Selected Essays, Volume II: Studies in Theology

Taken together, these two volumes collect seventy-five essays written by Professor Andrew Louth over a forty-year period. Louth's contribution to scholarship and theology has always been significant, and these essays have been collected from journals and edited collections, many of which are difficult to access, and are here made available over two thought-provoking and wide-ranging volumes. Volume II collects essays on a variety of theological topics, arranged chronologically, showing the development of Louth's thought since 1978. Throughout this collection the nature of 'theology', as it is understood within Orthodox tradition, is a constant concern. These essays offer distinctive reflections on categories -- such as 'development of doctrine' -- that have become foundational in modern western thought but which must be viewed rather differently from an Orthodox perspective. The legacy of modern Russian Orthodox thought -- especially the key figures of the twentieth century Russian diaspora -- is under constant consideration, and forms a constant dialogue partner.

Table of Contents:
1: The Hermeneutical Question approached through the Fathers 2: As if Julian the Apostate had written a history of early Church dogma... 3: The Place of The Heart of the World in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar 4: Eros and Mysticism: Early Christian Interpretation of the Song of Songs 5: The Image of Heloise in English Literature 6: Theological Reflections on Pilgrimage 7: The Theology of the Philokalia 8: Theology, Contemplation, and the University 9: Father Sergii Bulgakov on the Mother of God 10: The Eucharist in the Theology of Fr Sergii Bulgakov 11: The Jesus Prayer and the theology of Deification in Fr Pavel Florensky and Fr Sergii Bulgakov 12: Is the Development of Doctrine a valid category for Orthodox Theology? 13: The Authority of the Fathers in the Western Orthodox Diaspora in the Twentieth Century 14: Pagans and Christians on Providence 15: What is Theology? What is Orthodox Theology? 16: The Place of Oewoic in Orthodox Theology 17: Inspiration of the Scriptures 18: Sergii Bulgakov and the Task of Theology 19: Space, Time, and the Liturgy 20: Apostolicity and the Apostle Andrew in the Byzantine Tradition 21: Holiness and Sanctity in the Early Church 22: The Influence of the Philokalia in the Orthodox World 23: Experiencing the Liturgy in Byzantium 24: Theology of the 'in-between' 25: Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani: Conversion, community and Christian identity in Late Antiquity 26: Analogy in Karl Barth and Orthodoxy Theology 27: Easter, Calendar, Cosmos: an Orthodox View 28: Pseudonymity and Secret Tradition in Early Christianity: some reflections on the development of Mariology 29: The Recovery of the Icon 30: Mary the Mother of God and Ecclesiology: some Orthodox Reflections 31: What did Vladimir Lossky mean by 'mystical theology'? 32: The Slav Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim 33: Reflections inspired by Cardinal Grillmeier's Der Logos am Kreuz 34: Bulgakov and Russian Sophiology 35: Exile, Hospitality, Sobornost': the Experience of the Russian Émigrés 36: Eucharistic Doctrine and Eucharistic Devotion 37: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Byzantine Theology

About the Author :
Andrew Louth is Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He is the editor of the journal Sobornost, and editor, with Professor Gillian Clark, of the series Oxford Early Christian Studies and Oxford Early Christian Texts. Lewis Ayres is a Professor of Catholic & Historical Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. John Behr is Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen.