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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Sarah Bakker Kellogg

Sarah Bakker Kellogg

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community’s struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacementTo the extent...

ISBN: 9781531509132

The Covenant's Veil

The Covenant's Veil

Alexandra Sellassie Antohin

Alexandra Sellassie Antohin

An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships“Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God,” the narrative of Sheba and Solomon,...

ISBN: 9781531508654

Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America

Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America

A. G. Roeber

A. G. Roeber

A 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...

ISBN: 9781531505042

Faith, Reason, and Theosis

Faith, Reason, and Theosis

Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos, William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, Robert Glenn Davis, Stephen J. Davis, David Bentley Hart, Philip Kariatlis, Jean Porter, Andrew Prevot, Ashley M. Purpura, Kirsi Stjerna, Michele Watkins, Rowan Williams, Ashley M. Purpura, Aristotle Papanikolaou

Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos

Contributor(s): William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, Robert Glenn Davis, Stephen J. Davis, David Bentley Hart, Philip Kariatlis, Jean Porter, Andrew Prevot, Ashley M. Purpura, Kirsi Stjerna, Michele Watkins and Rowan Williams

Theosis 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...

ISBN: 9781531503024

Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy

Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy

Bryce E. Rich

Bryce E. Rich

Within 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...

ISBN: 9781531501532

The Moralist International

The Moralist International

Kristina Stoeckl, Dmitry Uzlaner, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ashley M. Purpura

Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner

The 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...

ISBN: 9781531502157

Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality

Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality

Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Helsinki Ambrosius Metropolitan, Thomas Arentzen, Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou, Katerina Kocandrle Bauer, John Behr, Davor Džalto, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Michael Hjälm, Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Andrii Krawchuk, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ashley M. Purpura, Richard René, Bryce E. Rich, Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Dmitry Uzlaner, Haralambos Ventis, Gayle E. Woloschak

Edited by Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura and Aristotle Papanikolaou

Contributor(s): Thomas Arentzen, Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou, Katerina Kocandrle Bauer, John Behr, Davor Džalto, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Michael Hjälm, Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Andrii Krawchuk, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ashley M. Purpura, Richard René, Bryce E. Rich, Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Dmitry Uzlaner, Haralambos Ventis and Gayle E. Woloschak

This book offers theological, historical, and sociological treatments of sexuality in the Orthodox Christian world. It presents both academic and pastoral reflections on sex, seeking to open up the conversation about homosexuality and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity, aiming to create an agora for discussing the sexualities that are often thought of as untraditional.

ISBN: 9780823299676

Between Heaven and Russia

Between Heaven and Russia

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignment with Russian conservative politics by contemporary rural American citizens.

ISBN: 9780823299508

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Ina Merdjanova, Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Detelina Tocheva

Edited by Ina Merdjanova

Contributor(s): Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and Detelina Tocheva

This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. It critically engages the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox forms of institutional and social life in relation to gender by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic research.

ISBN: 9780823298617

Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

Davor Džalto

Davor Džalto

Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of “anarchism” both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely...

ISBN: 9780823294398

Welcoming Finitude

Welcoming Finitude

Christina M. Gschwandtner

Christina M. Gschwandtner

What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does...

ISBN: 9780823289837

Fundamentalism or Tradition

Fundamentalism or Tradition

Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos, R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis, Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelić, Nadieszda Kizenko, Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward, Darlene Fozard Weaver

Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos

Contributor(s): R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis, Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelić, Nadieszda Kizenko, Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward and Darlene Fozard Weaver

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

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

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

The Garb of Being

The Garb of Being

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

Edited by Georgia Frank, Susan Holman and Andrew Jacobs

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

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

Orthodox Readings of Augustine

Orthodox Readings of Augustine

Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos

Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos

Orthodox Readings of Augustine examines the theological engagement with the preeminent Latin theologian Augustine of Hippo in the Orthodox context. Augustine was not widely read in the East until many...

ISBN: 9780823288601

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

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

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

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

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

Redemption

Nicholas Roumas

Nicholas Roumas

A bold, trailblazing investigation into soteriology, approached by way of Girardian mimetic theory and Eastern Orthodox theological reflection.Redemption: A Mimetic Soteriology brings French literary...

ISBN: 9781531510558

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

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 World represents...

ISBN: 9780823231713