Orthodox Constructions of the West
Edited by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou
A Fordham University Press Publication
Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought (FUP)
Table of Contents
Searching for an Inter-disciplinary and Theoretically-informed Approach to the Orthodox Naming of the Other
George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou
Perceptions and Realities in Orthodox-Catholic Relations Today: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Robert F. Taft, SJ
Byzantines, Armenians, and Latins: Unleavened Bread and Heresy in the Tenth Century
Tia Kolbaba
“Light from the West”: Byzantine Readings of Aquinas
Marcus Plested
From the “Shield of Orthodoxy” to the “Tome of Joy”: The Anti-Western Stance of Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1641-1707)
Norman Russell
The Burdens of Tradition: Orthodox Constructions of the West in Russia (late XIX-early XX cc.)
Vera Shevzov
Florovsky’s Neopatristic Synthesis and the Future Ways of Orthodox Theology
Paul Gavrilyuk
Eastern “Mystical Theology” or Western “Nouvelle Théologie”?: On the Comparative Reception of Dionysius the Areopagite in Lossky and de Lubac
Sarah Coakley
The Image of the West in Contemporary Greek Theology
Pantelis Kalaitzidis
Christos Yannaras and the Idea of “Dysis”
Basilio Petra
Religion in the Greek Public Sphere: Debating Europe’s Influence
Effie Fokas
Shaking the Comfortable Conceits of “Otherness”: What Can Political Science Offer to the Study “Orthodox Constructions of the West”
Elizabeth Prodromou
Eastern Orthodox Constructions of “the West” in the Post-Communist Political Discourse: the Cases of the Romanian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Lucian Turcescu
The Heresy of Anti-Papism: An Orthodox Perspective
John Panteleimon Manoussakis
(In)Voluntary Ecumenism: Dumitru Staniloae’s Interaction with the West as Open Sobornicity
Radu Bordeianu