Selected Essays, Volume I
Studies in Patristics
Published on 17. August 2023
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434 pages
978-0-19-288281-3 (ISBN)
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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).
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).
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English
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Oxford
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Persons
Andrew Louth is Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He is the editor of the journal Sobornost, and editor, with Professor Gillian Clark, of the series Oxford Early Christian Studies and Oxford Early Christian Texts.
Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic & Historical Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
John Behr is Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen.
Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic & Historical Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
John Behr is Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen.
Author
Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine StudiesEmeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University
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Professor of Catholic & Historical TheologyDepartment of Theology and Religion, Durham University
Regius Professor of HumanityUniversity of Aberdeen
Content
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