosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar | 93 Carolyn Chau Martin Luther on Faith and Union with God: Speculations on Theosis | 112 Kirsi Stjerna Differentiation as Disfigurement: A Womanist Polemic against the Co-optation of the Divine Essence | 133 Michele E. Watkins PART II: THEOTIC KNOWING Revelation, Reason, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Perspective | 159 William J. Abraham The Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse | 176 Andrew Prevot Speculation and Theosis in Vladimir Lossky and Meister Eckhart | 198 Robert Glenn Davis Knowing through Unknowing: The Qualified Necessity of Human Reason in Dionysius | 218 Peter Bouteneff Knowing in Theosis: A Byzantine Mystical Theological Approach | 231 Ashley Purpura Deification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic | 251 Stephen J. Davis The Embodied Logos: Reason, Knowledge, and Relation | 267 Rowan Williams Acknowledgments | 293 List of Contributors | 295 Index | 301

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Book SynopsisA distinctive and unrivaled examination of North American Eastern Orthodox Christians and their encounter with the rights revolution in a pluralistic American society. From the civil rights movement of the 1950s to the “culture wars” of North America, commentators have identified the partisans bent on pursuing different “rights” claims. When religious identity surfaces as a key determinant in how the pursuit of rights occurs, both “the religious right” and “liberal” believers remain the focus of how each contributes to making rights demands. How Orthodox Christians in North America have navigated the “rights revolution,” however, remains largely unknown. From the disagreements over the rights of the First Peoples of Alaska to arguments about the rights of transgender persons, Orthodox Christians have engaged an anglo-American legal and constitutional rights tradition. But they see rights claims through the lens of an inherited focus on the dignity of the human person. In a pluralistic society and culture, Orthodox Christians, both converts and those with family roots in Orthodox countries, share with non-Orthodox fellow citizens the challenge of reconciling conflicting rights claims. Those claims do pit “religious liberty” rights claims against perceived dangers from outside the Orthodox Church. But internal disagreements about the rights of clergy and people within the Church accompany the Orthodox Christian engagement with debates over gender, sex, and marriage as well as expanding political, legal, and human rights claims. Despite their small numbers, North American Orthodox remain highly visible and their struggles influential among the more than 280 million Orthodox worldwide. Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America offers an historical analysis of this unfolding story.Table of ContentsPrologue: A Rights Primer | 1 Introduction | 21 1 Deferential Society and Church? Protestant to Orthodox Social Ethos | 34 2 The Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Confrontation with Rights | 67 3 Pluralism and the Rights of Freedom of Speech and Expression | 89 4 Rights of and for a Self-Governed American Orthodox Church | 116 5 “Greek” North American Orthodox Rights | 146 6 The Orthodox, Sex, and Marriage before the Rights Revolution | 173 7 The Orthodox, Gender, and Sexuality and the Rights Revolution | 205 8 Human Rights Claims and the Orthodox in America | 239 Conclusion | 287 Bibliography | 313 Index | 357

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Book SynopsisA distinctive and unrivaled examination of North American Eastern Orthodox Christians and their encounter with the rights revolution in a pluralistic American society. From the civil rights movement of the 1950s to the “culture wars” of North America, commentators have identified the partisans bent on pursuing different “rights” claims. When religious identity surfaces as a key determinant in how the pursuit of rights occurs, both “the religious right” and “liberal” believers remain the focus of how each contributes to making rights demands. How Orthodox Christians in North America have navigated the “rights revolution,” however, remains largely unknown. From the disagreements over the rights of the First Peoples of Alaska to arguments about the rights of transgender persons, Orthodox Christians have engaged an anglo-American legal and constitutional rights tradition. But they see rights claims through the lens of an inherited focus on the dignity of the human person. In a pluralistic society and culture, Orthodox Christians, both converts and those with family roots in Orthodox countries, share with non-Orthodox fellow citizens the challenge of reconciling conflicting rights claims. Those claims do pit “religious liberty” rights claims against perceived dangers from outside the Orthodox Church. But internal disagreements about the rights of clergy and people within the Church accompany the Orthodox Christian engagement with debates over gender, sex, and marriage as well as expanding political, legal, and human rights claims. Despite their small numbers, North American Orthodox remain highly visible and their struggles influential among the more than 280 million Orthodox worldwide. Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America offers an historical analysis of this unfolding story.Table of ContentsPrologue: A Rights Primer | 1 Introduction | 21 1 Deferential Society and Church? Protestant to Orthodox Social Ethos | 34 2 The Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Confrontation with Rights | 67 3 Pluralism and the Rights of Freedom of Speech and Expression | 89 4 Rights of and for a Self-Governed American Orthodox Church | 116 5 “Greek” North American Orthodox Rights | 146 6 The Orthodox, Sex, and Marriage before the Rights Revolution | 173 7 The Orthodox, Gender, and Sexuality and the Rights Revolution | 205 8 Human Rights Claims and the Orthodox in America | 239 Conclusion | 287 Bibliography | 313 Index | 357

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Book SynopsisIn Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, both spiritually and politically, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stallnist purges of the 1930s. She shows how, throughout the Soviet period, Orthodox monks and nuns continued to provide spiritual strength to the people, in spite of severe persecution, and despite the ambivalent relationship the Russian state has had toward the Russian church since the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Focusing her study on two provinces, Smolensk and Moscow, Wynot describes the Soviet oppression and the clandestine struggles of the monks and nuns to uphold the traditions of monasticism and Orthodoxy. Their success against heavy odds enabled them to provide a counterculture to the Soviet regime. Indeed, of all the pre-1917 institutions, the Orthodox Church proved the most resilient. Based on previously unavailable Russian archival sources as well as written memoirs and interviews with surviving monks and nuns, Wynot analyzes the monasteries' adaptation to the Bolshevik regime. She challenges standard Western assumptions that Communism effectively killed the Orthodox Church in Russia. She shows that in fact, the role of monks and nuns in Orthodox monasteries and convents is crucial, and that they are largely responsible for the continuation of Orthodoxy in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution.

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Book SynopsisOrthodox Christianity is one of the world’s major religions, and the Russian Orthodox Church is by far its largest denomination. Few know its history and spiritual richness, however. Neil Kent’s comprehensive new book fills that gap. The Russian Orthodox Church’s Eastern roots, including its dogma, canons, and practices, are explored, along with the political and military contexts in which it carried out its mission over the centuries. Hemmed in between the Catholic powers of pre-Reformation Europe in the West, the Mongol steppe empires to the East, and the Islamic civilizations to the South, Russia and its Church found themselves in a difficult position during the Middle Ages.The Russian Orthodox Church’s greatest strength was in the spiritual power of its liturgy, prayerfulness, icons, and monastic life. But even as the Church consolidated its authority under its own metropolitan, and later patriarch, it came into conflict with political rulers who sought to undermine it. After defeating foreign challenges, the Church underwent a painful reformation and schism, finally coming under government control. The Church survived this “Babylonian Captivity,” and, in philosophical and spiritual terms, flourished under tsarist rule while still facing rising opposition. The fall of the monarchy in 1917 led to the Church’s brief rejuvenation, but communist rule spelled relentless persecution with little respite at home and a lively émigré church carrying Russian traditions abroad. In post-Soviet times, however, the Church enjoyed an extraordinary resurrection and, benefiting from the spiritual richness and reunion with the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, once again became a spiritual pillar of the Russian people and a beacon of hope and Christian values, not only in Russia but anywhere it is currently practiced.

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Book SynopsisGregory Palamas, a monk of Mount Athos and metropolitan of Thessalonike from 1347 to 1357, was a leading fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectual. He was the chief spokesman for the hesychasts in the controversy bearing that name, which began when a charge of heresy was laid against him in 1340 and ended with his proclamation as a saint in 1368. Although excellent English translations of some of Palamas’ theological writings are available, very few texts relating to his historical role have yet been translated. This book contains the first English translation of the contemporary Life of Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos, which is our principal source of biographical information on him. Also translated into English for the first time are the Synodal Tomoi from 1341 to 1368, which chart the progress of the hesychast controversy from the viewpoint of the victors, together with the corpus of material relating to Palamas’ year of captivity among the Turks, which offers a unique insight into conditions for Christians and Muslims in the early Ottoman emirate. The translations, all of which are based on critical texts, are preceded by introductions which set Palamas in his historical context and propose some changes to the conventional chronology of his life. Trade Review'Norman Russell, a renowned scholar of patristic, Byzantine, and modern Greek theology, must be thanked for his enormous contribution in Gregory Palamas: The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate with Islam... For anyone who is interested in the figure of St. Gregory Palamas and the ecclesiastical events of the middle Palaiologan period, this is an essential volume to own.'The Pappas Patristic Institute ‘This very careful work, endowed with clear translations, well introduced and annotated... will render the greatest service both to researchers and to students’ Marie-Hélène Blanchet, Revue des Études Byzantines (translated from French)Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction1. Byzantium in the Mid-Fourteenth Century2. The Hesychast Controversy3. The Main Characteristics of Palamite Theology4. Palamas in Captivity among the Turks5. A Contested Saint6. The Reception of Palamas7. Texts and EditionsI. The Life of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos KokkinosII. The Synodal Tomos of 1341III. Letters from Prison in Constantinople1. To John Gabras2. To Philotheos 3. To Bessarion4. To the Empress AnnaIV. The Synodal Tomos of 1347 and Related Documents1. The Synodal Tomos of February 13472. The Prostagma of John VI Kantakouzenos of March 13473. The Anti-Palamite Tomos of July 1347V. The Synodal Tomos of 1351VI. Palamas in Captivity among the Turks1. Letter to his Church2. The Debate with the Chionai3. Letter to an Unknown RecipientVII. The Synodal Tomos of 1368GlossaryBibliographyIndexes

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Book SynopsisThe book explores all the important themes of the Copts from the earliest moment sof Christian history to the present day.Trade Review"A fascinating and highly readable book." -- The Tablet."Written with a deep, though not uncritical, sympathy for the Copts, and a keen awareness of the problems they face in an Islamic society." --Church Times."I warmly commend Among the Copts as a substantial contribution to Ecumenical understanding." -- George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury."This book, well illustrated and with pictures of Coptic life and historical sites, is one of the best-informed and most authoritative books on the contemporary situation in the ancient Church of Alexandira." -- Coptic Church Review.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: At the Sources of Christian Civilisation; Copt and Coptic; In the State of Angels; In Liturgical Time; Patriarchs: Fathers of the Fathers; Mission: For Africa and the World; The Egyptian Church Struggle; Thinking with the Church; Conclusion: Era of the Martyrs; Appendix; A Coptic Chronology; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects; Index of Biblical References.

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Book SynopsisOver the last century unprecedented numbers of Christians from traditionally Orthodox societies migrated around the world. Once seen as an âorientalâ or âeasternâ phenomenon, Orthodox Christianity is now much more widely dispersed, and in many parts of the modern world one need not go far to find an Orthodox community at worship. This collection offers a compelling overview of the Orthodox world, covering the main regional traditions of Orthodox Christianity and the ways in which they have become global. The contributors are drawn from the Orthodox community worldwide and explore a rich selection of key figures and themes. The book provides an innovative and illuminating approach to the subject, ideal for students and scholars alike.Trade Review"A unique foray - at times with broader, at other times with finer strokes - into fascinating dimensions of the intriguing kaleidoscope that is Eastern Christianity. The Orthodox world at your fingertips!" - Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, author of Light Through Darkness: The Orthodox Tradition"Admirably wide-ranging in its coverage, The Orthodox Christian World provides an eminently useful source of knowledge on the different traditions of Eastern Christianity. Particularly welcome in this respect is the inclusion of sections on the non-Chalcedonian Churches." - Sebastian Brock, Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK"The relationship between Eastern and Western Christianity is of great historical importance. Despite its contemporary significance, there is still a remarkable lack of knowledge and understanding of the diverse ecclesial and theological traditions of the Eastern Christian churches. The Orthodox World offers a wide ranging and authoritative account of this rich Christian landscape in all its complex plurality. The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Syriac traditions are juxtaposed inviting the reader to engage in a dialogical conversation, with and between, these great Christian cultures." - Anthony O'Mahony, Reader in the History of Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Orthodox Christianity Around the World Part 2: Important Figures in Orthodox Christianity Part 3: Major Themes in Orthodox Christianity

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Book SynopsisThis is a powerful comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches. It will be of wide interest to readers in philosophy, theology and medieval history.Trade Review'… learned and carefully argued …' Lloyd P. Gerson, University of Toronto'Bradshaw's text admirably exposes a key philosophical divergence that rests at the heart of the East West schism. … the text is a successful blend and extension of dissertation and supplemental research. … his argument has great merit. Bradshaw succeeds in creating an important text that illuminates the shared foundations of eastern and western philosophy and theology, and should be taken seriously for its validation of a tradition that values the ontological as much as the epistemological.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy'This book is …worthy of deep respect.' The Westminster Theological JournalTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The Aristotelian beginnings; 2. The prime mover; 3. Between Aristotle and Plotinus; 4. Plotinus and the theory of two acts; 5. The Plotinian heritage in the West; 6. Gods, demons and theurgy; 7. The formation of the eastern tradition; 8. The flowering of the eastern tradition; 9. Palamas and Aquinas; 10. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisOrthodox Christianity, building on its patristic foundations, has blossomed in the modern period. This volume focuses on the way Orthodox theological tradition is understood and lived today. As well as discussing aspects of doctrine, the book portrays the main figures, themes and developments that have helped to shape Orthodox thought.Trade Review'This is a remarkable book - as remarkable for the wide scope of its articles as for their quality.' The Messenger'This book can be read in many ways - as a summary of themes and movements, as a history of theological development, as a devotional meditation, and also as a piece of creative theological thinking in its own right.' Journal of Theological Studies'… an impressive collection of essays in the long tradition of the Cambridge Companions to Religion. Well worth adding to any library which has collections in this field and, especially the paperback edition, easily accessible for the bookshelves of individual scholars.' Reference Reviews'This book is truly what it sets out to be: a very useful 'companion' to Orthodox studies … It is refreshing and uncommon to see a useful and important resource on Orthodox Christian theology edited by two Western Orthodox women scholars; Cambridge University Press should be congratulated for entrusting the task to their competent hands.' Theology'This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the contemporary situation of Orthodox life and theology today.' The Expository Times' … this is an accessible and attractive collection, from which much can be learned.' The Journal of Church History'… prefaced by a concise … extremely helpful historical introduction to Orthodoxy and its communities, including those in the West, written by the editors … This book is truly what it sets out to be: a very useful 'companion' to Orthodox studies.' Theology'… a collection of very well written essays, which all say something important about their respective topic … a recommended volume.' SobornostTable of ContentsPart I. Doctrine and Tradition: 1. Who are the Orthodox Christians? A historical introduction Mary Cunningham and Elizabeth Theokritoff; 2. Scripture and tradition in the Church Theodore G. Stylianopoulos; 3. Biblical interpretation in worship Archimandrite Ephrem Lash; 4. God in Trinity Boris Bobrinskoy; 5. Creator and creation Elizabeth Theokritoff; 6. Christ and salvation Peter Bouteneff; 7. Eschatology Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev; 8. The Church Matthew Steenberg; 9. Theology of the icon Mariamna Fortounatto and Mary Cunningham; 10. The human person as image and likeness of God Nonna Verna Harrison; 11. The spiritual way John Chryssavgis; Part II. Contemporary Orthodox Theology: Its Formation and Character: 12. Church Fathers and the shaping of orthodox theology Augustine Casiday; 13. The patristic revival and its protagonists Andrew Louth; 14. The Russian religious revival and its theological legacy Michael Plekon; 15. Some key themes and figures in Greek theological thought Athanasios N. Papathanasiou; 16. Personhood and its exponents in twentieth-century orthodox theology Aristotle Papanikolaou; 17. The witness of the church in a pluralistic world: theological renaissance in the Church of Antioch Nicolas Abou Mrad; 18. Russian theology after totalitarianism Leonid Kishkovsky; 19. Orthodox Christianity in the West: the ecumenical challenge John Jillions.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most neglected. Inevitably, this emphasises differences in teachings and experience, but it also brings out common threads, most notably the resilience displayed in the face of alien and often hostile political regimes. The central theme is the survival against the odds of Orthodoxy in its many forms into the modern era. The last phase of Byzantium proves to have been surprisingly important in this survival. It provided Orthodoxy with the intellectual, artistic and spiritual reserves to meet later challenges. The continuing vitality of the Orthodox Churches is evident for example in the Sunday School Movement in Egypt and the Zoe brotherhood in Greece.Trade Review'It is easy and enlightening to follow the historical treat through the chapters of this book, which in a clear language defines the the technical terms, and produces very sound explanations on practically all aspects of Orthodoxy and Eastern Christianity. The book is written not only with scholarly precision, but also with love and dedication.' Neotestamenica'Scholars we owe a debt of thanks to the editor of this impressive work. Michael Angold, professor emeritus of Byzantine history at the University of Edinburgh, has done a magnificent job of touching on the highlights of Eastern Christianity in its many forms, including the Oriental churches. Chapters on the Copts, Melkites, Nestorians, and Jacobites make this volume a comprehensive history.' International Bulletin of Missionary ResearchTable of ContentsPart I. The Ecumenical Patriarchate: 1. The Byzantine commonwealth 1000–1500 Jonathan Shepard; 2. Byzantium and the West 1204–1453 Michael Angold; 3. The culture of lay piety in medieval Byzantium 1054–1453 Sharon E. J. Gerstel and Alice-Mary Talbot; 4. The rise of Hesychasm Dirk Krausmüller; 5. Art and liturgy in the later Byzantine Empire Nancy Ševčenko; 6. Mount Athos and the Ottomans 1350–1550 Elizabeth A. Zachariadou; 7. The Great Church in captivity 1453–1586 Elizabeth A. Zachariadou; 8. Orthodoxy and the West: Reformation to Enlightenment Paschalis M. Kitromilides; 9. Bars'ky and the Orthodox community Alexander Grishin; 10. The legacy of the French Revolution: Orthodoxy and Nationalism Paschalis M. Kitromilides; Part II. The Russian Church: 11. The Russian church: the first centuries 1000–1400 Stephen Rowell; 12. Russian piety and Orthodox culture 1380–1589 Stella Rock; 13. Art and liturgy in Russia: Rublev and his successors Lindsey Hughes; 14. Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia and Ukraine in the age of counter-Reformation Robert O. Crummey; 15. The Russian Orthodox church in Imperial Russia 1721–1917 Simon Dixon; 16. Russian piety and culture from Peter the Great to 1917 Chris Chulos; Part III. Eastern Christianities: 17. East Christianities (11th–14th centuries): Copts, Melkites, Nestorians and Jacobites Françoise Micheau; 18. The Armenians in the era of the Crusades (1050–1350) S. Peter Cowe; 19. Church and Diaspora: the case of the Armenians S. Peter Cowe; 20. Church and nation: the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo church (from the 13th to the 20th century) Donald Crummey; 21. Coptic Christianity in modern Egypt Anthony O'Mahony; 22. Syriac Christianity in the modern Middle East Anthony O'Mahony; Part IV. The Modern World: 23. Diaspora problems of the Russian emigration Sergei Hackel; 24. The Orthodox church and Communism Michael Bourdeaux and Alexandru Popescu; 25. Modern spirituality and the Orthodox church John Binns.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs the former director of the Coptic Museum, the author of this title is well qualified to write this volume. * American Reference Books Annual, August 2008 *

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