Alexis Torrance is the Archbishop Demetrios Associate Professor of Byzantine Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2014. He took his degrees at the University of Oxford and has held research fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC.

This book is the best anglophone book in Byzantine theology of the past twenty years. It has a strong claim to being the most important book in Byzantine theology in any Western language since Vladimir Lossky's The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (1944).

• Preface Acknowledgements 1: Human perfection in Orthodox theological anthropology: retrieving the Christological imperative 2: Perpetual progress or eternal rest? Contemplating the eschaton in St Maximus the Confessor 3: Perfection before our eyes: St Theodore the Studite on the humanity of Christ 4: I am called by two names, human and divine: dogma and deification in St Symeon the New Theologian 5: The energy of deification and the person of Jesus Christ in St Gregory Palamas Conclusion

Alexis Torrance is the Archbishop Demetrios Associate Professor of Byzantine Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2014. He took his degrees at the University of Oxford and has held research fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC.

This book is the best anglophone book in Byzantine theology of the past twenty years. It has a strong claim to being the most important book in Byzantine theology in any Western language since Vladimir Lossky's The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (1944).

• Preface Acknowledgements 1: Human perfection in Orthodox theological anthropology: retrieving the Christological imperative 2: Perpetual progress or eternal rest? Contemplating the eschaton in St Maximus the Confessor 3: Perfection before our eyes: St Theodore the Studite on the humanity of Christ 4: I am called by two names, human and divine: dogma and deification in St Symeon the New Theologian 5: The energy of deification and the person of Jesus Christ in St Gregory Palamas Conclusion

Alexis Torrance is the Archbishop Demetrios Associate Professor of Byzantine Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2014. He took his degrees at the University of Oxford and has held research fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC.

This book is the best anglophone book in Byzantine theology of the past twenty years. It has a strong claim to being the most important book in Byzantine theology in any Western language since Vladimir Lossky's The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (1944).

• Preface Acknowledgements 1: Human perfection in Orthodox theological anthropology: retrieving the Christological imperative 2: Perpetual progress or eternal rest? Contemplating the eschaton in St Maximus the Confessor 3: Perfection before our eyes: St Theodore the Studite on the humanity of Christ 4: I am called by two names, human and divine: dogma and deification in St Symeon the New Theologian 5: The energy of deification and the person of Jesus Christ in St Gregory Palamas Conclusion