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Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality
Av Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
484 kr
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Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ radically from those of other Christian …
Welcoming Finitude
Toward a Phenomenology of Orthodox Liturgy
Häftad, 2020
422 kr
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What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our emotions or dispositions? How is liturgy …
In the World, Yet not of the World
Social and Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Av Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, John Chryssavgis
Inbunden, 2009
560 kr
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew speaks to a contemporary world about, human rights, religious tolerance, international peace, environmental protection, and more.In the World, Yet Not of the World represents a selection of major addresses and significant messages as well as public statements by His …
Speaking the Truth in Love
Theological and Spiritual Exhortations of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Av Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, John Chryssavgis
Inbunden, 2010
630 kr
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The second of three volumes of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's writings, this book includes a selection of major addresses and significant statements by the "first among equals" and spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians. Whereas the first volume covered …
On Earth As in Heaven
Ecological Vision and Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Av Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, John Chryssavgis
Inbunden, 2011
560 kr
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Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed alarming environmental degradation—climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the pollution of natural resources—together with a failure to implement environmental policies and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor. As this new volume of …
Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation
Av John Chryssavgis, Bruce V. Foltz
Häftad, 2013
531 kr
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Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues …
Orthodox Constructions of the West
Av George E. Demacopoulos, Aristotle Papanikolaou
Häftad, 2013
531 kr
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The category of the "West" has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be the essence of Orthodoxy and, thus, ironically has become a constitutive aspect of the modern …
Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe
Inbunden, 2014
744 kr
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Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of …
Dialogue of Love
Breaking the Silence of Centuries
Inbunden, 2014
330 kr
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In 1964, a little-noticed albeit pioneering encounter in the Holy Land between the heads of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church spawned numerous contacts and diverse openings between the two "sister churches," which had not communicated with each other for centuries.Fifty years later, …
Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine
Av George E. Demacopoulos, Aristotle Papanikolaou
Inbunden, 2016
1518 kr
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Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu AwardThe collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox …
Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine
Av George E. Demacopoulos, Aristotle Papanikolaou
Häftad, 2016
470 kr
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Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu AwardThe collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox …
Liturgical Theology After Schmemann
An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur
Inbunden, 2018
1367 kr
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While only rarely reflecting explicitly on liturgy, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) gave sustained attention to several themes pertinent to the interpretation of worship, including metaphor, narrative, subjectivity, and memory. Inspired by his well-known aphorism, "The symbol gives rise …
God, Hierarchy, and Power
Orthodox Theologies of Authority from Byzantium
Inbunden, 2017
891 kr
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In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the challenging questions: "Why is hierarchy maintained as the model of organizing the church, and what are the theological …
Liturgical Theology After Schmemann
An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur
Häftad, 2018
602 kr
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While only rarely reflecting explicitly on liturgy, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) gave sustained attention to several themes pertinent to the interpretation of worship, including metaphor, narrative, subjectivity, and memory. Inspired by his well-known aphorism, "The symbol gives rise …
Colonizing Christianity
Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade
Inbunden, 2019
1565 kr
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Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the …
Colonizing Christianity
Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade
Häftad, 2019
475 kr
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Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the …
Dynamis of Healing
Patristic Theology and the Psyche
Av Pia Sophia Chaudhari, Ashley M. Purpura m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
386 kr
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This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these truth claims show up in healing …
Dynamis of Healing
Patristic Theology and the Psyche
Av Pia Sophia Chaudhari, Ashley M. Purpura m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
951 kr
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This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these truth claims show up in healing …
Fundamentalism or Tradition
Christianity After Secularism
Av Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos
Häftad, 2019
389 kr
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Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist—all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of what it means to think and live as …
Fundamentalism or Tradition
Christianity After Secularism
Av Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos
Inbunden, 2019
951 kr
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Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist—all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of what it means to think and live as …
Welcoming Finitude
Toward a Phenomenology of Orthodox Liturgy
Inbunden, 2019
1509 kr
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What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our emotions or dispositions? How is liturgy …
Garb of Being
Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity
Av Georgia Frank, Susan Holman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
900 kr
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This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and …
Orthodox Readings of Augustine
Av Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos
Häftad, 2020
372 kr
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Orthodox Readings of Augustine examines the theological engagement with the preeminent Latin theologian Augustine of Hippo in the Orthodox context. Augustine was not widely read in the East until many centuries after his death. However, following his re-introduction in the thirteenth century, the …
Anarchy and the Kingdom of God
From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back
Av Davor Džalto
Inbunden, 2021
1465 kr
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Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of "anarchism" both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power, coercion, and oppression, Davor Džalto advances human …
Anarchy and the Kingdom of God
From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back
Av Davor Džalto
Häftad, 2021
422 kr
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Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of "anarchism" both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power, coercion, and oppression, Davor Džalto advances human …
Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity
Inbunden, 2021
1465 kr
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Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies focused on women's religiosity have overlooked Orthodox populations, while studies of Orthodox practice (operating within the dominant theological, historical, and sociological …
Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity
Häftad, 2021
422 kr
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Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies focused on women's religiosity have overlooked Orthodox populations, while studies of Orthodox practice (operating within the dominant theological, historical, and sociological …
Between Heaven and Russia
Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia
Inbunden, 2022
1237 kr
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How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin's New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans …
Between Heaven and Russia
Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia
Häftad, 2022
361 kr
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How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin's New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans …
Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality
Av Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1644 kr
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Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ radically from those of other Christian …
