Introducing eastern orthodox theology
Andrew Louth, Introducing Eastern Orthodox theology, London: SPCK, 2013
Abstract
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With an estimated 250 million adherents, the Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian body in the world. This absorbing account of the essential elements of Eastern Orthodox thought deals with the Trinity, Christ, sin, humanity and creation as well as praying, icons, the sacraments and liturgy.
The Author
Andrew Louth is professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at Durham University, England, and visiting professor of Eastern Orthodox theology at the Amsterdam Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology (ACEOT), in the Faculty of Theology, the Free University, Amsterdam. He is also a priest of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh (Moscow Patriarchate), serving the parish in Durham. His recent publications include Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology, Greek East and Latin West, AD 681-1071, Maximus the Confessor and The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.
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Con circa 250 milioni di aderenti, la Chiesa ortodossa è il secondo gruppo cristiano più grande al mondo. Questo avvincente racconto degli elementi essenziali del pensiero ortodosso orientale riguarda la Trinità, Cristo, il peccato, l'umanità e la creazione così come le preghiere, le icone, i sacramenti e la liturgia.
L'autore:
Andrew Louth è professore emerito di studi patristici e bizantini all'Università di Durham, in Inghilterra, e visiting professor di teologia ortodossa orientale presso il Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology di Amsterdam (ACEOT) presso la Facoltà di Teologia della Free University. è inoltre sacerdote della diocesi ortodossa russa di Sourozh (Patriarcato di Mosca), che serve la parrocchia di Durham. Le sue recenti pubblicazioni includono "Introducing The Eastern Orthodox Theology", "Greek East and Latin West, AD 681-1071", "Maximus the Confessor e The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition"
Lingua: inglese
Preface
Introduction: who are the Eastern Orthodox?
1 Thinking and doing, being and praying: where do we start?
Standing before the mystery of God
Approaching theology
Encountering Christ
The Scriptures
Orthodox use of the Scriptures
The Fathers, Councils, liturgical prayer
2 Who is God? The doctrine of the Holy Trinity
Who is Christ?
God as the One to whom we pray
... using the words he himself has given us
God as Trinity
Prayer and the Trinity
The Holy Spirit
The dogma of the Trinity
The Trinity and the apophatic
Coinherence and love in the Trinity
The fundamental nature of the apophatic
3 The doctrine of creation
The early Christian doctrine of creation
Creation out of nothing
Essence and energies
Logoi of creation
Sophiology
Angels and demons
4 Who is Christ?
Christ and the Gospels
hrist and the resurrection
Christ and the apostolic witness
Death and Christ's voluntary passion
Christ and prayer
The dogma of Christ
The Christology of the Councils
5 Sin, death and repentance
Repentance and Christ
Beauty and disorder
Human kind and the Fall
Death and sin
Adam and ancestral sin
Sin and the cosmos
Ancestral sin and evolution
Adam and Eve...and repentance
6 Being human — being in the image of God
The doctrine of the image of God
The image of God in the Fathers
Image and logos
Image and Christ
Person and community
The Church — one and many
Sobornost' and the Church
7 Sacraments and icons: the place of matter in the divine economy
Christian materialism
Mystery or sacrament?
Images and symbols
Seven sacraments?
The sacramental structure of the Church
The sacramental shape of human life
Sacramental symbolism
Symbolism and sacramental transformation
Icons
cons and the 'in-between'
The icon and the face
Icons and the Mother of God
Icons and prayer
8 Time and the liturgy
Theology and participation
Participation and the divine liturgy
Time and space — cycles of change
The Church Year — cycles of time
Cycles — of meaning or unmeaning
The symbolism of the liturgy
Liturgical dance
9 Where are we going?
The last things and eternal life
Eucharist as eschatology
Universal eschatology
Individual eschatology
Problems in eschatology
The nature of the resurrection body
Universal salvation
A guide to further reading
Index
