Selected Essays, Volume I
Studies in Patristics
Selected Essays, Volume I
Studies in Patristics
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192882813
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 17/08/2023
Width: 16.2 cm
Height: 24.2 cm
Taken together, these two volumes collect seventy-five essays written by Professor Andrew Louth over a forty-year period. Louth's contribution to scholarship and theology has always been significant, and these essays have been collected from journals and edited collections, many of which are difficult to access, and are here made available over two thought-provoking and wide-ranging volumes.
Volume I focuses on a variety of topics in Patristics, or early Christian studies. In these essays, Louth discusses early Christian thinkers from the early second century through to Photios of Constantinople in the east (in the tenth century) and Thomas Aquinas in the west (in the thirteenth century). Constant figures who appear at the heart of these volumes are Maximos the Confessor (c.580 - 662) and John of Damascus (676-749).
1: The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology
2: The Use of the Term idioc in Alexandrian theology from Alexander to Cyril
3: Ignatios or Eusebios: Two Models of Patristic Ecclesiology
4: On Being a Christian in Late Antiquity: St Basil the Great between the Desert and the City
5: St Gregory the Theologian and St Maximus the Confessor: The Shaping of Tradition
6: St Gregory the Theologian and Byzantine Theology
7: 'From Beginning to Beginning': Continuous Spiritual Progress in Gregory of Nyssa
8: St Makrina: the Fourth Cappadocian
9: Evagrios: The 'Noetic' Language of Prayer
10: Evagrios on Anger
11: Augustine on Language
12: St Augustine's Interpretation of the Transfiguration of Christ
13: Love and the Trinity: St Augustine and the Greek Fathers
14: 'Heart in Pilgrimage': St Augustine as Interpreter of the Psalms
15: Pagan Theurgy and Christian Sacramentalism in Denys the Areopagite
16: 'Truly visible things are manifest images of invisible things' (Ep. 10): Dionysios the Areopagite on knowing the invisible
17: The Reception of Dionysios in the East up to Maximos the Confessor
18: The Reception of Dionysios in the East from Maximos the Confessor to Gregory Palamas
19: Dionysios the Areopagite: the Unknown God and the Liturgy
20: St Maximos the Confessor between East and West
21: From Doctrine of Christ to Icon of Christ: St Maximos the Confessor on the Transfiguration of Christ
22: Eucharist and Church according to St Maximos the Confessor
23: The Views of St Maximos the Confessor on the Institutional Church
24: Virtue Ethics: St Maximos the Confessor and Aquinas compared
25: St Maximos' Doctrine of the Logoi
26: Mystagogy in St Maximos
27: The Lord's Prayer as Mystagogy from Origen to Maximos
28: St Maximos' Distinction between logos and tropos and the Ontology of the Person
29: Pronoia in the Life and Thought of St Maximos the Confessor
30: Sophia, the Wisdom of God, in St Maximos the Confessor
31: The Doctrine of the Image of God in St Maximos the Confessor
32: The Holy Spirit in the Theology of St John Damascene
33: John of Damascus on the Mother of God as the link between Humanity and God
34: The Doctrine of the Eucharist in the Iconoclast Controversy
35: Photios as a Theologian
36: Knowing the Unknowable: Hesychasm and the Kabbalah
37: Aquinas and Orthodoxy
