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Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church

By John D. Zizioulas

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0881410292, 9780881410297
LCC
BX323 .Z59 1985
Open Library ID
OL3021928M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17661923 bytes)
Series
Contemporary Greek Theologians 4
Pages
269\137
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The voice of John Zizioulas may turn out to be the fresh voice for which theology and especially ecclesiology have long been waiting. In the context of a complete theology, which includes extended consideration of the major theological topics the Trinity, Christology, eschatology, ministry, and sacrament, but above all, the Eucharist the author propounds a fresh understanding, based on the early Fathers and the Orthodox tradition, of the concept of person, and so of the Church itself. His consideration of the local church as 'catholic' in the literal sense, and the need to understand the universal Church not as a superstructure but as the communion of all Churches, provides the program for the ecclesiology of the future. Yves Congar has written that he considers the author to be 'one of the most original and profound theologians of our epoch' and that he 'presents a penetrating and coherent reading of the tradition of the Greek '

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