Orthodoxy

by Evdokimov, Paul; Clement, Olivier

• ISBN13: 9781565483699
• ISBN10: 1565483693
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-20
• Publisher: New City Pr

Summary

Originally published in 1965, Evdokimov's Orthodoxy presents a synthesis of the essential elements of Orthodox traditions as they appear throughput Church history - revealing the fruit born from the Russian diaspora in Western Europe and the interface of Orthodoxy with both the Christian and atheist West. Evodokimov quotes the 'Father' in order to bring their wisdom to bear on the modern spirit and in modern discourse. Rooting things in the anthropological teaching that 'God became human so that humans might became God,' Evdokimov considers asceticism, mysticism, ecclesiology, the faith of the Church, the prayer of the Church, and Eschaton or 'Last Things.'

Author Biography

Paul Evdokimov (1901-1970) was a well-known writer, professor and lay theologian of the Orthodox Christian Church in France. As professor of moral theology at St. Sergius Orthodox Institute in Paris, a teacher at both the Ecumenical Institute in Geneva and the L'Institut Catholique in Paris, and official Orthodox observer at Vatican II, Evdokimov served as a bridge between the tradition of the Eastern Church and the Churches of the West.

Table of Contents

Preface to 1979 Edition	p. 9
Editor's Preface to the English Edition	p. 15
Historical Introduction
Introduction	p. 17
Hellenism	p. 20
Social Character	p. 21
The Place of Interpretation	p. 22
Theandrism, the Principle of Balance	p. 23
The Awareness of God	p. 24
Mystical Knowledge	p. 25
Efficient Cause and Formal Cause	p. 27
Monasticism	p. 29
The Experience of Ascesis	p. 32
Liturgical Theology	p. 33
Hesychasm	p. 34
Syntheses	p. 37
The Sad Parting of the Ways	p. 38
Slavonic Byzantium	p. 41
Byzantium after Byzantium	p. 45
Pro Domo Sua	p. 50
Anthropology
The Eastern Premisses of Patristic Theology	p. 55
Patristic Theology	p. 56
The Theological Method of the Fathers	p. 61
Anthropology	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
The Biblical Account of Human Nature	p. 71
The Biblical Notion of the Heart	p. 74
The Human Person	p. 76
Freedom	p. 79
The Image of God	p. 84
The Difference Between Image and Likeness	p. 90
Beginnings and Ends	p. 93
The Creation	p. 93
Nature Before the Fall	p. 95
The Fall and the Economy of Salvation	p. 96
The Anthropology of Deification	p. 100
Anthropology, Liturgical or Doxological	p. 103
Asceticism	p. 106
Synergy	p. 108
The Ascetical Life	p. 110
The Passions	p. 112
The Ascetic Way	p. 113
Mystical Experience	p. 116
Theosis and the Holy Spirit	p. 119
Perpetual Prayer	p. 122
Restraint and the Mystical State	p. 123
The Mystic Mountain	p. 126
Ecclesiology
Refining the Question	p. 131
The Visible and the Invisible	p. 131
The Church: Its Origins and Meta-Historical Nature	p. 132
The Church in God	p. 133
The Theandric Connection	p. 134
Institution and Event	p. 134
The Church, a Sacramental Community	p. 135
Eucharistic Ecclesiogy	p. 136
One, Holy	p. 137
'Rock of Offence' (Matt. 16.17-19)	p. 140
The Trinitarian Aspect of Ecclesiology	p. 143
The Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 143
The Filioque	p. 144
The Christological Aspect	p. 148
The Church, the Body of Christ	p. 150
The Pneumatological Aspect	p. 152
The Mariological Aspect of the Church	p. 156
The Cosmic Aspect	p. 161
The Notes of the Church	p. 162
The Unity of the Church	p. 162
The Sanctity of the Church	p. 163
The Catholicity of the Church	p. 164
The Conciliar Structure of the Church	p. 165
The Councils	p. 166
The Apostolicity of the Church	p. 168
The Priesthood	p. 171
The Divine Origin of the Priesthood	p. 171
The Priesthood of Order and the Royal Priesthood	p. 172
The Missionary Action of the Church	p. 172
The Faith of the Church
Doctrine	p. 179
The Apophatic Aspect of Doctrine	p. 180
Development of Doctrine	p. 183
Symbolic Books	p. 183
The Creed	p. 185
The Doctrinal Task of the Councils and their Legacy	p. 187
Canon Law	p. 192
The Bible	p. 194
Reading In Christ: The Orthodox a Priori	p. 194
The Bible and the Tradition	p. 195
Problems of the Inspiration of the Scriptures	p. 198
In Dabiis Libertas	p. 200
Tradition	p. 202
The Prayer of the Church
The Category of the Sacred: Sacred Time, Sacred Space, the Temple	p. 207
The Sacred	p. 207
Sacred Time	p. 210
Sacred Space	p. 216
The Construction of the Sacred: The Temple	p. 218
An Introduction to Icons	p. 222
The Theology of Glory	p. 222
The Martyrology of the Icon	p. 223
The Doctrinal Significance of the 7th Council	p. 223
The Theology of Expression	p. 224
The Fate of the Icon in the West	p. 225
The Theology of Presence	p. 227
Signs and Symbols	p. 229
The Icon and the Liturgy	p. 230
Divine Art	p. 232
Modern Art and the Present State of the Icon	p. 235
Interpretation of the Icon of Rublev	p. 239
The Liturgy	p. 245
Introduction	p. 245
The Liturgy, Type of All Prayer	p. 246
The Content of the Liturgy	p. 247
The Eternal and the Temporal	p. 247
The Dramatic Action	p. 248
The Eucharist	p. 250
The Miracle of the Eucharist	p. 251
The Sacrificial Nature of the Eucharist	p. 254
The Epiclesis	p. 255
The Liturgy	p. 258
The Sacraments	p. 269
Introduction	p. 269
The Eucharist	p. 272
Grace	p. 273
The Mystery of Predestination	p. 275
The Sacrament of Baptism. Entry into the Church	p. 279
The Sacrament of Anointing with Chrism	p. 283
The Sacrament of Confession	p. 294
The Sacrament of Marriage	p. 299
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick	p. 305
The Eschaton or the Last Things
The Church in the World and the Last Things	p. 309
The Church and the World	p. 309
The Holy Spirit in the Last Times	p. 312
The Theology of History	p. 321
The Church, the Eschatological Community	p. 326
Eschatology	p. 330
The Heavenly Expectation of the Saints	p. 335
The Parousia	p. 336
Mysterium Cruris	p. 339
Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy	p. 341
The Historical Dimension	p. 342
The Eschatological Plane	p. 344
The Importance of Ecumenism Today	p. 346
An Urgent Task	p. 346
The Charismatic Dimension of the Church	p. 349
The Orthodox Presence	p. 350
Holiness	p. 351
Index	p. 355
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