Orthodox Constructions of the West: Publication

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