Modern Orthodox thinkers
from the Philokalia to the present
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Author
Publication
2015 - SPCK, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
95,500 words, Guess
Page Count
382 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100281071276
- ISBN-139780281071272
- ISBN-139780281071289
- ISBN-100281071284
- Library of Congress Control Number2014482979
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number919299505
- Better World Books9780281071289
- Better World Books9780281071272
- Open LibraryOL31296756M
Classifications
- DDC281.9
- LCCBX320.3 .L6873 2015
- LCCBX320.3.L6873 2015
Description
Andrew Louth, one of the most respected authorities on Orthodoxy, introduces us to twenty key thinkers from the last two centuries. He begins with the Philokalia, the influential Orthodox collection published in 1782 which marked so many subsequent writers. The colorful characters, poets and thinkers who populate this book range from Romania, Serbia, Greece, England, France and also include exiles from Communist Russia. Louth offers historical and biographical sketches that help us understand the thought and impact of these men and women. Only some of them belong to the ranks of professional theologians. Many were neither priests nor bishops, but influential laymen. The book concludes with an illuminating chapter on Metropolitan Kallistos and the theological vision of the Philokalia. - Publisher.
Description
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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