Orthodox Christianity & Contemporary Thought

Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University, and Ashley M. Purpura, Purdue University

This series consists of books that seek to bring Orthodox Christianity into an engagement with contemporary forms of thought. Its goal is to promote historical studies in Orthodox Christianity that are interdisciplinary, employ a variety of methods, and speak to contemporary issues; and constructive theological arguments in conversation with patristic sources and that focus on contemporary questions ranging from the traditional theological and philosophical themes of God and human identity to cultural, political, economic, and ethical concerns. The books in the series will explore both the relevancy of Orthodox Christianity to contemporary challenges and the impact of contemporary modes of thought on Orthodox self-understandings.

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Colonizing Christianity

Colonizing Christianity

George E. Demacopoulos

George E. Demacopoulos

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. It argues that the experience colonization splintered the Greek community, which could not agree how best to respond to the Latin other.

ISBN: 9780823284436

Dynamis of Healing

Dynamis of Healing

Pia Sophia Chaudhari, Ashley M. Purpura, Aristotle Papanikolaou

Pia Sophia Chaudhari

This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its...

ISBN: 9780823284641

Liturgical Theology after Schmemann

Liturgical Theology after Schmemann

Brian A. Butcher, Andrew Louth, FBA

Brian A. Butcher

French philosopher Paul Ricoeur gave sustained attention to several themes pertinent to a hermeneutics of liturgy, including symbol, metaphor, narrative, subjectivity and memory. This book explores how Ricoeur’s original insights may serve to renew contemporary Orthodox liturgical theology. The Byzantine-Rite “Great Blessing of Water” serves as a case study.

ISBN: 9780823278756

God, Hierarchy, and Power

God, Hierarchy, and Power

Ashley M. Purpura

Ashley M. Purpura

Presents an interpretation of power and authority in the Orthodox Christian theological tradition by examining four Byzantine authors on the topic of ecclesiastical hierarchy in theoretical, ritual, and pragmatic contexts. Discusses potential application of the interpretation for 21st century scholars and ecclesial participants.

ISBN: 9780823278374

Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine

Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine

George E. Demacopoulos, Aristotle Papanikolaou

Edited by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou

A collection of essays by Orthodoxy, Catholic, and Protestant scholars on Christianity’s relationship to liberal democracy and the legacy of Emperor Constantine for Christian political thought.

ISBN: 9780823274208

Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe

Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe

Lucian N. Leustean

Edited by Lucian N. Leustean

This book explores the impact of nationalism on Orthodox Christianity in nineteenth-century South-Eastern Europe. It analyses the challenges posed by nationalism to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the ways in which Orthodox Churches engaged in the nationalist ideology in Greece, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.

ISBN: 9780823256068

Orthodox Constructions of the West

Orthodox Constructions of the West

George E. Demacopoulos, Aristotle Papanikolaou

Edited by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou

The essays collected in this volume represent an ecumenical and interdisciplinary engagement with the numerous factors that have come to comprise the multiple and often ambivalent contours of “Eastern” Christian attitudes towards an ambiguous, multiform, and ever-changing “West.”

ISBN: 9780823251933

Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration

Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration

John Chryssavgis, Bruce V. Foltz, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Bill McKibben

Edited by John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz

Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial...

ISBN: 9780823251452

Dialogue of Love

Dialogue of Love

John Chryssavgis

Edited by John Chryssavgis

In 1964, a little noticed, albeit pioneering encounter in the Holy Land between the heads of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church spawned numerous contacts and diverse openings between the two “sister churches,” which had not communicated with one another for centuries. This year, fifty years later, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will meet again in Jerusalem to commemorate that historical event and celebrate the close relations that have developed through mutual exchanges of formal visits and an official theological dialogue that began in 1980.

ISBN: 9780823264001

Fundamentalism or Tradition

Fundamentalism or Tradition

George E. Demacopoulos, Aristotle Papanikolaou

Edited by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou

Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist—all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation, they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay...

ISBN: 9780823285785

In the World, Yet Not of the World

In the World, Yet Not of the World

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, John Chryssavgis, José Manuel Barroso

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Edited by John Chryssavgis

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew speaks to a contemporary world about, human rights, religious tolerance, international peace, environmental protection, and more.In the World, Yet Not of the...

ISBN: 9780823231713

The Garb of Being

The Garb of Being

Georgia Frank, Andrew Jacobs, Susan Holman, Thomas Arentzen, Georgia Frank, Constance Furey, Sidney Griffith, Susan Holman, Andrew Jacobs, Frances Young, Arthur Urbano, Caroline Schroeder, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rebecca Krawiec, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Sebastian Brock, Suzanne Abrams Rebillard

Edited by Georgia Frank, Andrew Jacobs and Susan Holman

Contributor(s): Thomas Arentzen, Georgia Frank, Constance Furey, Sidney Griffith, Susan Holman, Andrew Jacobs, Frances Young, Arthur Urbano, Caroline Schroeder, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rebecca Krawiec, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Sebastian Brock and Suzanne Abrams Rebillard

This collection of essays explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique practice and religious imagination through stories from the eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies from antiquity subject to modern interpretations.

ISBN: 9780823287024

Welcoming Finitude

Welcoming Finitude

Christina M. Gschwandtner

Christina M. Gschwandtner

Welcoming Finitude provides a philosophical (i.e., phenomenological) examination of the experience of liturgy, based on the example of Orthodox Christian liturgy, as it manifests in terms of time, space, corporeality, senses, affect, and the interaction with other people. It thus uncovers some of the basic structures of religious ritual experience.

ISBN: 9780823286430

On Earth as in Heaven

On Earth as in Heaven

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, John Chryssavgis, His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Edited by John Chryssavgis

Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed alarming environmental degradation—climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the pollution of natural resources—together with a failure...

ISBN: 9780823238859

Speaking the Truth in Love

Speaking the Truth in Love

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, John Chryssavgis, Dr. Rowan Williams Canterbury Archbishop of

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Edited by John Chryssavgis

The second of three volumes of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s writings, this book includes a selection of major addresses and significant statements by the “first among equals”...

ISBN: 9780823233373

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 3 Volume Set

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 3 Volume Set

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, John Chryssavgis

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Edited by John Chryssavgis

Special three-volume anniversary collection packed in an attractive slip case!

ISBN: 9780823241293