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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 Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first
acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of
Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has
shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close
alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm
entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including
detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families,
anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the
book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this
process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the
concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian
traditionalism as the result of conservative religious
modernization and the globalization of Christian social
conservatism. The Moralist International continues a line of
research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges
the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who
use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by
demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers
a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative
turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the
global culture wars. The Moralist International is available from
the publisher on an open-access basis.
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Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality (Paperback)
Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura, Aristotle Papanikolaou; Foreword by Metropolitan Ambrosius Helsinki; Contributions by Thomas Arentzen, …
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R1,010
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Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past
decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among
Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and
the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ
radically from those of other Christian denominations that have
already developed robust and creative reflections on sexuality and
sexual diversity. Within its unique history, theology, and
tradition, Orthodox Christianity holds rich resources for engaging
challenging questions of sexuality in new and responsive ways. What
is at stake in questions of sexuality in the Orthodox tradition?
What sources and theological convictions can uniquely shape
Orthodox understandings of sexuality? This volume aims to create an
agora for discussing sex, and not least the sexualities that are
often thought of as untraditional in Orthodox contexts. Through
fifteen distinct chapters, written by leading scholars and
theologians, this book offers a developed treatment of sexuality in
the Orthodox Christian world by approaching the subject from
scriptural, patristic, theological, historical, and sociological
perspectives. Chapters devoted to practical and pastoral insights,
as well as reflections on specific cultural contexts, engage the
human realities of sexual diversity and Christian life. From
re-thinking scripture to developing theologies of sex, from
eschatological views of eros to re-evaluations of the Orthodox
responses to science, this book offers new thinking on pressing,
present-day issues and initiates conversations about homosexuality
and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity.
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Faith, Reason, and Theosis (Paperback)
Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos; Contributions by William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, …
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R1,008
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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 aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also
interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the
twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative
sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic
club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that
they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or
fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this
volume move beyond this East–West divide by examining the
relation between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox,
Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are
addressed, such as the nature–grace debate and the relation of
philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse
thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius
the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas,
Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov,
John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans
Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a
current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit
minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors
in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of
complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also
continue the “theological achievement” of thinking about
theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to
stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an
ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of
God.
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 centuries after his death. However, following his
re-introduction in the thirteenth century, the Latin Church Father
served as an ecumenical figure, offering Latin and Byzantine
theologians a thinker with whom they could bridge linguistic,
cultural, and confessional divides. Contributors: Lewis Ayres, John
Behr, David Bradshaw, Brian E. Daley, George E. Demacopoulos,
Elizabeth Fisher, Reinhard Flogaus, Carol Harrison, David Bentley
Hart, Joseph T. Lienhard, Andrew Louth, Jean-Luc Marion, Aristotle
Papanikolaou, and David Tracy
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Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality (Hardcover)
Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura, Aristotle Papanikolaou; Foreword by Metropolitan Ambrosius Helsinki; Contributions by Thomas Arentzen, …
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R3,253
Discovery Miles 32 530
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Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past
decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among
Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and
the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ
radically from those of other Christian denominations that have
already developed robust and creative reflections on sexuality and
sexual diversity. Within its unique history, theology, and
tradition, Orthodox Christianity holds rich resources for engaging
challenging questions of sexuality in new and responsive ways. What
is at stake in questions of sexuality in the Orthodox tradition?
What sources and theological convictions can uniquely shape
Orthodox understandings of sexuality? This volume aims to create an
agora for discussing sex, and not least the sexualities that are
often thought of as untraditional in Orthodox contexts. Through
fifteen distinct chapters, written by leading scholars and
theologians, this book offers a developed treatment of sexuality in
the Orthodox Christian world by approaching the subject from
scriptural, patristic, theological, historical, and sociological
perspectives. Chapters devoted to practical and pastoral insights,
as well as reflections on specific cultural contexts, engage the
human realities of sexual diversity and Christian life. From
re-thinking scripture to developing theologies of sex, from
eschatological views of eros to re-evaluations of the Orthodox
responses to science, this book offers new thinking on pressing,
present-day issues and initiates conversations about homosexuality
and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity.
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Faith, Reason, and Theosis (Hardcover)
Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos; Contributions by William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, …
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R3,251
Discovery Miles 32 510
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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 aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also
interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the
twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative
sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic
club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that
they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or
fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this
volume move beyond this East–West divide by examining the
relation between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox,
Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are
addressed, such as the nature–grace debate and the relation of
philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse
thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius
the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas,
Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov,
John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans
Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a
current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit
minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors
in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of
complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also
continue the “theological achievement” of thinking about
theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to
stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an
ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of
God.
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 Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first
acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of
Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has
shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close
alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm
entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including
detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families,
anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the
book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this
process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the
concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian
traditionalism as the result of conservative religious
modernization and the globalization of Christian social
conservatism. The Moralist International continues a line of
research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges
the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who
use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by
demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers
a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative
turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the
global culture wars. The Moralist International is available from
the publisher on an open-access basis.
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 own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these
truth claims show up in healing modalities, the author creatively
engages both disciplines in order to highlight the possibilities
for healing contained therein. Dynamis of Healing elucidates how
theology and psychology are by no means fundamentally at odds with
each other but rather can work together in a beautiful and powerful
synergia to address both the deepest needs and deepest desires of
the human person for healing and flourishing.
Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award The collapse of communism
in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox
countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and
liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of
Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox world and in
Western political theology. Constructive theological essays feature
Catholic and Protestant theologians reflecting on the relationship
between Christianity and democracy, as well as Orthodox theologians
reflecting on their tradition's relationship to liberal democracy.
The essays explore prospects of a distinctively Christian politics
in a post-communist, post-Constantinian age.
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 brings to the foreground more than ever the question of
what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox
theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have
emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence
of the Holy Spirit. But how can we discern Tradition as living
discernment from fundamentalism? What does it mean to live in
Tradition when surrounded by something like the "secular"? These
essays interrogate these mutual implications, beginning from the
understanding that whatever secular or fundamentalist may mean,
they are not Tradition, which is historical, particularistic, in
motion, ambiguous and pluralistic, but simultaneously not
relativistic. Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis,
Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver
Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelic, Nadieszda Kizenko,
Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward, Darlene Fozard Weaver
The category of the 'West' has played a particularly significant
role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned
as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be
the essence of Orthodoxy, and, thus, ironically, has become a
constitutive aspect of the modern Orthodox self. The essays
collected in this volume examines the many factors that contributed
to the 'Eastern' construction of the 'West' in order to understand
why the 'West' is so important to the Eastern Christian's sense of
self.
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 own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these
truth claims show up in healing modalities, the author creatively
engages both disciplines in order to highlight the possibilities
for healing contained therein. Dynamis of Healing elucidates how
theology and psychology are by no means fundamentally at odds with
each other but rather can work together in a beautiful and powerful
synergia to address both the deepest needs and deepest desires of
the human person for healing and flourishing.
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the
theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been
historically important to questions of political theology. In The
Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy,
Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology grounded in
the principle of divine-human communion must be one that
unequivocally endorses a political community that is democratic in
a way that structures itself around the modern liberal principles
of freedom of religion, the protection of human rights, and
church-state separation. Papanikolaou hopes to forge a non-radical
Orthodox political theology that extends beyond a reflexive
opposition to the West and a nostalgic return to a Byzantine-like
unified political-religious culture. His exploration is prompted by
two trends: the fall of communism in traditionally Orthodox
countries has revealed an unpreparedness on the part of Orthodox
Christianity to address the question of political theology in a way
that is consistent with its core axiom of theosis; and recent
Christian political theology, some of it evoking the notion of
"deification," has been critical of liberal democracy, implying a
mutual incompatibility between a Christian worldview and that of
modern liberal democracy. The first comprehensive treatment from an
Orthodox theological perspective of the issue of the compatibility
between Orthodoxy and liberal democracy, Papanikolaou's is an
affirmation that Orthodox support for liberal forms of democracy is
justified within the framework of Orthodox understandings of God
and the human person. His overtly theological approach shows that
the basic principles of liberal democracy are not tied exclusively
to the language and categories of Enlightenment philosophy and, so,
are not inherently secular.
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 brings to the foreground more than ever the question of
what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox
theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have
emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence
of the Holy Spirit. But how can we discern Tradition as living
discernment from fundamentalism? What does it mean to live in
Tradition when surrounded by something like the "secular"? These
essays interrogate these mutual implications, beginning from the
understanding that whatever secular or fundamentalist may mean,
they are not Tradition, which is historical, particularistic, in
motion, ambiguous and pluralistic, but simultaneously not
relativistic. Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis,
Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver
Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelic, Nadieszda Kizenko,
Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward, Darlene Fozard Weaver
This book gathers a wide range of theological perspectives from
Orthodox European countries, Russia and the United States in order
to demonstrate how divergent the positions are within Orthodox
Christianity. Orthodoxy is often considered to be out-of-sync with
contemporary society, set apart in a world of its own where the
church intertwines with the state, in order to claim power over the
populace and ignore the individual voices of modern societies. As a
collective, these essays present a different understanding of the
relationship of Orthodoxy to secular politics; comprehensive,
up-to-date and highly relevant to politically understanding today's
world. The contributors present their views and arguments by
drawing lessons from the past, and by elaborating visions for how
Orthodox Christianity can find its place in the contemporary
liberal democratic order, while also drawing on the experience of
the Western Churches and denominations. Touching upon aspects such
as anarchism, economy and political theology, these contributions
examine how Orthodox Christianity reacts to liberal democracy, and
explore the ways that this branch of religion can be rendered more
compatible with political modernity.
This book gathers a wide range of theological perspectives from
Orthodox European countries, Russia and the United States in order
to demonstrate how divergent the positions are within Orthodox
Christianity. Orthodoxy is often considered to be out-of-sync with
contemporary society, set apart in a world of its own where the
church intertwines with the state, in order to claim power over the
populace and ignore the individual voices of modern societies. As a
collective, these essays present a different understanding of the
relationship of Orthodoxy to secular politics; comprehensive,
up-to-date and highly relevant to politically understanding today's
world. The contributors present their views and arguments by
drawing lessons from the past, and by elaborating visions for how
Orthodox Christianity can find its place in the contemporary
liberal democratic order, while also drawing on the experience of
the Western Churches and denominations. Touching upon aspects such
as anarchism, economy and political theology, these contributions
examine how Orthodox Christianity reacts to liberal democracy, and
explore the ways that this branch of religion can be rendered more
compatible with political modernity.
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the
theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been
historically important to questions of political theology. In The
Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy,
Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology grounded in
the principle of divine-human communion must be one that
unequivocally endorses a political community that is democratic in
a way that structures itself around the modern liberal principles
of freedom of religion, the protection of human rights, and
church-state separation. Papanikolaou hopes to forge a non-radical
Orthodox political theology that extends beyond a reflexive
opposition to the West and a nostalgic return to a Byzantine-like
unified political-religious culture. His exploration is prompted by
two trends: the fall of communism in traditionally Orthodox
countries has revealed an unpreparedness on the part of Orthodox
Christianity to address the question of political theology in a way
that is consistent with its core axiom of theosis; and recent
Christian political theology, some of it evoking the notion of
“deification,” has been critical of liberal democracy, implying
a mutual incompatibility between a Christian worldview and that of
modern liberal democracy. The first comprehensive treatment from an
Orthodox theological perspective of the issue of the compatibility
between Orthodoxy and liberal democracy, Papanikolaou’s is an
affirmation that Orthodox support for liberal forms of democracy is
justified within the framework of Orthodox understandings of God
and the human person. His overtly theological approach shows that
the basic principles of liberal democracy are not tied exclusively
to the language and categories of Enlightenment philosophy and, so,
are not inherently secular.
The central task of Being With God is an analysis of the relation
between apophaticism, trinitarian theology, and divine-human
communion through a critical comparison of the trinitarian
theologies of the Eastern Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky
(1903-58) and John Zizioulas (1931- ), arguably two of the most
influential Orthodox theologians of the past century. These two
theologians identify as the heart and center of all theological
discourse the realism of divine-human communion, which is often
understood in terms of the familiar Orthodox concept of theosis, or
divinization. The Incarnation, according to Lossky and Zizioulas,
is the event of a real divine-human communion that is made
accessible to all; God has become human so that all may participate
fully in the divine life. Aristotle Papanikolaou shows how an
ontology of divine-human communion is at the center of both
Lossky's and Zizioulas's theological projects. He also shows how,
for both theologians, this core belief is used as a
self-identifying marker against "Western" theologies. Papanikolaou
maintains, however, that Lossky and Zizioulas hold profoundly
different views on how to conceptualize God as the Trinity. Their
key difference is over the use of apophaticism in theology in
general and especially the relation of apophaticism to the doctrine
of the Trinity. For Lossky, apophaticism is the central
precondition for a trinitarian theology; for Zizioulas,
apophaticism has a much more restricted role in theological
discourse, and the God experienced in the eucharist is not the God
beyond being but the immanent life of the trinitarian God.
Papanikolaou provides readers with a richer understanding of
contemporary Orthodox theology through his analysis of the
consensus and debate between two leading Orthodox theologians.
The central task of "Being With God" is an analysis of the relation
between apophaticism, trinitarian theology, and divine-human
communion through a critical comparison of the trinitarian
theologies of the Eastern Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky
(1903-58) and John Zizioulas (1931-), arguably two of the most
influential Orthodox theologians of the past century. These two
theologians identify as the heart and center of all theological
discourse the realism of divine-human communion, which is often
understood in terms of the familiar Orthodox concept of theosis, or
divinization. The Incarnation, according to Lossky and Zizioulas,
is the event of a real divine-human communion that is made
accessible to all; God has become human so that all may participate
fully in the divine life. Aristotle Papanikolaou shows how an
ontology of divine-human communion is at the center of both
Lossky's and Zizioulas's theological projects. He also shows how,
for both theologians, this core belief is used as a
self-identifying marker against "Western" theologies, which both
see as excessively rationalistic. Papanikolaou maintains, however,
that Lossky and Zizioulas hold profoundly different views on how to
conceptualize God as the Trinity. Their key difference is over the
use of apophaticism in theology in general and especially the
relation of apophaticism to the doctrine of the Trinity. For
Lossky, apophaticism is the central precondition for a trinitarian
theology; for Zizioulas, apophaticism has a much more restricted
role in theological discourse, and the God experienced in the
eucharist is not the God beyond being but the immanent life of the
trinitarian God. Papanikolaou provides readers with a richer
understanding of contemporary Orthodox theology through his
analysis of the consensus and debate between two leading Orthodox
theologians.
Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award The collapse of communism
in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox
countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and
liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of
Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox world and in
Western political theology. Constructive theological essays feature
Catholic and Protestant theologians reflecting on the relationship
between Christianity and democracy, as well as Orthodox theologians
reflecting on their tradition's relationship to liberal democracy.
The essays explore prospects of a distinctively Christian politics
in a post-communist, post-Constantinian age.
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