Living Christ

John Chryssavgis is Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Throne and Honorary Professor of Theology at the Sydney College of Divinity, Australia.Brandon Gallaher is a Deacon of the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, and Senior Lecturer of Systematic and Comparative Theology at the University of Exeter, UK.

• Preface: His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew IForeword: John Zizioulas (Metropolitan of Pergamon, Ecumenical Patriarchate)Introduction: John Chryssavgis and Brandon Gallaher.PART I GEORGES FLOROVSKY: LIFE AND WORK1.The Theological Legacy of Archpriest Georges FlorovskyEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew2.The Diachronic Significance of Fr. Georges Florovsky’s Theological ContributionMetropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon3.Three Witnesses: Bulgakov, Florovsky, Lossky*Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia4.Georges Florovsky and the Sophiological Controversy*Alexis Klimoff5.Georges Florovsky and Sergius Bulgakov: "In Peace Let Us Love One Another”Paul Ladouceur6.Father Georges Florovsky and Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov: A Theological EncounterNikolai Sakharov7.The Newly Published Correspondence between Fr. Georges Florovsky and Fr. Alexander Schmemann: Reflections on LeadershipPaul L. Gavrilyuk8.A “Theology of Facts”: Christ in the Theological Thought of Fr. Georges Florovsky and Fr. John MeyendorffJoost van RossumPART II NEOPATRISTIC SYNTHESIS: THEOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY9.“Waiting for the Barbarians”: Identity and Polemicism in the Neopatristic Synthesis of Georges Florovsky*Brandon Gallaher10.Neopatristic Synthesis and Ecumenism: Toward the “Reintegration” of Christian Tradition*Matthew Baker (+2015)11.The Ecclesial Hellenism of Fr. Georges Florovsky*Christos Yannaras12.The Emergence of the Neopatristic Synthesis: Content, Challenges, Limits*Marcus Plested13.Christian Hellenism in the Neopatristic Synthesis of Archpriest Georges FlorovskyMetropolitan Chrysostomos (Savvatos) of Messinia14.Apophaticism, Cataphaticism, Mystical Theology and the Christian Hellenism of Fr. Georges Florovsky*Pantelis Kalaitzidis15.Florovsky’s “Predicament of the Christian Historian” and the Orthodox Church’s Predicament with History TodayVassa Larin16.From Synthesis to SymphonyJohn BehrPART III THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIOLOGY:HISTORY AND MISSION17.Beginning with Christ: the Key to Anthropology in the Dogmatic Work of FlorovskyAlexis Torrance18.Creatio ex nihilo and creatio ex amore: Florovsky, Bulgakov, and Zizioulas in Dialogue on Theological MethodologyNikolaos Asproulis19.Ecclesiology in Relation to History: Church and World in the Christian Vision of Fr. Georges FlorovskyWill Cohen20.Overcoming Florovsky’s Opposition of the Charismatic to the Canonical in “On the Limits of the Church”*Alexander Rentel21.Fr. Georges Florovsky and Mission: Witness “To,” “With,” or “Beyond” “Sacred Hellenism”?Athanasios N. Papathanasiou22.The Timeliness of the Patristic Thought, and the Contribution of Fr. Georges Florovsky to Contemporary Theological DialogueMetropolitan Gennadios (Limouris) of Sassima23.Georges Florovsky and the World Council of ChurchesArchbishop Job (Getcha) of Telmessos24.Fr Georges Florovsky’s Understanding of the New Mission in the WestIvana NoblePART IV THE BODY OF THE LIVING CHRIST: AN ORTHODOX INTERPRETATION OF THE CHURCH25.Introduction to Georges Florovsky’s The Body of the Living Christ: An Orthodox Interpretation of the ChurchRobert M. Arida26.The Body of the Living Christ: An Orthodox Interpretation of the Church331Georges FlorovskyBibliographyIndex