The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church

ANDREW MELLAS is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at St Andrew's Theological College and Honorary Associate in the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of emotions in Byzantium and the liturgical intersections of hymnody and hagiography. He is the author of Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody (Cambridge, 2020). BRONWEN NEIL FAHA is Professor of Ancient History in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University, Sydney, and head of the Religion section of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Her research focuses on eastern Roman cultural history from the fourth to tenth centuries, with an emphasis on east-west church relations, letters, gender and hagiography. She is the author of Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad (400–1000 CE) (2021), and co-author with Pauline Allen of Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity: The Christianisation of a Literary Form (Cambridge, 2020) and Conflict and Negotiation in the Early Church (2020).

'Christianity was born in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, and spread throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. Its fundamental institutional structures owed much to the Mediterranean world, and its thought-world to Greek philosophy. The Church inherited these institutional and intellectual structures and transformed them. All forms of Christianity nowadays are affected, more or less, by this legacy. The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church explores the many facets of this Church: its relation to the State, its ways of worship and everyday life, its beliefs about Christ and the Church, about its relationship to the world around it—and beyond: the heavens and the afterlife. The final chapters introduce the reader to the lasting legacy of the Byzantine Church, no longer simply a religious 'orient', but present and active in the 'west'. All this is presented by a stunning cast of scholars, both established authorities and younger voices. It will prove indispensable.' Andrew Louth, FBA

• Contributors; Abbreviations; Foreword Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew; Introduction Andrew Mellas and Bronwen Neil; Part I. Outlines of the Byzantine Church: 1. Emergence of the Byzantine church Brian Croke; 2. Hellenism, philosophy and the church David Bradshaw; 3. The church in the desert and the city John Chryssavgis and Andrew Mellas; 4. Women in the Byzantine church Sarah Gador-Whyte; 5. Emperors and Bishops Justin Pigott; 6. Dissidence and persecution Ryan Strickler; 7. Schism in the Byzantine church George Demacopoulos; Part II. Theology: 8. Defining the faith in councils Richard Price; 9. Christology Bogdan Bucur; 10. Mariology Mary Cunningham; 11. Pneumatology Doru Costache; 12. Anthropology Ashley Purpura; 13. Eschatology Bronwen Neil; 14. The Byzantine church and the west: theological debates and the attempts at resolution Edward Siecienski; Part III. Experiencing the Liturgy: 15. Liturgy at the great church after Iconoclasm Daniel Galadza; 16. Experiencing scripture Roland Betancourt; 17. Hymnology Damaskinos Olkinuora; 18. Iconic subjects Rossitza Schroeder; 19. Hagiography Albrecht Berger; 20. Architecture Vasileios Marinis; Part IV. Living the Faith: 21. Monasticism Olympia Nelson; 22. Charity and almsgiving Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen; 23. Pilgrimage Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos; 24. Singing and emotion Georgia Frank; 25. Heaven and hell Angeliki Lymberopoulou; Part V. The Late Byzantine Church and its Afterlife: 26. The Late Byzantine church Daniel Stauffer and Alexis Torrance; 27. The holy mountain Kosta Simic and Leonela Fundic; 28. Ecumenical, ethnic and national orthodoxy: articulating church structures and identities in Byzantine and post-Byzantine times Vasilios Makrides; 29. The Byzantine rite today Stefanos Alexopoulos; 30. Orthodoxy, the church and the reception of Byzantium Przemysław Marciniak.