Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

Andreas Andreopoulos is Reader in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Winchester. He has founded and directs the only fully distance Master’s degree in Orthodox Theology. His publications include Gazing on God: Trinity, Church and Salvation in the Orthodox Church (2013); This is My Beloved Son: The Transfiguration of Christ (2012); The Sign of the Cross: The Gesture, the Mystery, the History (2006); Art as Theology: From the Postmodern to the Medieval (2006); and Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology and Iconography (2005).Graham Speake is founder and Chairman of the Friends of Mount Athos and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His publications include Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2nd edition, 2014), for which he was awarded the Criticos Prize, the Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, 2 vols (2000), and a number of edited volumes on Athonite history and spirituality. He was received into the Orthodox Church on Mount Athos and is a spiritual child of Metropolitan Kallistos.

• CONTENTS: Message from His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew – Address by His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain – Andreas Andreopoulos/Graham Speake: Introduction – Part 1: Tributes to Metropolitan Kallistos – Frances Jennings: The Spiritual Father – Nikolai Sakharov: The Monk – Stephen Platt: The Pastor and Bishop – Marcus Plested: The Teacher – Ephrem Lash: The Translator and Writer – Andrew Louth: The Theologian – Andreas Andreopoulos: An English Orthodox Bishop? – Part 2: Papers in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos – Sebastian Brock: An Early Syriac Exposition of the Holy Mysteries – Maximos Constas: ‘Nothing is Greater than Divine Love’: Evagrios of Pontos, St Maximos the Confessor, and the Philokalia – Hilarion Alfeyev: St Symeon the New Theologian and the Studite Monastic Tradition – Elizabeth Jeffreys: On the Annunciation: Manganeios Prodromos, no. 120 105 – John Chryssavgis: Philokalia: A Vocabulary for Our Time – Nikolaos Hatzinikolaou: The Desert, Hesychia, and Ascesis: Then and Now – John Behr: Patristic Texts as Icons – Rowan Williams: Deification, Hypostatization, and Kenosis – Elizabeth Theokritoff: Priest of Creation or Cosmic Liturgy? – Dimitri Conomos: C. S. Lewis and Church Music – Kallistos Ware: Fifty-Four Years as an Athonite Pilgrim