Taken together, these two volumes collect seventy-five essays written by Professor Andrew Louth over a forty-year period. Louth's contribution to scholarship and theology has always been significant, and these essays have been collected from journals and edited collections, many of which are difficult to access, and are here made available over two thought-provoking and wide-ranging volumes.
Volume I focuses on a variety of topics in Patristics, or early Christian studies. In these essays, Louth discusses early Christian thinkers from the early second century through to Photios of Constantinople in the east (in the tenth century) and Thomas Aquinas in the west (in the thirteenth century). Constant figures who appear at the heart of these volumes are Maximos the Confessor (c.580 - 662) and John of Damascus (676-749).
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1. The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology2. The Use of the Term idioc in Alexandrian theology from Alexander to Cyril3. Ignatios or Eusebios: Two Models of Patristic Ecclesiology4. On Being a Christian in Late Antiquity: St Basil the Great between the Desert and the City5. St Gregory the Theologian and St Maximus the Confessor: The Shaping of Tradition6. St Gregory the Theologian and Byzantine Theology7. 'From Beginning to Beginning': Continuous Spiritual Progress in Gregory of Nyssa8. St Makrina: the Fourth Cappadocian9. Evagrios: The 'Noetic' Language of Prayer10. Evagrios on Anger11. Augustine on Language12. St Augustine's Interpretation of the Transfiguration of Christ13. Love and the Trinity: St Augustine and the Greek Fathers14. 'Heart in Pilgrimage': St Augustine as Interpreter of the Psalms15. Pagan Theurgy and Christian Sacramentalism in Denys the Areopagite16. 'Truly visible things are manifest images of invisible things' (Ep. 10): Dionysios the Areopagite on knowing the invisible17. The Reception of Dionysios in the East up to Maximos the Confessor18. The Reception of Dionysios in the East from Maximos the Confessor to Gregory Palamas19. Dionysios the Areopagite: the Unknown God and the Liturgy20. St Maximos the Confessor between East and West21. From Doctrine of Christ to Icon of Christ: St Maximos the Confessor on the Transfiguration of Christ22. Eucharist and Church according to St Maximos the Confessor23. The Views of St Maximos the Confessor on the Institutional Church24. Virtue Ethics: St Maximos the Confessor and Aquinas compared25. St Maximos' Doctrine of the Logoi26. Mystagogy in St Maximos27. The Lord's Prayer as Mystagogy from Origen to Maximos28. St Maximos' Distinction between logos and tropos and the Ontology of the Person29. Pronoia in the Life and Thought of St Maximos the Confessor30. Sophia, the Wisdom of God, in St Maximos the Confessor31. The Doctrine of the Image of God in St Maximos the Confessor32. The Holy Spirit in the Theology of St John Damascene33. John of Damascus on the Mother of God as the link between Humanity and God34. The Doctrine of the Eucharist in the Iconoclast Controversy35. Photios as a Theologian36. Knowing the Unknowable: Hesychasm and the Kabbalah37. Aquinas and Orthodoxy
Andrew Louth is Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He is the editor of the journal Sobornost, and editor, with Professor Gillian Clark, of the series Oxford Early Christian Studies and Oxford Early Christian Texts.
Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic & Historical Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
John Behr is Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen.
