A Celebration of Living Theology: A Festschrift in Honour of Andrew Louth

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This volume brings together an international range of world-class scholars to engage with Andrew Louth’s work and its influence on modern Theology. Andrew Louth is well known and influential in the English-speaking circles but also in the non-English Orthodox world, especially across Eastern Europe. The interaction between these theological groups remains sparse and intermittent. By drawing together scholars from the three main branches of Christianity and from around the world, this volume helps to increase our knowledge and exposure between these different spheres. This volume comprises of articles on Patristics, Byzantine Fathers, Latin Fathers, Modern Christianity, Theology as Life and the reception of Louth’s work outside the English-speaking world. The papers are written by the leading scholars, such as Lewis Ayres, John Milbank, Kallistos Ware and Thomas Graumann. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors The Editors Preface Introduction Part 1: Patristics 1 Reading the Fathers Today Fragmentation Integration 2 Authority and Doctrinal Normation in Patristic Discourse: The Nicene Creed at the First Council of Ephesus Part 2: Byzantine Theology 3 The Impact of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on Byzantine Theologians of the Eighth Century: The Concept of ‘Image’ 4 Why should we read Middle Byzantine Fathers? 5 ‘Myriad of Names to Represent Her Nobleness’: The Church and the Virgin Mary in the Psalms and Hymns of Byzantium The question of the Virgin’s transformations The mature Byzantine tradition The key role of hymns to the Mother of God The middle hymnic tradition The contribution of dramatized exegesis The earlier tradition Original multiplicity Conclusion Part 3: East and West in Dialogue 6 Christianity and Platonism in East and West Introduction Simplicity, participation and the theurgic Palamas, Scotus and the formal distinction Participation in Platonic and Christian tradition Divine action and human theurgy Essence and energies The Genealogy of forms The twin legacies of neoplatonism Energy and theophany Action and participation: Why Aquinas is more Byzantine than Palamas Eschatology and the crisis of mediation: West, East and further East 7 Boethius the Theologian Introduction Opuscula theologica The Consolation Part 4: Modern Theology 8 Towards a Fair History of Christian Orthodoxy The apophatic historiography of the Orthodox Church The limits of apophatic historiography A fair historiography Conclusion 9 Vladimir Lossky’s Reception of Georges Florovsky’s Neo-Patristic Theology Part 5: The Future of Patristics 10 Patristics after Neo-Patristic Patristics as an Orthodox self-identity Method in Patristics Neo-Patristic synthesis and Personalism Dialectics of Neo-Patristic synthesis and the Russian Religious Renaissance The future of Patristic studies Language of the Fathers Complexity of Fathers’ voices 11 ‘Following the Holy Fathers’: Is there a Future for Patristic Studies? Continuity in the midst of change Who are the Fathers? Why study the Fathers? How should the Fathers be studied? A Bibliography of Prof Andrew Louth Bibliography Index of References