Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition: Early, Medieval, and Modern Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781472472786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 202 str.

Alexis Torrance; Symeon Paschalidis

Opis

Bringing together international scholars from across a range of linked disciplines (theology, history, Byzantine studies and philosophy) to examine the concept of the person in the Greek Christian East, Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition stretches in its scope from the New Testament to contemporary debates surrounding personhood in Eastern Orthodoxy. Contributions explore various dimensions of the issue in specific historical contexts that have not hitherto received the scholarly attention they deserve. The volume thus brings forward an important debate over the roots of contemporary notions of personhood and will provide a key stimulus to further work in this area.

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Introduction, Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis  Section I – Ancient Christian, Early Byzantine  1 Personal relationship as a prerequisite for moral imitation according to the Apostle Paul, Christos Karakolis  2 Emotional "scripts" and personal moral identity: insights from the Greek Fathers, Paul M. Blowers  3 Personhood in miaphysitism: Severus of Antioch and John Philoponus, Johannes Zachhuber  Section II – Early to Middle Byzantine  4 Hypostasis, person and individual according to St Maximus the Confessor, with reference to the Cappadocians and St John of Damascus, Jean-Claude Larchet  5 Mary, the Mother of God, in dialogue: the drama of personal encounter in the Byzantine liturgical tradition, Mary B. Cunningham  6 Personification in Byzantine hymnography: kontakia and canons, Damaskinos Olkinuora  Section III – Late Byzantine  7 The exemplar of consubstantiality: St. Gregory Palamas’ hesychast as an expression of a microcosmic approach to personhood, Demetrios Harper  8 Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki: the historical dimension of the person, Marie-Hélène Congourdeau  9 Freedom, necessity and the laws of nature in the thought of Gennadios Scholarios, Matthew C. Briel  Section IV – Modern  10 Flesh and Spirit: divergent Orthodox readings of the iconic body in Byzantium and the twentieth century, Evan Freeman  11 Nikos Nissiotis, the "theology of the ’60s" and personhood: continuity or discontinuity? Nikolaos Asproulis  12 Eastern Christian conceptions of personhood and their political significance, Nicolas Prevelakis  13 Consubstantial Selves: a discussion between Orthodox personalism, existential psychology, Heinz Kohut, and Jean-Luc Marion, Nicholas Loudovikos