Selected essays. Volume I, Studies in patristics / Andrew Louth ; edited by Lewis Ayres and John Behr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherwood, Polycarp, translator, writer of added commentary.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Asceticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, New Jersey : Paulist Press, 1955.

System Details:

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Summary:

Taken together, these two volumes collect 75 essays written by Professor Andrew Louth over a 40-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.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Editors Preface and Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

I

II

1. The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology

2. The Use of the Term ἴδιος 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: Saint Augustine and the Greek Fathers

Augustine on Love and the Trinity

Clement and Maximos

Conclusion

14. Heart in Pilgrimage: St Augustine's Reading of the Psalms

15. Pagan Theurgy and Christian Sacramentalism in Denys the Areopagite

Pagan Theurgy

Θεουργία in Denys

Sacramental Efficacy in Denys

16. 'Truly Visible Things Are Manifest Images of Invisible Things': Dionysios the Areopagite on Knowing the Invisible

17. The Reception of Dionysius up to Maximus the Confessor

18. The Reception of Dionysius in the Byzantine World: Maximus to Palamas

Maximus' Christological Use of Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology

The Maximian Doctrine of the Logoi

19. Dionysios the Areopagite: The Unknown God and the Liturgy

20. St Maximus the Confessor between East and West

21. From the Doctrine of Christ to Person 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 EthicsSt Maximos the Confessor and Aquinas Compared

Virtue in St Maximos the Confessor

Virtue in Thomas Aquinas

Virtue in Fr Stăniloae and Josef Pieper

25. St Maximos' Doctrine of the Logoi of Creation

26. Mystagogy in Saint Maximus

Maximus' Mystagogia

The Lord's Prayer in Maximus' Mystagogia

Entering into the Lord's Prayer

Virtue and Intellect in the Mystagogia

Earth and Heaven, Church and Soul

Concluding Remarks

27. The Lord's Prayer as Mystagogy from Origen to Maximos

Origen

Gregory of Nyssa

Maximos the Confessor

28. St Maximos' Distinction between λόγος and τρόπος 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

Introduction: The Puzzle of Maximos' Doctrine of the Image, a Survey of Recent Scholarship

The Notion of the Image

Image and Likeness

The Broader Context of the Image

32. The Holy Spirit in the Theology of St John Damascene

33. John of Damascus on the Mother of God as a Link between Humanity and God

34. The Doctrine of the Eucharist in the Iconoclast Controversy

The Iconoclast Argument against Icons

Traditional Nature of the Iconoclast Argument

The Orthodox Response and the Eucharist

Eucharistic Theology in East and West

35. Photios as a Theologian

36. Knowing the Unknowable God: Hesychasm and the Kabbalah

An Historical Connection?

Differences in Genre?

The Kabbalah on the Godhead

Hesychasm and the Vision of the Uncreated Light

Three Aspects of the Hesychastic Way.

Mysticism and Asceticism

The Unknowable and the Knowable in God

The Transfiguration and the Shekhinah

Two Parallel Traditions?

37. Aquinas and Orthodoxy

Dionysios the Areopagite

St John Damascene

The Fourteenth-Century Controversy

The Babylonian Captivity of Orthodox Theology

Modern Orthodox Theology

Details of Original Publication

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809170494

0809170493

9780191976919

0191976911

9780192882899

0192882899

9780192882905

0192882902

OCLC:

1483695446