Between Being and Time

Andrew T.J. Kaethler is academic dean and assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College.Sotiris Mitralexis is assistant professor of philosophy at the City University of Istanbul and visiting research fellow at the University of Winchester.

It is in Christ that time and eternity, history and metaphysics, hold together. This Christological conviction—and the relational understanding of reality that it entails—unites Andrew T.J. Kaethler and Sotiris Mitralexis’s extraordinary collection of essays. By no means do the authors agree on every point. But the relational ontology of love on display in this book flows from a shared, ever-deepening movement into the triune God of history.

• Part I. Rethinking Ontology within History1. Ontology versus Fideism: Christianity’s Accountability to History and SocietyHaralambos Ventis 2. Ontology, History and Relation (schesis): Gregory of Nyssa's Epektasis Giulio Maspero 3. Syn-odical Ontology: Maximus the Confessor’s Proposition for Ontology within History and in the Eschaton Dionysios Skliris 4. The Liturgy behind Liturgies: The Church’s Metaphysical Form David W. Fagerberg 5. The Kantian “Two-images” Problem, Its Lesson for Christian Eschatology, and the Path of Maximian Analogy Demetrios Harper Part II. Beyond Being and Time: Eschatological Hermeneutics6. Zizioulas and Heidegger: “Eschatological Ontology” and HermeneuticsMatthew Baker 7. What Does “Rising from the Dead” Mean? A Hermeneutics of Resurrection Maxim Vasiljevic8. Ecstatic or Reciprocal Meaningfulness?: Orthodox Eschatology between Theology, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis Nikolaos Loudovikos Pa