Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present - Brossura

Louth, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0281071276 ISBN 13: 9780281071272

Casa editrice: SPCK, 2015

Riassunto

A lively and perceptive account of the lives, writings and enduring intellectual legacies of the great Orthodox theologians of the past 250 years. This book explores and explains the enduring influence of some of the world's greatest modern theologians. Starting with the influence of the Philokalia in nineteenth-century Russia, the book moves through the Slavophiles, Solov'ev, Florensky in Russia and then traces the story through the Christian intellectuals exiled from Stalin's Russia - Bulgakov, Berdyaev, Florovsky, Lossky, Lot-Borodine, Skobtsova - and a couple of theologians outside the Russian world: the Romanian Staniloae and the Serbian Popovich, both of whom studied in Paris. Andrew Louth then considers the contributions of the second generation Russians - Evdokimov, Meyendorff, Schmemann - and the theologians of Greece from the sixties onwards - Zizioulas, Yannaras, and others, as well as influential monks and spiritual elders, especially Fr Sophrony of the monastery in Essex and his mentor, St Silouan. The book concludes with an illuminating chapter on Metropolitan Kallistos and the theological vision of the Philokalia.

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This is a brilliant introduction to the living theology of the Orthodox Church since the publication of the Philokalia in 1782, revealing the amazing diversity and fecundity of the Orthodox theological tradition. This is sure to become the standard handbook on the ways of Orthodox theology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. --- John Behr, Dean, St Vladimir s Seminary, New York

We have needed this book for a long time. Praise to Andrew Louth for his extraordinary breadth and depth in painting a multicoloured portrait of the many faces of Orthodox theology since the late eighteenth century. --Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, and Consultant to the International Lutheran Orthodox Joint Commission

By following the trajectory of Orthodox thought wherever it has blossomed across the world, this revelatory book charts a whole new constellation in the cosmos of Eastern Christianity. --- Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Russian life

Rewarding and timely, Modern Orthodox Thinkers is both an informative introduction to a gallery of individual thinkers and a coherent meditation on the significance of Orthodox thought in the modern world. --Avril Pyman, FBA, Reader Emerita in Russian Literature, Durham University

The wonderfully surprising grace of this work is that it succeeds in communicating not only the thought of the major figures in modern Orthodox theology but the spiritual wellsprings of that thought in Orthodox prayer and liturgy. --- Khaled Anatolios, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Andrew Louth offers us an account of Eastern Christianity made up of men and women, of flesh and blood, engaged on the extraordinary project of the kingdom of God on earth . . . A book to read and reread. --Antoine Arjakovsky, Founding Director, Institute of Ecumenical Studies, Lviv, Ukraine, and Research Director, Collège des Bernardins, Paris

L'autore:

Andrew Louth is Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at Durham University, and also 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 the author of many books, including Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology (SPCK, 2013).

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• Editore: SPCK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0281071276
• ISBN 13: 9780281071272
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400